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If Wishes Could Kill (A Moview)

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

What will you do if you will have a phone application that can grant you a wish? The catch is, after the wish is granted, you will have 24 hours to live.

This is the new series released in Netflix entitled, If Wishes Could Kill, and the directions is, if you got a wish, you should use the Girigo app, write a saju (This a traditional Korean fortune-telling system, often called the “Four Pillars of Destiny,” based on an individual’s birth year, month, day, and time) and make your wish as you record yourself in the app.

The only weird thing is that once your wish is granted, a timer is going to appear in your phone and you only have that time until you kill yourself, or that’s what everyone will see when you finally get a 10 seconds remaining of that timer.

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The Art of Sarah

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Hermès, Dior, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Cartier, Rolex and Tiffany & Co, are just some of the luxury brands dominating the luxury market. If one has a collection of any of these brands, it’s already consider an investment, especially Hermès, which the exclusivity is so special that buyers cannot just buy it by walking in the store but instead, getting invited to buy, not only that, you will have to accept whatever they will offer you because you cannot choose the color, leather or even the design, if they offer you one bag, you’re lucky if that’s close to whatever you’re looking for, if not, then you will have to settle buying the exact bag you wanted through a third party seller only to pay double or maybe triple the price in the store, like I mentioned, investment.

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The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call (A Moview)

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

If you’ve spent half of your life watching Grey’s Anatomy, House, ER The Resident, Chicago Med, Doctors, Hospital Playlist, Dr. Romantic and many other Medical TV dramas, then you will know that we have this standard when it comes to these kinds of dramas. We aim for clarity, not only just about the medical terms but we also need to have the clear picture of the context, how did it happened and also we need to learn form it, and this I believe the samples I mentioned were considered as the standard.

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Squid Game 2: A Moview

Rating: 3 out of 5.

In all fairness, we have been talking in this blog how korean dramas are significantly different from any other series, just like the Squid Game series; who could’ve known that the games you play when you’re a kid can be deadly? Well, not necessarily deadly, but for those who watched the series, you understand why I wrote those lines.

Squid Game is a series about people who needs money and suddenly they agreed to be in a game where they will win billions of money in exchange to playing children’s games which they have knows ever since they were kids the only catch is that, only one can win and every time they miss a round, they’d be killed, this is how the game worked all throughout the series. People getting killed every time they fail in the game. The main character Seong Gi-hun was lucky enough to pass and win all the games. But since he lost all the people he became friends with during the games, he wanted to make use of his price money to find the people behind these selfish-people-killing games.

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Can’t Buy Me Love: Something New To The Standards (Series Review)

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

If there’s so much more to look forward to movies and tv series, it is the new plots and standards for Philippine Cinema and Series, I’m proud to say that from the movies released for the MMFF (Metro Manila Film Festival) last year, there’s a lot of big changes to the plots, the character build ups and cinematography. Filipino production has exerted efforts to catch up with the standards set by Korean TV series and Movies for the past few years.

This year, Star Magic (A popular celebrity agency and production in Philippines) has gone to lengths unimaginable, releasing so many TV Series that are best to compare to some of the Korean Dramas we have watched in the past. First of all, I would love to speak highly about the recently completed series Senior High, Starring Andrea Brillantes, playing the role of twin girls who entered an a elite school only for one of them to die and one to investigate the whole incident.

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Back To Basics…

Okay, not all of my avid moview readers know that I am also into reading books. Well, I have a long break from reading books…more like a 10-year-gap kind of break. I got busy with life, that’s how it is. although there are also times that I was able to read books through audiobooks, so it’s not actually a good to nothing break. I still had a chance to read some new books through listening to their audiobook versions. But this 2024, I am trying to convince myself that I really need to go back to reading because why not? Especially now that people are finally returning to the reading paperback and hard bounds.

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Avatar: The Last Airbender Review

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Aang! Yes, you know it! From Nickelodeon, the famous cartoon has released its live action this 2024. We all know Aang as the Avatar, we have seen its cartoons in 2005, to my memories, it had 3 seasons and it was a kid friendly cartoon.

Avatar is a story of a world where 4 elements lead the balance of life, Air, Water, Land and Fire, these elements create the balance that the world of Avatar needs and there comes the Avatar, the only creature who can bend all the the elements, making him/her the leader of all elements. But when the last Avatar died, The Fire Nation took over and conquered other elements’ kingdoms, ruling the whole world as if their own. Killing all the element benders that can possibly become the next Avatar. But one remained and lived for 100 years.

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Bitch X Rich

Well, there’s that. Another school setting Korean drama is out on Netflix and this time around, this is not your ordinary school drama, but rather, it is one of the most relatable Korean drama that was released last 2023. We’ve all seen Penthouse, which was really good and also Celebrity which depicts the whole rich and popular life of celebrities, while this new series entitled … Continue reading Bitch X Rich

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The Night Has Come Review

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

They said that one game can change your life but what if the game not only changes lives but also takes life itself? This drama released last December 4th of 2023 is actually banging the suspense/thriller genre yet again. The story is about a group of students who got stuck alone during a trip without their teachers. They were left alone in a school like facility which was supposed to be a retreat. A mysterious message asking them to join a mafia game got them hooked only to discover that this game is not just a game but a real game that can affect all of their lives.

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Percy Jackson and The Olympians Review

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

Okay, we’ve loved Logan Lerman as Percy and we have been waiting for the next movie since like forever, and that gives me an utter disappointment that they will never continue that movie series. But now, Disney, has come to refresh our minds and decided to remake Rick Riordan’s books and do a longer tale than the movie. Directed by Pierre Gill and Jules O’Loughlin another ship is going to sail for our favorite character Percy Jackson.

Percy Jackson is a story about a demi-god, who have never known his real identity until creatures have been trying to get him and one day, his mother told him everything sent him to camp half blood. But the real story is that he has to prove Zeus that he isn’t the lightning thief or else, destruction will come.

I have the chance two watch the first three episodes and the series may have been a little different from the movie but I think since this is a tv series, they did justice on how they can actually make this enjoyable on each episode they release. If you compare the movie and the tv series with the books, the movie was closer than the tv series, maybe because they had to choose some elements that can make the series go a little longer however, if you read the book, of course, you’ll get a little confused. You know me, I do love comparing books against their adaptations and so, that’s what we will do.

Sorry for the spoilers, but yes, we need to tackle some of it.

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