Deadma Walking

Deadma Walking is 2017 Musical Comedy Drama, Starring Edgar Allan Guzman, Joross Gamboa, Dimples Romano, Candy Pangilinan, Nico Antonio. Directed by Julius Alfonso and Produce under T-Rex Production. Deadma Walking is an official entry to the 43rd Metro Manila Film Festival.

The film tells the story of a terminally ill gay, John (Joross Gamboa) who enlists the help of his best friend, Mark (Edgar Allan Guzman) to fake his own death. He would attend his wakes disguised as a woman to see and hear what his friends would say about him. Conflicts arise when John’s estranged sister, Mary (Dimples Romano) visited his wake.

Deadma Walking has already showed us that it’s not just anothergay movie. Although it has been compared to last years MMFF entry ‘Die Beautiful’. In Deadma Walking, the main character is still alive although is dying of cancer while in Die Beautiful, the main character is already dead. It’s funny as it is dramatic, Joross Gamboa and Edgar Allan Guzman gave us a solid performances. The Film also features cameos of several big name actors, the most notable of which is Gerald Anderson, Piolo Pascual and Eugene Domingo.

The film also teaches us importance of family, friendship, love and happiness. A unique and sincere portrayal of something comedic. Although the premise is presented as funny it is emotional especially since were at the subject of death, the film however made it a light wit topic,assuring us it would be enjoyable to watch, not expecting to watch such simple but great masterpiece.

Both leads, Joross Gamboa and Edgar Allan Guzman despite being masculine men in real life convincingly portrayed gay characters. Both actors have already portray gay characters before therefore it is no surprise that this film is one of their best portrayal yet. The film won 2nd prize at the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature in 2016.

If your in for a roller coaster of emotions of laughing and crying, then this movie is a much for you.

This Time

Jadine fans are once again super excited for another sure-fire hit coming from James Reid and Nadine Lustre. The romantic movie, “This Time” will be the fifth movie that features the country’s most lovable and most sought after love teams of today. Following their previously ended drama series on ABS-CBN “On the Wings of Love”, this exciting romantic film of the year has so much to offer to all hopeless romantics out there. This is in fact James Reid’s and Nadine Lustre’s first time to work together in a movie as a real-life couple, after they recently confirmed to the public about the real score between the two of them.

In “This Time”, James Reid will be playing the role of Coby Martinez, the special childhood friend of Ava Buhay, played by Nadine Lustre. The story basically revolves around the long-distance special friendship between Coby and Ava who meet and spend time together during Coby’s summer vacation only. As the plot progresses, it is then revealed that the two of them come to realize something about their mutual understanding. Things could have been easier between them if not because of their respective commitments and goals in life. Hence more and more Jadine fans are now getting curious of how will this love story going to end.

Directed by Nuel Crisostomo Naval and written by Mel Mendoza-Del Rosario, “This Time” will be hitting the big screens on May 4, 2016. This is surely one of Viva Cinema’s box office films and most talked about movies for this year. Other reputable actors joining James Reid and Nadine Lustre include Bret Jackson, Issa Pressman, Donnalyn Bartolome, and Candy Pangilinan. There is no doubt this 2016 romantic movie comes with a lot of surprising twists and turns that Jadine fans should never dare to miss.