Please Pause: Filipino TV and Film

We're SPOILER-FREE in another edition of The Binge! We start with Disney and Pixar's latest movie, Turning Red! Bakit nga ba isa na naman 'tong movie na okay sa critics pero medyo mixed reviews sa audiences? Masama bang mag-hulk out into a giant red panda? Then from the latest to late to the party, we talk about Ted Lasso na finally, napanood na rin namin. Listen in and find out how Ham liked this...

SPOILER-FREE in the first part of this episode! Dahil alam namin na meron pa sa inyong magdo-downl--we meant, manonood pa lang. Finally! We're talking about Spider-Man: No Way Home! In this episode, pinag-usapan namin ang first time namin after two long years (na manood ng sine). Napunta rin sa ilang realizations about Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy and The Amazing Spider-Man movies. Ang tanong ni...

May movie na naman si Ryan Reynolds sa Netflix! Pero this time parang wala silang marketing gimmick. No matter, The Adam Project is number one on Netflix Philippines! Directed by Shawn Levy and co-starring Walker Scobell, Zoe Saldaña, and Catherine Keener, this time travel movie also reunited Jennifer Garner (na favorite ni Ham) and Mark Ruffalo! Listen in and find out kung bakit magkaiba feelings...

SPOILER-FREE as always in this edition of The Binge! Well, maybe minor spoilers sa Love is Color Blind. OK, maybe some major spoilers? Pero dun lang. Whatever! We get into a bunch of stuff we recently watched starting with DonBelle and the highest grossing Filipino film of 2021, Love is Color Blind! Ham sets the record straight in the face of Mike's allegations regarding her feelings about this mo...

SPOILER-FREE tayo sa first part ng episode na 'to pero if you haven't watched Peacemaker yet, it's about time you do! Ayaw na sana namin gawan ng episode ang series na 'to but it's just so much fun! James Gunn and John Cena outdid themselves this time as they've produced one of DC's best so far. We may have disagreed with our take on Cena's showing in The Suicide Squad but there's no question that...

The power of the binge! SPOILER-FREE! We're back with another packed episode as we go through the movies and series we recently watched. Sinimulan namin sa pinakabagong Korean hit series na All of Us are Dead! The problem is, only one of us have seen it and technically, we're not even sure if we can call it watching it. So pumunta na lang kami sa Korean movie that quickly shot up the Netflix Phili...

Director Marla Ancheta is on Please Pause! Direktor lang naman siya ng Netflix Philippines chart-toppers Finding Agnes and Ikaw, dagdag mo pa a couple of music videos and over a hundred TV ads. She took us through her "day job" of being a TV commercial director and the relationship between the client, the ad agency, and the production team. Kaya naman ang dami rin naming tanong like magnanay ba ta...

If hindi pa kayo tapos, don't worry, the first part of our episode is SPOILER-FREE! What happens when a K-drama expert and an avid K-pop fan talk about the most controversial Korean TV series in recent memory? NOT THIS EPISODE! Because even if we're neither of those things, that won't stop us from talking about Snowdrop! Starring Blackpink Jisoo and Jung Hae-in as star-crossed lovers ala Crash Lan...

If we sounded like we're having too much fun in this episode, rest assured, nakikiramay po kami sa mga kinaliwa, inagawan, at niloko! This week, we're talking about the first week of ABS-CBN's latest teleserye starring Jodi Sta. Maria, Zanjoe Marudo, and Sue Ramirez, The Broken Marriage Vow! As always, we have our Best and Worst and Necessary Nitpicks. For the sake of comparison, pinanood din nami...

Masterpiece or disaster? We're talking about the thing that has divided Marvel fans and critics more than the Sokovia Accords did for the Avengers, Chloe Zhao's Eternals! At dahil hindi namin siya pinanood sa sinehan, we finally got to see it in the comfort of our couch dahil lumabas na rin siya sa Disney Plus. Marvel sure put a lot into this movie with an ensemble cast including the likes of Gemm...

SPOILER-FREE ang kalakaran as always on this edition of The Binge! Join us as we talk about the movies and series we recently watched. Unang pinag-usapan si Andrew Garfield pero hindi dahil sa Spider-Man: No Way Home, but because of his recent win as Best Actor in the Golden Globes Award for his role as Jonathan Larson in Tick, Tick... Boom! And in the process of talking about passion, we contempl...

Can you believe that it's been 20 years since the first Harry Potter movie came out? Kaya naman naki-reminisce kami with Dan, Rupert, and Emma in the HBO Max special, Harry Potter 20th Anniversary - Return to Hogwarts! We talk about how we first got into the Wizarding World--from actually reading the books, to navigating concerns of demonic influence, at pagpapabili ng hardbound na libro dahil ang...

A SPOILER-FREE opening to 2022 mga ka-PAUSE as we talk about our recent binge! But first, we thank our loyal listeners this past year with a special shout out in this episode. Maraming salamat for supporting Please Pause! Pa-click naman ng affiliate links namin! Then onto JP Habac and Jollibee's short film starring Bea Alonzo, John Lloyd Cruz, Chicken Joy, and Jolly Spaghetti, ang One True Pair--i...

Happy Hawkeye holidays to all! Ito na ata ang closest that we'll get to an MCU Christmas special and Marvel delivered a lot of presents under the giant Christmas tree! Hailee Steinfeld makes her debut as Kate Bishop in this arrow-splitting adventure! After some surprises here and there, we ask--ano kayang kahihinatnan ng inter-streaming platform multiverse of madness? We also delve into some Holly...

Director Miko Livelo is on Please Pause! We talked to one of the founders of the Philippine Giant Monster Defense Institute as Voltes V meets The Office sa ginawa nilang short film ni Mihk Vergara for QCinema 2021, Mighty Robo V! If you weren't able to catch it, sayang! Hinihintay din namin na maging available siya ulit somewhere, somehow para mapanood namin ulit! We also asked Direk Miko about hi...

SPOILER-FREE na kwentuhan na naman about our recent binge! We start with Taylor Swift's short film starring Sadie Sink and Dylan O'Brien, All Too Well: The Short Film! Patulong na lang sa pag-pronounce ng Gyllenhaal. Next up, we talk about the series starring Penn Badgley and Victoria Pedretti na talaga namang #couplegoals, You Season 3. Pinag-usapan din ang sci-fi epic starring Timothee Chalamet...

Sinong kumuha ng MOA Globe??? We're talking about Netflix's biggest movie to date, Red Notice! Starring a trio of highly paid actors, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot, this movie helmed by director Rawson Marshall Thurber shot up to number one on Netflix's charts. We get into buddy comedies, on-screen chemistry, and bad acting. Nabanggit din ang fascination ni Mike with the...

Kakapanood lang namin ng Shang-Chi! And we talked about it SPOILER-FREE in the first part of this episode! We're very excited for one of Disney's biggest releases post cinema shutdown kaya naman we watched it twice! Listen and find out what we thought of Destin Daniel Cretton's Marvel movie starring Simu Liu, Awkwafina, Tony Leung, Meng'er Zhang, and Michelle Yeoh. We try to answer if this martial...

Director Erik Matti breaks down On the Job: The Missing 8 down to the little details! Sinagot ni Direk and marami naming tanong—from the long continuous shots, to news clippings graphics, to the dates and our election year. Pinag-usapan din ang relevance ng Nike shoes! Naisingit pa ang alternate endings ng Honor Thy Father. If it was just up to us, we can just listen to Direk Erik as he talks abou...

Director Erik Matti is on Please Pause! And ang dami niyang kinuwento! We started off with bringing Michiko Yamamoto's scripts to life and refusing to settle in filmmaking, the Philippine film industry then and now, and making movies in the midst of a pandemic. He also touched on the changing local entertainment landscape with the advent of the age of online streaming. Napag-usapan din ang A Girl...

Hong Banjang! Alam naming kinilig din kayo kay Dr. Yoon Hye-jin and Chief Hong Du-sik so let's talk about Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha! If you're not done with this series yet (WHY?!?), don't worry, the first part of our episodes is always SPOILER-FREE. Naki-chismis lang kami with the stars of the number one K-drama on Netflix na sila Shin Min-a and Kim Seo-ho and nalula kami sa presyo ng signature clothe...

SPOILER-FREE on the latest edition of The Binge on Please Pause! Hold on to your marbles dahil punong-puno na naman ang episode na 'to! After watching Alice in Borderland, somehow Ham was able to fight through her aversion to head shots at natapos niya rin finally ang Squid Game! We got into how this phenomenon swept through the Netflix charts across the globe, as it became the streaming platform'...

SPOILER-FREE sa first part ng FUN-yetang episode 'to as Please Pause talks about Erik Matti and Michiko Yamomoto's On the Job: The Missing 8! Ang dami naming napag-usapan dito—politics, corruption, journalism, pati na rin Omega, Rolex, Breitling, and Panerai. Sama niyo na rin ang kakatapos lang na filing of COCs, the controversial girl group Playgirls, and the best K-dramas we do not know. Somehow...

Director Glenn Barit is on Please Pause! We get to talk to him about his critically acclaimed and multi-award winning film, Cleaners! But first, we asked him about his filmmaking journey—from taking up a totally unrelated course in college, to working in the sound department and as a musical scorer, making short films, then directing his first feature. He gave us details on the film festival exper...

Bago siya mawala sa Netflix Philippines, we've decided to finally talk about Reply 1988! Kung mga slow burn na series lang ang pag-uusapan, this fire is fueled by charcoal briquettes. At 20 episodes with some clocking in at two hours, this is not a breeze to watch but we're more than glad we hung on! For noobs like us, we're lucky this series has been one of our introductions to K-drama. Join us a...