Tag: film
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Crazy Rich Asians: A Movie Review
In all honesty, I was skeptical about this movie. I’ve seen books like Crazy Rich Asians before. To me, books about rich people are all about first world problems and backstabbing melodrama better suited for a reality show. My question going into this movie: “How I was going to relate to anything?” The answer was […]
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A Few Favorite Moms in Movies and Books
by Cristina Montes It is yet another indicator of how little we appreciate mothers. When we in the Pinay Voices team were asked to list down our favourite mothers from movies and novels, a lot of us needed time to think. But if moms are awesome in real life, there’s no reason they can’t be […]
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Hidden Figures: A Girl Power Movie with a Heart
Behind NASA’s great achievements in the Space Race are the unrecognized contributions of the West Computers, a group of African-American women who toiled on the mathematical computations that made the important missions possible. The movie Hidden Figures tells the story of three of them: Katherine Johnson (played by Taraji Henson), a genius who calculated the […]