by Eleo Billet
The penultimate movie to star Filipina-American actress Bb Gandanghari, this adaptation of Carlo Vergara's cult graphic novel delivers a queer and utterly entertaining spectacle of grand gesture of love and self-acceptance.
Ada is a Pinoy transgender woman who works as a beautician with her assistant Didi, another trans woman, in a small country town. Even though the former is the guardian of her niece Aruba, she does not feel fulfilled since she longs for acceptance as a woman in the capital. Didi regularly fantasizes about Dodong, the handsome man next door. Meanwhile, Ada always gets rejected by her greedy partners.
Just as Ada is desperate to find love, she is hit on the head by a strange pink meteorite. Ada, confused despite the encouragement of Didi and Aruba, swallows it and then utters the word inscribed on it: “Zaturnah”. She then turns into a voluptuous redheaded...
The penultimate movie to star Filipina-American actress Bb Gandanghari, this adaptation of Carlo Vergara's cult graphic novel delivers a queer and utterly entertaining spectacle of grand gesture of love and self-acceptance.
Ada is a Pinoy transgender woman who works as a beautician with her assistant Didi, another trans woman, in a small country town. Even though the former is the guardian of her niece Aruba, she does not feel fulfilled since she longs for acceptance as a woman in the capital. Didi regularly fantasizes about Dodong, the handsome man next door. Meanwhile, Ada always gets rejected by her greedy partners.
Just as Ada is desperate to find love, she is hit on the head by a strange pink meteorite. Ada, confused despite the encouragement of Didi and Aruba, swallows it and then utters the word inscribed on it: “Zaturnah”. She then turns into a voluptuous redheaded...
- 3/19/2023
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
When it comes to “Big Brother,” Peter Salmon has skin in the game as the chief creative officer of Endemol Shine, which makes and sells the format. But back when it hit British screens, in 2000, he was at the BBC, and the show aired on rival pubcaster Channel 4. It quickly overshadowed the Beeb’s own attempt at TV-meets-social-experiment, “Castaway,” an altogether more sober show.
“We saw ‘Big Brother’ and it just did it properly and was the human experiment we imagined we might have done ourselves. And like everyone else, we were transfixed,” Salmon says. “The fact you could watch it unfold it in front of your eyes was and is an abiding principle. I remember it well. Everything changed at that point.”
Produced by John de Mol’s Endemol (years before the company aligned with Shine), the show started out in the Netherlands in 1999, on Rtl’s Veronica channel.
“We saw ‘Big Brother’ and it just did it properly and was the human experiment we imagined we might have done ourselves. And like everyone else, we were transfixed,” Salmon says. “The fact you could watch it unfold it in front of your eyes was and is an abiding principle. I remember it well. Everything changed at that point.”
Produced by John de Mol’s Endemol (years before the company aligned with Shine), the show started out in the Netherlands in 1999, on Rtl’s Veronica channel.
- 9/16/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
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