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Missed Connections is a film that makes a one-minute scene stretch for 10 minutes with an excessively irritating performance from the female lead, a story that feels more like it belongs to a YouTube video than a movie, and a runtime that drags along for almost 2 hours when it could well have been wrapped in less than 15 minutes. It is surprising to see Netflix produce such a film that struggles throughout its runtime, from the script to the visuals and music. Missed Connections seems like an amateur effort which would still have worked if there was some honesty in its storytelling. It is more sketchy than it is revealing; it doesn’t even manage to look “cinematic,” as termed by many tutorial videos online, and it dies a slow death at its own hands with its underwhelming aesthetics. If cinema is a language, this is the kind of film to which...

There’s no stopping Mikhail Red right now. Just days after we shared the first images for the Filipino filmmaker’s upcoming zombie shocker Block Z, we now get an exclusive first look at the teaser trailer for his teen abduction thriller, Dead Kids. Written by Red’s younger brother Nikolas, Dead Kids marks the 27-year-old’s first foray into dark comedy. It tells the story of a gang of beat-down high schoolers who plot to kidnap the class jock, who happens to be the son of a corrupt politician, and hold him to ransom. Produced by Globe Studios, and boasting a gutsy young cast that includes Khalil Ramos, Vance Larena, Kelvin Miranda, Jan Silverio, Gabby Padilla, Sue Ramirez and Markus Paterson, Dead Kids is just about...

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