Wanggo Gallaga

Screenwriter, HIV advocate, and faculty at the Film Department of the College of St Benilde, Wanggo Gallaga has been writing about movies, television, and theater since 2012. He has written the films Sonata (2013), T'yanak (2014), and co-writer of Open (2019) as well as the digital series Hanging Out (2016) and the documentary HIV Rising: New Gen (2018).

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Let’s Talk about Sex as presented in ‘A Girl and A Guy’

June 24, 2021

The way the film presents sex in such a cavalier manner is both a strength and a weakness.

‘Trese’ Shines Brightly as a Netflix Original Anime Series that is Unapologetically Filipino from Start to Finish

June 11, 2021

Seeing this makes me really proud and validates what I’ve always known: that we have the talent and the stories that can go toe-to-toe with anything that any other country can do.

‘The Woman in the Window’ and a Case of the Unreliable Narrator

May 14, 2021

Had this been released not during the pandemic, and maybe seen in the cinema, it would hit differently.

Bridging Distances: ‘Dito at Doon’ Movie Review

April 1, 2021

What makes this work so much is the incredible chemistry of all its actors, from Janine Gutierrez and JC Santos to the supporting cast.

Unmasking The Media Monster: ‘General Admission’ Movie Review

March 29, 2021

What the film brilliantly illustrates is the dirty tricks that the media isn’t afraid to play to create drama and grab ratings.

Live by the Gun: A Movie Review of ‘Night in Paradise’

March 24, 2021

Jeju Island a popular vacation spot, but in writer and director Park Hoon Jung’s crime drama ‘Night in Paradise,’ it is also the setting of two broken characters whose lives are defined by death.

Jerrold Tarog’s ‘Ang Kabaligtaran ng Gunaw’ is a call to creation

February 15, 2021

Within its 8-minute time frame, the film captures the struggles of the performing arts in the pandemic and how even in the midst of this struggle, they push back and hard.