Thunderbolts*

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Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) is having a full-on existential crisis which she tries to drown out by being busy with work. She pays her adoptive father Alexei/Red Guardian (David Harbour) a visit but he seems to be in a rut himself. When she is sent on one final mission to an OXE Group laboratory on top of a plateau at the middle of a desert, she ends up in a skirmish with Ava Starr/Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), John Walker (Wyatt Russell), Antonia Dreykov/Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko), and a John Doe named Bob (Lewis Pullman). They soon figure out that it has all been a plan hatched by now CIA director Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) who is under investigation at Congress and in a rush to get rid of all loose ends that could serve as evidence against her, which includes them. Little does she know that one human experiment of her secret Sentry project survived and will soon wreak havoc in New York city. In the absence of the Avengers, Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) takes the initiative to form a group to serve as a deterrent, but will they be enough?

Isang Dekadang Resty

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Sa simula ay anim na taong gulang si Restituto Dimaculangan na kilala sa palayaw na Resty ng kanyang mga kamag-anak at mga kaibigan. Silang dalawa lamang ng inang si Aling Tonya ang laging magkasama sa maliit nilang tahanan gawang ang kanyang ama ay laging dumadayo sa mga malalayong pook bilang manggagawa. Bagamat paminsan minsan lang siya makita ng anak ay malapit pa rin naman ang loob ng dalawa sa isa’t-isa ngunit ang ina talaga ni Resty ang talagang karamay niya. Isang araw ay maglalaho na lamang ang ina at mag-iiwan ng sulat sa anak. Ito ang magiging dahilan ng paglaki ni Resty sa bahay ng kanyang lola kasama ang nakatatandang kapatid na babae ng ina. Dito sa bagong liblib na barangay lalaki si Resty at mamumulat sa mga katotohanan ng buhay, pagkakaibigan, pag-ibig at pati na rin ang halaga ng pakikisama sa mga kadugo hanggang siya ay magdiwang ng kanyang ika-labing anim na kaarawan.

Romeo and Juliet

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Once upon a time in Verona there lived two star-crossed lovers belonging to feuding families. Romeo is a Montague who gatecrashes a party thrown by rival clan the Capulets. Upon seeing the Capulet’s young daughter Juliet, Romeo falls in love at first sight and the two flirt with each other. One thing leads to another and the young lovers end up seeking help from Friar Lawrence to have them wed in secret. Unfortunately, fate has something different in store for the newlyweds as Romeo gets implicated in the murder of Juliet’s cousin Tybalt and is consequently banished from the realm. At the same time, Juliet’s father, knowing nothing about her secret marriage, arranges to give her hand to a kinsman of the Prince of Verona, a young noble named Paris. Juliet once again turns to the friar for help. The friar, well versed in herbology, concocts a sleeping potion and hatches a plan so the two lovers could elope. Will lady luck be on their side this time around?

Ainda Estou Aqui

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Rubens Paiva (Selton Mello) spends much of 1970 as a family man living an idyllic beachfront life at Leblon in Rio de Janeiro. He used to be a congressman but was one of the political casualties of the 1964 coup d'état. When the Swiss ambassador is kidnapped, worry permeates through Paiva’s social circles, and the horror comes true when he is arrested one night at the family home, never to be seen again. His wife Eunice (Fernanda Torres) and one of their daughters Eliana (Luiza Kosovski) are also taken into custody before being released days later. As if dealing with the loss of her husband were not hard enough, Eunice faces the grim prospect of raising their five children alone, all while never surrendering the fight to hold the government accountable for what happened not just to her husband but also to the many victims of political persecution during Brazil’s darkest moments.