`Tol Movie | Easter Eggs & Suprises

02.06.2019 – For those who rarely watch Filipino movies in the Philippines there are some rare gems out there that are hardly noticed. Due to the decline of Philippine cinema since the late 1990s, but that is slowly has been a constant change in the 2010s with the independent films starting to be more relevant than the mainstream produced movies. It is like the local komiks scene where new creators have taken the risk to bring out original material thanks in part to Komikon an annual event happening three times year. But that doesn’t equate to how the movie industry would have the same resurgence. `Tol is a buddy film which the word translates to a slang word for sibling as what you call your friend “bro” which is a play on words as a pun where the three main characters are employed at a “Toll Gate” in a fictional suburb of San Laan. The film is directed by Miko Livelo, if you see his name in the byline a couple of months back to 2018 he also was the man behind the lens for “I Love You to Death” one of his two mainstream films. `Tol is a movie about three close-knit friends (Arjo Atayde, Ketchup Eusebio, and Joross Gamboa) that faced the challenges of their friendship when one of their childhood crushes returns home named Elena (Jessy Mendiola). It’s one of the underrated Filipino films that was released last 30 January 2019 and had a red carpet premiere a few days earlier.