Endo (2007)

Depicting a social problem without pontificating
By BUTCH FRANCISCO

WITH all our concerns in this world, do we even bother to pause and think about the circumstances in life of those people who wait on us in restaurants, the sales clerks who get the correct size and shade of shoes that we buy in department stores and those young food attendants who take our orders in burger joints? Yes, those people we snap at when they bungle up on the job. Read complete review

Dead-end fate
By LITO B. ZULUETA

JADE Castro’s “Endo” is a totally revealing and very effective depiction of the plight of “end-of-contract” workers, who are forever consigned to contractual status by a global economy in which the profit bottom line is considered an absolute. Read complete review