Manila’s Finest bags most awards at MMFF; I’mPerfect wins Best Picture
RAYMOND RED’S crime drama Manila’s Finest was the big winner at this year’s Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF), garnering a total of eight prizes.
It...
Metro Manila Film Festival 2025: Not my story, but why do I cry?
WE USUALLY CRY when watching movies because something there happened to us, or someone we know — or at the very least, the film presents a premise that might remotely hit close to home.
Metro Manila Film Festival 2025: A boring apocalypse
PLANES DROPPING OUT of the sky, families becoming insolvent, fires breaking out everywhere; the world coming undone.
Metro Manila Film Festival 2025: Slick but shallow
This 17th installation of Shake, Rattle, & Roll delivers good ol’ jumpscares (I screamed twice) and passable plots, but sputters towards the end.
Perry Bamonte, keyboardist and guitarist for The Cure, 65
LOS ANGELES — Perry Bamonte, keyboardist and guitarist in The Cure, has died at 65, the English indie rock band confirmed through their official...
Metro Manila Film Festival 2025: A tragic, compelling slow burn
THIS HISTORICAL crime thriller revisits the sepia tones of a romanticized golden age in Philippine history with an all-star cast — and arrives at a powerfully bleak conclusion.
Home Alone’s ‘Wet Bandits’ are medical miracles
By Adam Taylor
THE festive movie season is upon us, and one of my perennial favorites is Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. I will die...
Louvre museum installs security bars on balcony used in October’s heist
FRANCE’S Louvre museum on Tuesday installed security bars on the balcony that burglars used to break in and steal some of the crown jewels.
Four...
Austrian painter Arnulf Rainer dies at 96
AUSTRIAN artist Arnulf Rainer has died at the age of 96, Austrian news agency APA reported on Sunday.
A versatile and often provocative exponent of...
Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God
VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was...
Manami Resort celebrates the holidays in coastal elegance
Manami Resort, a luxury coastal sanctuary in Sipalay, Negros Occidental, is inviting guests for the holiday festivities as it transforms the resort into a coastal wonderland featuring curated...
Instead of ham, how about Seafood Paella for Noche Buena?
A FEAST of the senses with its serving of rich flavors, Seafood Paella (Paella de Marisco), a popular Spanish dish which originated from the...