A show for lawyers
THE 2017 film Bar Boys is becoming quite the beloved franchise, with a 2024 stage adaptation and now with a second movie. Unfortunately for me, I didn’t ride the 2017 hype of the first movie, about friends navigating life and law school. In other words, I did not see it.
Why AI could make human jazz popular again
AS A MUSICIAN and music-lover, the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution terrifies me in many ways.
Queen Camilla describes being assaulted by man as a teenager
BRITAIN’S Queen Camilla has described for the first time fighting off an attack by a man on a train when she was a teenager,...
Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of JFK, dies of rare form of leukemia
TATIANA SCHLOSSBERG, granddaughter of the 35th US president, John F. Kennedy (JFK), died on Tuesday after revealing in a November essay that she had...
What are you doin’ New Year’s Eve?
WITH 2025 drawing to a close, Metro Manila is set to mount large New Year’s Eve celebrations. Here is a list of countdown events to choose from for a joyful start to the year ahead, ranging from community-based festivities to giant concerts, DJ-led parties, and festive hotel shindigs.
Metro Manila Film Festival 2025: Beautiful but flawed
I’mPerfect — which bagged the Best Picture award at the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) — is a love story between Jiro and Jessica, two adults with Down Syndrome, an empowering celebration of people that society would consider as flawed.
Metro Manila Film Festival 2025: An insightful picture of annulment
ANNULMENT is an unpleasant subject matter, because it involves the end of a marriage and the (usually) bitter fight of two parties to gain custody of children or properties.
Metro Manila Film Festival 2025: A love story that is so bad
A YOUNG WOMAN named Savannah (a.k.a. Vanna) finds herself torn between two men: bad boy LA (played by Dustin Yu) who picked her up when she was at her worst, and achiever Vic (Will Ashley) who challenges her to be her best.
Brigitte Bardot, icon of French cinema, 91
PARIS — Actress Brigitte Bardot shot to international fame dancing the mambo barefoot in And God Created Woman, her tousled hair and fierce energy...
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.









