History Con: From pickers to astronauts
Who knew history could be so, well, epic? From Aug. 10-13, stars of popular History Channel and History Channel Asia shows will descend on the...
Disney empire strikes back with new streaming plan
WASHINGTON -- Walt Disney Co. has the potential to shake up the television sector with its plan to offer direct-to-consumer streaming services and take...
Painfully Unfunny Night
By Richard Roeper
Movie Review
Rough Night
Directed by Lucia Aniello
“ROUGH NIGHT” doesn’t begin to cover it.
It’s also “Painfully Unfunny Night,” “Contrived Night,” “Unsurprising Plot Twist Night”...
Award-winning Birdshot opens Cinemalaya 13
MIKHAIL RED’S “coming-of-age thriller” Birdshot opened the 13th Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival at the “peak of the southwest monsoon and unpredictable weather,” as...
Eye of the beholder
By Noel Vera
Movie Review
Kita Kita
Directed by Sigrid Andrea Bernardo
I’M GUESSING the secret to Sigrid Andrea Bernardo’s success with Kita Kita -- the surprise hit...
Taylor Swift shaken and humiliated by groping, mom tells trial
DENVER -- Pop superstar Taylor Swift’s mother recounted before a US jury on Wednesday the moment her “shattered” daughter said she had been groped...
What to see this week
5 films to see on the week of August 11-18, 2017
Finally Found Someone
A STAR CINEMA ROM-COM, Finally Found Someone follows a bride abandoned at the...
At the Mall (08/11/17)
Architecture at Ayala Malls
AYALA MALLS hosts the Artkitektura Festival 2017. A tribute exhibit, MAÑOSA: Beyond Architecture, which was first shown at the National Museum...
Applying Japan’s kodawari to a European restaurant
WHILE THE Japanese have made many contributions to world cuisine, few people realize the intangible contribution of kodawari, the Japanese concept of the relentless...
An elegant Chinese dining experience
THE PHILIPPINES, by virtue of hundreds of years spent trading with China, has never lacked restaurants serving good Chinese food from different culinary regions.
A...
‘Rhinestone Cowboy’ Glen Campbell, 81
WASHINGTON -- Country music legend Glen Campbell, the mellow-voiced “Rhinestone Cowboy” who sold millions of albums over a career that spanned decades, has died...
Battle against China’s fake foods drives new tech frontier
A BOWL of ice cream on a hot day in Shanghai gave American Mitchell Weinberg the worst bout of food poisoning he can recall....