New driver, new car

The Transporter: Refueled AFTER JASON STATHAM starred in three movies playing the eponymous Transporter — Frank Martin, a mercenary who specializes moving goods of all...

Sight | Secret suite

1101 is an innocuous enough number, but whisper this room number to staff members of the Crown Towers Manila in the City of Dreams...

Night of the power trio

By Juaniyo EY Arcellana The band is called Lagkitan and the last Friday night of August belonged to them at the Bar@1951 in Malate (at...

A Disney extravaganza

Disney Live! Mickey’s Music Festival Sept. 1 to 6 Kia Theatre DISNEY LIVE! brings favorite Disney characters to life in Mickey’s Music Festival, a limited run show...

Cinemagraphs feat. the cast of Ang Larawan

The High Life team has been experimenting with cinemagraphs, defined as still photographs with minor moving elements. Take a look at the ones we...

The Fourth Wall

https://youtu.be/sILneY5ZKqY In theater, “the fourth wall” is the artificial boundary that separates the actors from the audience. In this spread, fashion and film collide with...

Four poems

Cirilo F. Bautista, National Artist for Literature. Art and War When I look at abstract art and think of the dead in the war in Iraq, things...

From fantasy to reality: 10 films from the Gallaga-Reyes tandem

The beautiful history of the Gallaga-Reyes tandem summarized in 10 films. Words FRANCIS JOSEPH A. CRUZ It was a decade marked by shifting tastes. From the hard-hitting socially...

Of stages and screens

“It takes a lot of heart and integrity to be a singer. It must be rough to be compared to somebody who just got...

PriMadonna

"She embraces every moment of her life and everybody else just watches her. ...  She’s a Renaissance woman, I find." — Cherie Gil on...

The unsung, ignored half of the Gallaga-Reyes movies

"No matter how highly I think of myself, it’s humiliating to be ignored." — director Lore Reyes, who has been accused of "ruining" Peque...

Science fiction: a ghetto

Real science fiction involves (quoting Brian Aldiss, who attempts to describe the literature): “the search for a definition of man and his status in...