Sherlock fans, collect your New Year’s present.
The Binge
By Jessica Zafra
SHERLOCK fans are among the most patient fans on earth, and they have to be. Since the BBC series created by...
Strings on me
By Noel Vera
Television Review
Jessica Jones
Netflix
MELISSA ROSENBERG’s TV adaptation of Brian Michael Bendis’ R-rated comic book Alias, featuring one Jessica Jones (Kyrsten Ritter in the series),...
5 books that put some life in the Dismal Science
By Noah Smith
ANYONE’s list of best books of the year is going to be incomplete and biased. Mine, for example, is weighted toward books...
Marvel’s Jessica Jones
The Binge
By Jessica Zafra
SUPERPOWERS are one of the less interesting elements in Marvel’s Jessica Jones. They’re very useful, and they account for the heroine’s ability...
The Freak : A Chaplin masterpiece that never was
CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY, SWITZERLAND — A large crate tucked away in a musky storage room reveals a treasure: a pair of meticulously crafted wings covered with swan...
Playing games while caught in traffic
Television
Cash Cab
Tuesdays, 8:50 p.m.
AXN
By Joseph L. Garcia, Reporter
IF YOU’VE ever raised your fist at the heavens when a cab driver has refused to take...
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Overachieving New Yorker abandons the big time to follow Pinoy ex to...
The Binge
Jessica Zafra
DOCTORS and aswang are the two things most often associated with Filipinos on prime-time American TV. In the ’80s hospital drama St....
Deadwood: Guns, Goons, Gold, and Genius
The Binge
Jessica Zafra
“Pain and damage don’t end the world. Or despair, or fucking beatings. The world ends when you’re dead. Until then you’ve got...
That gum you like
By Noel Vera
DAVID LYNCH and Mark Frost’s murder mystery/spiritual horrorshow/police procedural/goofball soap opera Twin Peaks debuted on ABC Network April 8, 1990 and television...
Miracle stories
By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman
BOOK
Beyond All Barriers: Coincidence or Miracle?
By Flor Gozon-Tarriela and Butch Jimenez
Published by Conquest for Christ Foundation, Inc.
IT WASN’T PART...
Loving Doorstops
The Binge
By Jessica Zafra
LITERATURE is incompatible with the information age. The digital world demands speed, accessibility, connectivity, user-friendliness, interactivity. Reading requires slowness. It asks you...
Bless my homeland forever
Video
The Man in the High Castle
Amazon
By Noel Vera
Frank Spotnitz’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s classic alternate-history dystopia The Man in the High Castle is...