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Daredevil ratchets up the bloody intensity in Season 2

The Binge — Jessica Zafra

DAREDEVIL, the vigilante of Hell’s Kitchen, New York, is not the biggest badass in this season of the Netflix series that bears his name. He’s not even the second. More like the fourth or fifth. However you may feel about comic book adaptations — and there are people who will not watch comic book adaptations because they have fixed notions about grown-up behavior — you will find yourself agreeing that Daredevil has the best and most brutal fight scenes in the business. They’re not just cleverly choreographed (by Philip J. Silvera) or wonderfully photographed (by Martin Ahlgren) or thrillingly edited, they look like they hurt.

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Grieve, smash, dance — Gyllenhaal’s Demolition has it

NEW YORK — In the movie Demolition, actor Jake Gyllenhaal loses his wife in a traffic accident, pours his heart out to a vending machine company, and smashes up his home with a sledgehammer.

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Wrangler seeks new True Wanderer in travel contest

AMERICAN DENIM BRAND Wrangler is continuing its search for biking and travel enthusiasts “out to fulfill their passion on the open road” through its Asia-Pacific-wide competition “True Wanderer.”

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Industry threatens nearly half of natural heritage sites: WWF

PARIS — Almost half of all natural World Heritage Sites, including the Great Barrier Reef and Machu Picchu, are threatened by industrial activities such as mining, oil exploration and illegal logging, conservation group World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) warned on Wednesday.

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Bad news: Cholesterol drug fails to improve heart health

WASHINGTON — An experimental drug that greatly increases levels of “good” cholesterol has no effect on heart health, a comprehensive clinical trial found, leaving researchers shocked and disappointed.

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Meat Loaf back with album, tour

NEW YORK — Hard rock chart-topper Meat Loaf has announced a release date for a new album and an extensive tour of Canada, returning to a busy schedule after a string of health scares.

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Suggested by current events

By Zsarlene B. Chua

BASED on the events that rocked the country three years ago which led to the imprisonment of three senators and a businesswoman, Adolfo Alix, Jr.’s Whistleblower is sure to strike a chord among millions of Filipinos who were glued to their televisions and newspapers as the story of one of the biggest political scandals in the country’s history unfolded.

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Rudy Fernandez and Heneral Luna at Cinema ’76

A RETROSPECTIVE of the films of Rudy Fernandez will be shown at the Cinema ’76 Film Society micro-theater, from April 8 to 15.

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Good news: Testosterone may lower heart attack risk in older men

MIAMI — Older men with clogged arteries who took testosterone therapy seemed to have a lower risk of heart attacks than men who did not take the hormone, a study suggested on Sunday.

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Seagull poo posing problem at Dublin beach

DUBLIN — A surge in seagull droppings is fouling up the water at a popular Dublin beach, Ireland’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on Tuesday.

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Les Miz Manila: Worth more than a song

By Johanna D. Poblete

Theater review
Les Miserables

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Harper Lee created the Greatest American Hero

By Stephen L. Carter, Bloomberg View

SOME YEARS AGO, I added To Kill a Mockingbird to the syllabus of my course on Ethics in Literature. I teach in a law school, and the students in the seminar were as hard-bitten and hypercritical as one would expect. Most of the works we read they trashed from one end to the other, often with the easy-going savage hauteur of the young intellectual. But not Mockingbird. They treated the classic with a respect bordering on awe. Prompting them to criticize it was as successful as prompting an Evangelical to criticize the Bible.

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