A Haunting in Venice is Kenneth Branagh’s 20th film — what do we make...
By Benjamin Kooyman
IN AN essay on Kenneth Branagh, screenwriter Scott Frank recalls meeting the future star and director of his screenplay Dead Again (1991) and wondering...
USA Today is now hiring a Beyoncé reporter after posting a Taylor Swift job
FIRST it was Taylor Swift. Now it’s Beyoncé.
Fresh off a job ad for a reporter to cover Swift and her Eras tour, Gannett Co....
Family of late US billionaire agrees to return looted Cambodian artefacts
THE FAMILY of late American pipeline billionaire George Lindemann has agreed to return 33 looted artefacts to Cambodia, according to the US Attorney’s Office,...
Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard bring Hollywood to TIFF amid strikes
TORONTO — Actors Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard brought Hollywood glamour to the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for their family drama Memory amid...
Ethan Hawke taps Flannery O’Connor’s fiction to tell her story in Wildcat
TORONTO — Director Ethan Hawke took a deep dive into the fiction of the late American author Flannery O’Connor for his new film Wildcat,...
Entertainment News (09/15/23)
Murder mystery A Haunting in Venice now showing
THE LATEST movie adaptation starring Agatha Christie’s world-famous detective Hercule Poirot is now screening in Philippine cinemas...
From wedding rituals to fancy distilleries, Asia is taking over the world’s whisky market
IF YOU’RE invited to a wedding in Southern China you might see couples perform an unexpected ritual. First their hands are bound together, then the pair imbibe a shared toast of Scotch whisky. It’s an invariably heart-warming symbol of shared destiny that might seem to hark back to ancient Celtic lore.
The Way, according to Ninong Ry
SOCIAL MEDIA darling Ninong Ry (Ryan Reyes in real life) was presented as Knorr Professional’s first ambassador in the Philippines in an event at Makati’s Mess Hall on Sept. 7. How did a guy cooking (sometimes) in an undershirt get there?
Polish your tubas and your beer goggles, because Oktoberfest is rolling into town
THEY’RE PULLING OUT all the stops on Oct. 19 to 21: they’re bringing in beer from Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan (the Bavarian State Brewery of...
Dining In/Out (09/14/23)
UNTIL Oct. 5, restaurants at Newport World Resorts celebrate ube (purple yam) with the YAM it up! Ube-licious Feast.
Taylor Swift racks up trophies at MTV’s Video Music Awards
POP superstar Taylor Swift dominated MTV’s annual Video Music Awards on Tuesday, adding nine trophies to her collection as she claimed the top prize...
French wine output falls with sharp contrasts between vineyards
PARIS — Wine production in France is expected to fall 2% this year, with major disparities between regions after some vineyards were severely hit...