Above the law
By Noel Vera
DVD Review
Spotlight
Directed by Tom McCarthy
There’s a point in Tom McCarthy’s new film where brand new Boston Globe editor Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber)...
Last Recode: definitely worth its price tag
By Alexander O. Cuaycong
IT’S difficult to pinpoint exactly how influential .hack (stylized in lower case and pronounced “dot hack”) has been as a series....
Semi-crouching Tiger
By Noel Vera
AMAZING how under certain circumstances critics’ reactions are so ridiculously uniform, so hilariously predictable down to specific complaints on specific titles. Crouching...
Joan Baez returns to peace theme in first album in decade
NEW YORK — Folk legend Joan Baez last week announced her first album in a decade, a collection of covers that returns to her...
Murakami calls for fight against history revisionism
TOKYO — Haruki Murakami, the Japanese author perennially pegged as a contender for the Nobel literature prize, has called for a fight against historical...
Anomalous
By Noel Vera
DVD Review
Anomalisa
Directed by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson
CHARLIE KAUFMAN and Duke Johnson’s Anomalisa (2015) was based on Kaufman’s “sound play” -- actors...
Good JRPG but lovers of story-driven games should stay away
By Alexander O. Cuaycong
and Anthony L. Cuaycong
Video Game Review
Atelier Firis: The
Alchemist and the
Mysterious Journey
PlayStation 4
THE ATELIER SERIES has always had a soft spot in...
Why luck plays a big role in making you rich
By Ben Steverman
Book Review
Success and Luck:
Good Fortune and
the Myth of Meritocracy
By Robert Frank
Princeton University Press
208 pages
ROBERT FRANK was playing tennis one cold Saturday morning...
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....
DVDs: Norm, Leo, Maggie, Agatha Christie, Veep, and more on home entertainment
LIONSGATE’s family adventure Norm of the North is now in a Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and On Demand. Follow the adventures of Norm, a...
Silver Linings Playbook’s Matthew Quick: when people told him to give up
By Jasmine Agnes T. Cruz
HOW MANY YEARS should one believe in a dream without knowing if it will ever come true?
New York Times best-selling...
Know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em
By Alexander O. Cuaycong and Anthony L. Cuaycong
THERE are a slew of popular free-to-play online card games currently out to tickle the fancy of...