Traveling and Eating: Comedians going where everyone has gone before
The Binge
Jessica Zafra
EVERYTHING’S BEEN DONE, the British actor Rob Brydon points out in The Trip to Italy. You can only do it differently. Take...
Lucifer and Damien: Evil needs a hug
The Binge
Jessica Zafra
WE KNOW that evil is at large in the world -- you only have to read the news to be reminded of...
Unforgettable courtroom drama
By Vince Alvic Alexis F. Nonato, Reporter
Book Review
The Best of the Unforgettable Legal Stories
By Aida Sevilla Mendoza
2016, Anvil Publishing, Inc.
Do not be intimated by...
For the love of the game
Book
Philippine Football: Its Past, Its Future
By Dr. Bernardo M. Villegas
Published by the Center for Research and Communication of the University of Asia & the...
The blues challenge
By Tony M. Maghirang
FILIPINO BANDS Bleu Rascals and Brat Pack have got the blues -- and a globally competitive strain at that.
They earned...
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...
The payoff is nothing short of sensational
HAPPY BIRTHDAYS is nothing if not peculiar off the bat. And it wears its strangeness proudly, assured of its capacity to unveil a masterpiece from an empty canvas by handing you the brush. As a truly sweeping god game from the mind of Harvest Moon creator Yasuhiro Wada, it melds its ambition with seemingly simple presentations; the visuals are colorful, if childlike, and accompanied by soothing keyboard acoustics, but its demands are such that a 20-minute tutorial is required for you to get going, and much longer after to experience comfort and confidence in what you’re doing. Once you get the hang of it, however, the payoff is nothing short of sensational.
Women in cages
By Noel Vera
DVD Review
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Directed by Chantal Akerman
THE LATE Chantal Akerman’s best-known work and popularly acknowledged masterpiece...
In praise of Jesus Christ Superstar
By Richard Roeper
“IF YOU’D come today you would have reached a whole nation/Israel in 4 BC had no mass communication.”
In the first nine months...
‘Oh no, not again’: Why do stars keep dying in 2016?
Washington — “Prince, surely not? Can we turn this year off and turn it back on when it stops being a giant exit for...
The beguiling mystery of the unknown
By Corazon A. Ong
RAISED by parents who love literature, Czech scientist and science fiction (SF) writer Julie Novakova, an only child, grew up in...
Snowden, Close to the Enemy, Coming Through the Rye, now out on home entertainment
By Angela Dawson
Front Row Features
FILMMAKER Oliver Stone is no stranger to taking on controversial subject matter and turning it into big screen box-office success....