Bill Clinton is bungling his publicity tour. But how’s the book?
FROM the book industry’s perspective, the existence of The President Is Missing makes perfect sense.
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...
The children are
By Noel Vera
DVD Review
The Brood
Directed by David Cronenberg
INTERESTING to chart the course of David Cronenberg’s career as if it were a pathology, the coursing...
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...
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 revisionism...
A fantastically fun title
By Alexander O. Cuaycong
and Anthony L. Cuaycong
Videogame Review
Prey
PlayStation 4
IN 2006, Human Head Studios released Prey, a run-and-gun shooter, for the PC and XBox...
After techno and street art, Berlin tackles graphic novels
BERLIN, GERMANY -- Better known for its electronic music and street art, Berlin is now also home to a budding graphic novel scene in...
Year after album, Frank Ocean drops mellow new track
NEW YORK -- Frank Ocean, the introspective singer who has thumbed his nose at music industry conventions, has unexpectedly released a new song, a...
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...
Gender bender
LONDON — Scottish-born author Ali Smith has received a number of honors for her gender-bending novel How to be both that explores issues of...
A wonderful blast from the past
WHEN producer Souhei Niikawa and principal programmer Yoshitsuna Kobayashi set out to make Disgaea: Hour of Darkness from scratch, they had no idea that it would stand the test of time. True, they were determined to meet the objectives set forth by publisher Nippon Ishi Software; they aimed to come up with a role-playing game that both adhered to popular mechanics and pushed the envelope in terms of execution. Even as they succeeded in doing so, however, they could not have envisioned an outcome that exceeded their highest expectations.
For a few hours of distraction
By Alexander O. Cuaycong
BY WAY of background for the uninitiated: Project Shrine Maiden is a collection of manic-shooter video games published by Team Shanghai...