Reimagined MacGyver assembles team
Television
MacGyver
Thursdays, 9:45 p.m
AXN
HOLLYWOOD — The action series MacGyver, which made a problem-solving star of Richard Dean Anderson in the 1980s, gets a 21st century...
Writer Margaret Atwood gets 2017 Kafka award
PRAGUE – Canadian poet, critic, and novelist Margaret Atwood received this year’s international Franz Kafka literary prize at a ceremony in Prague on Tuesday,...
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...
You’re the Worst: The romantic comedy for people who loathe romantic comedies
The Binge
By Jessica Zafra
THE FIRST TIME we see Jimmy Shive-Overly, he is taking pictures of his genitals with those cute disposable “Help us make...
Modern Etiquette: Caution required when dealing with e-mail
By Mary Mitchell
LIKE IT OR NOT, we all are responsible for our own communication. E-mail evokes almost unprecedented cultural and generational challenges.
Why, you ask?...
Netflix scores a bull’s eye with Stranger Things; HBO better do better than Vice...
By Kevin McDonough
OUR RETURN to the 1980s continues with the eight-part drama Stranger Things, now streaming in its entirety on Netflix.
From its title card...
TV Therapy: Watch your way to better mental health
The Binge
By Jessica Zafra
ARE YOU ANXIOUS, stressed-out, neurotic? Are you haunted by the past, overwhelmed by the present, and worried about the future? Do...
Intro to Francisco Arcellana’s columns from the Pacific War
By Juaniyo E.Y. Arcellana
THIS MUST BE one of the hardest things, having to write the introduction to this collection of column pieces, book introductions, essays...
Why I’m giving up on the increasingly random Walking Dead
By Richard Roeper
“THE Walking Dead Is Finally Getting Its First Totally Nude Zombie” — actual headline on Forbes.com.
Only the most popular and lasting TV...
Fast & furious
By Noel Vera
DVD Review
Love and Friendship
Directed by Whit Stillman
I REMEMBER one night picking up a copy of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice -- waded...
A positive and respectful look at traditional Ifugao culture
By Jonathan Best
Book Review
Ifugao: People of the Earth
Written and edited by Prof. Delfin Tolentino, Jr., Leah Enkiwe-Abayao, Analyn Salvador-Amores, and Marlon Martin
Published by ArtPostAsia...
Carneval
Video
Trouble Every Day
Directed by Claire Denis
Available on YouTube
By Noel Vera
LIKE A MAESTRO poised to perform Claire Denis begins her 2001 genre film Trouble Every...