Moral choices lead to unexpected ends
Video Game Review
PSYCHO-PASS: Mandatory Happiness
PC (via Steam)
By Alexander O. Cuaycong and Anthony L. Cuaycong
At first glance, PSYCHO-PASS: Mandatory Happiness does very little to distinguish itself...
Trump-era Handmaid’s Tale presages totalitarian future
LOS ANGELES — Decades after the release of The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood’s dystopian sci-fi fable and foundational feminist text arrives on television —...
Love never dies
By Noel Vera
Richard Abelardo’s Mutya ng Pasig (Pearl of the Pasig, 1950) at first glance plays like a musical version of Wuthering Heights (Doña...
For Honor is at the mercy of one’s Internet connection
By Alexander O. Cuaycong and Anthony L. Cuaycong
Videogame Review
For Honor
Ubisoft
WITHOUT a doubt, For Honor can be an immersive experience. Boot up the game and...
Fourway
By Noel Vera
I REMEMBER watching Takaw Tukso (directed by William Pascual, written by Armando Lao) in a wretched 16 mm print years ago: the...
Part-biography, part self-help book
Book
My Journey: The Story of an Unexpected Leader
By Maria Rosario “Charo” Santos-Concio and An Mercado-Alcantara
ABS-CBN Publishing
By Zsarlene B. Chua, Reporter
Actress and former TV executive...
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...
‘Speaking up,’ Depeche Mode expects more musicians to sing about world today
LONDON — With lyrics like “We’re going backwards” and “Blame misinformation,” the British electronic band Depeche Mode hopes to “make people think” about the...
An obscenity
By Noel Vera
Review
The Devils
Directed by Ken Russell
I THINK The Devils, Ken Russell’s fifth big-screen feature, is a culmination of his previous works dealing in...
Redefining sexy
By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman
Book
Sexy at Any Age
By Nadine Tengco
Published by Century Tuna
142 pages
HEALTH GURU to the stars, Nadine Tengco, whips up healthy...
Bob Dylan says ‘not yearning for old days’ in latest cover album
Bob Dylan’s new album Triplicate explores American standards from the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s, but the veteran singer-songwriter says that does not mean he...
Depeche Mode return with new album Spirit
DEPECHE MODE is back, releasing its 14th studio album which the British synth-pop musicians describe as “bleak.”
The Syrian conflict and rise of nationalism in...