Picking up the pieces
Book
Broken Mirror: Inside a Chinese Marriage
By Aurora Teo Mei Ling and Coylee Gamboa
By Zsarlene B. Chua
While the title — Broken Mirror — might give...
Bryan Adams goes retro with Get Up album
LOS ANGELES — It has been a long time coming.
Canadian singer-songwriter Bryan Adams says his new album, Get Up, is the ideal follow-up record...
Last holdout
PAUL SCHRADER’s latest feature First Reformed — his 23rd directing job — is a tiny feature shot around Brooklyn and Queens in only 20 days, on a budget of roughly three and a half million dollars. It’s also arguably his best work to date, or if not his best then somewhere up there.
A flawed masterpiece
By Alexander O. Cuaycong
THERE’S SOMETHING to be said about StarCraft. This real-time strategy game was released by Blizzard in March 1998 to critical acclaim,...
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...
Value for money proposition
By Anthony L. Cuaycong
CONSIDERING the thematic foundations of Oceanhorn: Monster of the Uncharted Seas, you wouldn’t be wrong to argue that it harks closely...
The Wave, How to Get Away with Murder, Workaholics, more on home entertainment
By Angela Dawson
Front Row Features
INSPIRED by true events, an inescapable tsunami engulfs a seemingly idyllic Norwegian tourist destination in The Wave now available on...
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...
Not messy at all
By James Glenn M. Gomez
Album Review
This Unruly Mess I’ve Made
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
NOT ALL rapper-producer duos stand the test of time: Will Smith got...
Papa don’t preach
By Noel Vera
DVD Review
Toni Erdmann
Directed by Maren Ade
MAREN ADE’s Toni Erdmann on paper sounds like that most tiresome of tales: a free spirit goosing...
Tale spin
By Noel Vera
Video Review
The Breadwinner
Amazon
NORA TWOMEY’s animated film The Breadwinner (adapted from the children’s novel by Deborah Ellis) is a gorgeous tapestry of 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...