The miracle of Dreyer’s crib
By Noel Vera
DVD Review
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Directed by Preston Sturges
Ordet
Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
(Warning: plot of both The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek and...
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...
DVDs: Norm, Leo, Maggie, Agatha Christie, Veep, and more on home entertainment
LIONSGATE’s family adventure Norm of the North is now in a Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and On Demand. Follow the adventures of Norm, a...
Ubisoft to let game players join Star Trek crew
LOS ANGELES -- French video game giant Ubisoft is poised to satisfy a longtime geek fantasy by letting fans virtually join the crew of...
Bloodline: A family drama gets swamped in the telling
The Binge
Jessica Zafra
FLASH-FORWARD is the new flashback. On every episode of Bloodline, we are reminded that the good son John Rayburn (Kyle Chandler) will...
Heroic lunacy
By Noel Vera
Video
Heneral Luna
Directed by Jerrold Tarog
Jerrold Tarog’s Heneral Luna caps, if you like, the decades-plus quest of Filipino filmmakers to retell the Philippine...
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...
Life of rock superstar Prince celebrated in new comic book
Prince, the innovative, Grammy-winning musician who died of an accidental, self-inflicted overdose of a powerful painkiller in April, is being honored with a comic...
The Hollow Crown: The real Game of Thrones
The Binge
Jessica Zafra
RICHARD III of England has gotten a bum rap for 500 years. He was not a hideous hunchback with a withered arm....
Super natural
By Noel Vera
DVD Review
The VVitch
Directed by Robert Eggers
ROBERT EGGERS’ debut feature The VVitch is suitably chaste and sensual — chaste in that it uses...
The 10 books you need to read this summer
By Barry Ritholtz, Bloomberg View
IF YOU are anything like me, you are probably looking forward to delving into several new and recent book releases...
YA novelist Jennifer Niven makes fans cry
By Camille Anne M. Arcilla
WHEN YOUNG ADULT novelist Jennifer Niven went to the Philippines, she cried as much as her Filipino fans did when...