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...

By Noel Vera Television Annihilation Netflix METEOR flashes across the sky, strikes base of lighthouse; Special Forces husband presents himself to his wife after an absence of two...

By Noel Vera Video Paradise Inn Directed by Celso Ad. Castillo YouTube No subtitles CALL CELSO AD. CASTILLO’s Paradise Inn his inversion (and perversion if you like) of Lino Brocka’s...

The National Book Development Board and the Manila Critics Circle have announced the winners of the 35th National Book Awards. The following is the...

DVD Review Some Came Running Directed by Vincente Minnelli By Noel Vera (Warning: plot twists and narrative discussed in detail) Vincente Minnelli’s Some Came Running (adapted from the James...

The Binge By Jessica Zafra Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Derek Jacobi are two of the most esteemed British actors of stage and screen. Theirs are...

The Binge By Jessica Zafra YOU WOULD BE forgiven for thinking that the new ABC series Quantico was the talent portion of a beauty contest. It...

By Angela Dawson Front Row Features FILMMAKER Oliver Stone is no stranger to taking on controversial subject matter and turning it into big screen box-office success....

By Alexander O. Cuaycong IT’S difficult to pinpoint exactly how influential .hack (stylized in lower case and pronounced “dot hack”) has been as a series....

By Noel Vera (WARNING: story and plot twists discussed in detail) Alan Moore’s The Killing Joke is generally considered the classic Joker comic book, Sam Liu’s...

CONSIDERING that Metal Max Xeno is just the second in the series to be released in the West after Metal Saga on the PlayStation 2, it’s hard to believe that 27 years have passed since the original Metal Max made its way to the Nintendo Family Computer. And how the title evolved from concept to fruition is a story in and of itself. Following the dismal sales of Metal Max 4: Gekko No Diva (3DS, 2013) and of the mixed reception to Metal Max: Fireworks (smartphone, 2015), publisher Kadokawa Games saw fit to swing the pendulum back to consoles and green-lit the latest iteration for the PS4.

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...