A game to try again, and again, and again
By Anthony L. Cuaycong
WHEN BLAZING STAR was introduced in the late ’90s, arcades were already replete with shoot-em-ups. In fact, it could be reasonably...
Your Weekend Guide (September 7, 2018)
THE G-FORCE Project 2018 Sembreak Dance Workshop will be held at the G-Force Dance Center, Expansion Wing of Festival Mall, on Sept. 15, 16, 22, 23, 29, and 30 for Batch 1, and Oct. 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, and 21 for Batch 2.
A game for both brains and brawn
VIDEO GAME REVIEW
Yakuza Kiwami
PlayStation 4
By Alexander O. Cuaycong and Anthony L. Cuaycong
EVEN FOR THOSE familiar with the Yakuza franchise, Yakuza Kiwami can come as a...
Memory play
MICHAEL Almereyda’s Marjorie Prime (2017) adapts Jordan Harrison’s Pulitzer-nominated play to the big screen in a small way, and it’s marvelous. Eighty-five year old Marjorie (Lois Smith, who played the role in two previous stage productions) suffers the initial symptoms of Alzheimer’s; to help her deal with the memory loss, her daughter Tess (Geena Davis) and son-in-law Jon (Tim Robbins) have installed a “Prime” — a hologram-projected Artificial Intelligence (AI) — representing Marjorie’s husband Walter (Jon Hamm) when he was a relatively young 40.
Do you remember when…?
By Anthony L. Cuaycong
FROM THE OUTSET, The Longest Five Minutes presents anything and everything unlike most other Japanese role-playing games (JRPG) on the Nintendo...
The Crown returns
By Mira Catherine B. Gloria
Online Editor
Television
The Crown
Netflix
“THE WORLD is changing and no one is prepared for what’s about to happen.” This was how award-winning...
Happy 30th Birthday, Ferris Bueller
By Richard Roeper
FOR THE RECORD: No, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is NOT my favorite movie of all time.
I’ve been hearing that one for at...
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...
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...
Old favorite gets an update
By Anthony L. Cuaycong
It would be an understatement to argue that Metal Slug was an unqualified hit when it first came out 21-and-a-half years...
After techno and street art, Berlin tackles graphic novels
BERLIN, GERMANY -- Better known for its electronic music and street art, Berlin is now also home to a budding graphic novel scene in...
Coldplay releases piano ballad in surprise new music
NEW YORK — Coldplay last week released a piano ballad in surprise new music by the English rockers to mark frontman Chris Martin’s 40th...