Far ’nuff
By Noel Vera
DVD Review
Far from the Madding Crowd
Directed by Thomas Vinterberg
THOMAS VINTERBERG’S adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s first real success is, well, middling fair. The...
In praise of Jesus Christ Superstar
By Richard Roeper
“IF YOU’D come today you would have reached a whole nation/Israel in 4 BC had no mass communication.”
In the first nine months...
Silver Linings Playbook’s Matthew Quick: when people told him to give up
By Jasmine Agnes T. Cruz
HOW MANY YEARS should one believe in a dream without knowing if it will ever come true?
New York Times best-selling...
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...
1966 Pink Floyd recording to be released for first time
LONDON -- Legendary British rock band Pink Floyd will next month put out a track that has never before been released since it was...
Lots of rhythm, a few blues
By Alexander O. Cuaycong
and Anthony L. Cuaycong
RIGHT OFF THE BAT, followers of DJMax Technika might see something familiar in Superbeat: Xonic. Little surprise,...
Now out on DVD
The Fall
GILLIAN ANDERSON (The X-Files) and Jamie Dornan (Fifty Shades of Grey) reprise their cat-and-mouse roles in the second season of The Fall, available...
Joan unornamented
THE first film to come to mind watching this stony ground of a picture is Carl Th. Dreyer’s silent film, a wondrous series of gigantic closeups shuffled through at speed, arguably one of the most revered and the best-known version of the story.
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...
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...
Poldark, Agatha Christie, and men without shirts
The Binge — Jessica Zafra
TWENTY YEARS AGO, viewers of the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice gasped as Mr. Darcy, played by Colin Firth,...
American Crime: an introduction to race relations in the USA
The Binge
By Jessica Zafra
IT STARTS with a phone call in the dead of night, then a visit to the morgue where the body of...