Jessica Jones star calls superhero part her dream role
LOS ANGELES -- The star of Netflix hit Jessica Jones said Tuesday she knew she had found her dream job even before she read...
Two women
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...
Rapper Drake releases long-awaited album Views
WASHINGTON -- Drake, one of the most successful rappers of the moment, last week released his long-awaited new album, Views -- an ode to...
Hungry in Cavite
By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman
Book
Food Holidays
Published by Colors Integrated
Travel Media, Inc.
HUNGRY is the heart that yearns for an adventure, and so is the...
Radiohead reveal new song ‘Burn The Witch’
LONDON -- Experimental British rockers Radiohead released a video for a song entitled “Burn The Witch” on Tuesday but kept fans hanging on for...
Electric Word Life: The Rapture of Prince
By Jessica Zafra
I was dreaming when I wrote this, forgive me if it goes astray. I’ve been trying to write about Prince since the...
Twisted sister
By Noel Vera
Television
The Spiral Staircase
Netflix
Robert Siodmak’s The Spiral Staircase, an oddly neglected noir, begins with an act of shared voyeurism: people gathered together at...
Irish writer O’Connor and the strange music of unhappy families
TOULOUSE, FRANCE — When the Irish novelist Joseph O’Connor reads his books aloud he almost sings them. Like his sister, the singer Sinead O’Connor,...
Millennium sequel to be written in American detective fiction style
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — Swedish author David Lagercrantz, who took over the Millennium crime series from the late Stieg Larsson, said the fifth book will...
‘Oh no, not again’: Why do stars keep dying in 2016?
Washington — “Prince, surely not? Can we turn this year off and turn it back on when it stops being a giant exit for...
11.22.63: James Franco goes back in time to save JFK
The Binge
Jessica Zafra
From Chris Marker’s sublime short film La Jetée to James Cameron’s Terminator, from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure to Back to the...
Drive
By Noel Vera
JAFAR PANAHI’S Taxi would be remarkable just for existing — it’s the third feature the filmmaker has done since the Iranian government...