Good JRPG but lovers of story-driven games should stay away
By Alexander O. Cuaycong
and Anthony L. Cuaycong
Video Game Review
Atelier Firis: The
Alchemist and the
Mysterious Journey
PlayStation 4
THE ATELIER SERIES has always had a soft spot in...
Jim James shares the 6 albums that influenced him the most
FOR HIS second solo album, Eternally Even, My Morning Jacket (MJM) frontman Jim James eschews his band’s jammier tendencies and dives even deeper into...
With new album, Eminem finds political voice
NEW YORK — Just how much has America changed since Donald Trump’s election? Eminem, knee-deep in controversy a generation ago for misogyny and homophobia,...
Indie games on sale offer great value for money
By Alexander O. Cuaycong
and Anthony L. Cuaycong
Game Review
Darkest Dungeon
Cooking Witch
Death Road to Canada
PC via Steam
IT’S STEAM’S SUMMER SALE! Held every year during summer,...
Hamilton: The romance of history, rendered in hip-hop
The Binge
Jessica Zafra
WHAT A COMFORT it is after an intense and contentious election to hear a musical that makes you want to give standing...
Bad blood in the claws of literary execs
By Pola Esguerra del Monte
IN THE INK-STAINED manuscripts of the late Edgardo M. Reyes, the man who wrote the magazine serial-turned-novel-turned-award-winning-film Sa mga...
Sherlock fans, collect your New Year’s present.
The Binge
By Jessica Zafra
SHERLOCK fans are among the most patient fans on earth, and they have to be. Since the BBC series created by...
The Bibliophibian’s Backlog: Book lovers are essentially hoarders with better excuses.
By Jessica Zafra
BOOK LOVERS go by many names — bibliophiles, bibliomaniacs, bibliolaters, Larry (McMurtry, the Pulitzer and Oscar-winning author who runs a bookstore and...
Model student
By Noel Vera
DVD Review
The Neon Demon
Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon provokes as many questions as it does responses: is...
Fitz and The Tantrums find pop not a ‘dirty word’
NEW YORK — Fitz and The Tantrums won acclaim with its brand of infectious retro soul but when it came time to write new...
Magnificent obsession
By Noel Vera
MARIO O’HARA’s follow-up project after his World War 2 epic Tatlong Taong Walang Diyos (Three Years Without God, 1976) and producer Armida...
Martyred
By Noel Vera
Video Review
Martyrs
Directed by Pascal Laugier
(Warning: plot and narrative twists discussed in explicit detail)
PASCAL LAUGIER’s 2008 horror film Martyrs deserves respect for taking...