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...
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...
From ninja to elder statesman: Japan techno king Ken Ishii
TOKYO — Japan’s techno trail-blazer Ken Ishii rocks huge crowds the world over and leads a glamorous, jet-set life — but the superstar DJ...
John Oliver is the voice of sanity for these troubled times
The Binge
Jessica Zafra
EVERY GENERATION has its voice of sanity. In the 1950s when the McCarthy witch hunts threatened the same freedoms it claimed to...
Semi-crouching Tiger
By Noel Vera
AMAZING how under certain circumstances critics’ reactions are so ridiculously uniform, so hilariously predictable down to specific complaints on specific titles. Crouching...
Jeff Buckley legend builds with new posthumous album
PARIS -- Jeff Buckley put out only one album before his death in 1997 but his legend has since steadily grown thanks to posthumous...
The Night Manager: Le Carré Lite, starring Tom Hiddleston
The Binge — Jessica Zafra
DEVOTEES of the spy novelist John le Carré will tell you that there’s prime le Carré — his magnificent Cold...
Not messy at all
By James Glenn M. Gomez
Album Review
This Unruly Mess I’ve Made
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
NOT ALL rapper-producer duos stand the test of time: Will Smith got...
Above the law
By Noel Vera
DVD Review
Spotlight
Directed by Tom McCarthy
There’s a point in Tom McCarthy’s new film where brand new Boston Globe editor Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber)...
Encouraging young readers
By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman
READING is supposedly a physical affair. People are meant to touch, feel, smell, and highlight a book or a...
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,...
The X-Files: The truth should’ve stayed out there
The Binge
Jessica Zafra
NO ONE was more excited about the return of The X-Files than I was. In the 1990s, that show was my life...