Walking Dead’s Sonequa Martin-Green discovers the heavens in new Star Trek series
By Judy Sloane ,
Front Row Features
FIFTY YEARS after Gene Roddenberry’s groundbreaking sci-fi series Star Trek premiered, a new chapter begins with Star Trek: Discovery....
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...
Big data reveals mixed authorship in 17 Shakespeare plays
LONDON — Seventeen plays attributed to William Shakespeare were written in collaboration with other playwrights, according to an edition of his works coming out...
Comin’ around again
By Noel Vera
Video Review
A Ghost Story
Written and directed by David Lowery
I’M NOT a fan of David Lowery’s Pete’s Dragon -- in retrospect the picture...
Delivering a thoroughly stunning experience
THERE was a time when fighting games were little more than button-mashing exercises. Perhaps the relative lack of complexity was due to the genre being in its infancy stage. Perhaps it was borne of the publishers’ intent to be as inclusive as possible. In any case, gamers still found them irresistible for the most part, if for no other reason than because they afforded the opportunity for instant gratification. In comparison to, say, sports titles, fights involved short matches and rematches. Bragging rights were passed on quickly and often, and the speed with which they were earned, lost, regained, and desired anew served only to ramp up the intensity of the competition.
Klandestine
SO GET this -- Ron Stallworth becomes the first black police officer in a large largely white town (the “Jackie Robinson of the Colorado Springs police force” as his superior puts it). He is consigned to the records room, requests a transfer to undercover; sees a recruitment ad for the KKK, dials the number, gets an unexpected voice at the other end, improvises a racist rant, is invited to join the group.
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...
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...
Gameplay flourishes where the story languishes
By Alexander O. Cuaycong and Anthony L. Cuaycong
NIPPON ICHI Software distinguishes itself from other developers by the style of its games. Displaying its strengths...
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...
Netflix scores a bull’s eye with Stranger Things; HBO better do better than Vice...
By Kevin McDonough
OUR RETURN to the 1980s continues with the eight-part drama Stranger Things, now streaming in its entirety on Netflix.
From its title card...
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...