Harry Potter as an aswang
By Jasmine Agnes T. Cruz
HARRY POTTER captured the hearts and minds of young readers around the world. Inspired by this series but wanting to...
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...
Bryan Adams goes retro with Get Up album
LOS ANGELES — It has been a long time coming.
Canadian singer-songwriter Bryan Adams says his new album, Get Up, is the ideal follow-up record...
Agatha Christie’s Poirot and Marple: The comfort of the British murder-mystery
The Binge -- Jessica Zafra
MISS JANE MARPLE is a menace to society. Whenever she turns up with that handbag of hers, sniffing around in...
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...
New Elvis album teams king with royal orchestra
LONDON — Priscilla Presley closes her eyes and bites her lip as she listens to a new album of Elvis songs, with the king...
Women in cages
By Noel Vera
DVD Review
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Directed by Chantal Akerman
THE LATE Chantal Akerman’s best-known work and popularly acknowledged masterpiece...
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: 21st century screwball comedy
The Binge
By Jessica Zafra
FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD Kimmy is abducted in front of her house by a cult leader. She spends the next 15 years in an underground...
Janet Jackson returns to channel late brother
CD Review
Unbreakable
By Janet Jackson
NEW YORK — It can’t be easy to be the kid sister of the King of Pop, but Janet Jackson pulled it...
Modern Etiquette: Caution required when dealing with e-mail
By Mary Mitchell
LIKE IT OR NOT, we all are responsible for our own communication. E-mail evokes almost unprecedented cultural and generational challenges.
Why, you ask?...
Intro to Francisco Arcellana’s columns from the Pacific War
By Juaniyo E.Y. Arcellana
THIS MUST BE one of the hardest things, having to write the introduction to this collection of column pieces, book introductions, essays...
You’re the Worst: The romantic comedy for people who loathe romantic comedies
The Binge
By Jessica Zafra
THE FIRST TIME we see Jimmy Shive-Overly, he is taking pictures of his genitals with those cute disposable “Help us make...