Unforgettable courtroom drama
By Vince Alvic Alexis F. Nonato, Reporter
Book Review
The Best of the Unforgettable Legal Stories
By Aida Sevilla Mendoza
2016, Anvil Publishing, Inc.
Do not be intimated by...
Ignition
By Noel Vera
Television
Twin Peaks
Premiere Part 1-8
July 9, 1:30 p.m.
(WARNING story to be discussed in detail -- though how comprehensible the details may be is...
Rihanna’s Anti scores Billboard 200 top spot
NEW YORK -- Rihanna’s new album, Anti, officially took the top spot on the Billboard 200 album charts on Monday, a week after 1...
‘Troubled times’: Green Day takes on Trump again
NEW YORK -- Punk rockers Green Day renewed their attack Monday on president-elect Donald Trump, warning of dangers ahead for the world in a...
‘Speaking up,’ Depeche Mode expects more musicians to sing about world today
LONDON — With lyrics like “We’re going backwards” and “Blame misinformation,” the British electronic band Depeche Mode hopes to “make people think” about the...
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...
Memory play
MICHAEL Almereyda’s Marjorie Prime (2017) adapts Jordan Harrison’s Pulitzer-nominated play to the big screen in a small way, and it’s marvelous. Eighty-five year old Marjorie (Lois Smith, who played the role in two previous stage productions) suffers the initial symptoms of Alzheimer’s; to help her deal with the memory loss, her daughter Tess (Geena Davis) and son-in-law Jon (Tim Robbins) have installed a “Prime” — a hologram-projected Artificial Intelligence (AI) — representing Marjorie’s husband Walter (Jon Hamm) when he was a relatively young 40.
Stop playing Candy Crush. Here are four better commute killers
By Drew Beebe
HEY, watch this short video on your phone, OK?
Just type in: bloom.bg/1XE8UAa I bet you’ll be hooked, in the nicest possible way.
You...
Anomalous
By Noel Vera
DVD Review
Anomalisa
Directed by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson
CHARLIE KAUFMAN and Duke Johnson’s Anomalisa (2015) was based on Kaufman’s “sound play” -- actors...
On the shelf
COMIC BOOK COMPILATION
Apple Premium Reseller Beyond the Box is collaborating with three diverse and talented female artists — Julienne Dadivas (also known as Hulyen),...
Writers’ privacy row erupts as Italy’s Ferrante unmasked
ROME — One of literature’s most talked-about mysteries appeared to have been cracked Monday with the unmasking of the identity of the Italian publishing...
Iggy Pop turns 70, sings on experimental jazz album
NEW YORK -- Punk legend Iggy Pop has turned 70 with news he is singing on an experimental jazz album, saying the genre’s bare...