Wake Up! album mixes Pope Francis speeches with spiced-up hymns
POPE FRANCIS is releasing an album of speeches set against a background of music ranging from rock to Gregorian chants.
European music label Believe Digital...
Empire, Sleepy Hollow, Midsomer and more now out on video
THE COMPLETE first season of the hit Fox TV drama series Empire is now available on Blu-ray and DVD. Set within the world of...
Mystery author Agatha Christie was queen of poison
TORQUAY, UNITED KINGDOM — Throughout her prolific career, mystery author Agatha Christie killed off hundreds of characters by bullets, daggers, even a blow of...
What TV shows do CEOs watch?
The Binge
by Jessica Zafra
Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, chair and CEO, Ayala Corp.
Current favorites
• Rectify
• Deutschland 83
• Mr. Robot
• Boardwalk Empire
• The Honorable Woman
•...
Gender bender
LONDON — Scottish-born author Ali Smith has received a number of honors for her gender-bending novel How to be both that explores issues of...
TV Therapy: Watch your way to better mental health
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By Jessica Zafra
ARE YOU ANXIOUS, stressed-out, neurotic? Are you haunted by the past, overwhelmed by the present, and worried about the future? Do...
The children are
By Noel Vera
DVD Review
The Brood
Directed by David Cronenberg
INTERESTING to chart the course of David Cronenberg’s career as if it were a pathology, the coursing...
Silver Linings Playbook’s Matthew Quick: when people told him to give up
By Jasmine Agnes T. Cruz
HOW MANY YEARS should one believe in a dream without knowing if it will ever come true?
New York Times best-selling...
Mr. Robot: The show that hacked the news
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By Jessica Zafra
THE REVOLUTION is being televised, in the form of a cyber-thriller on the previously unheralded USA Network. Written and produced by...
The blues challenge
By Tony M. Maghirang
FILIPINO BANDS Bleu Rascals and Brat Pack have got the blues -- and a globally competitive strain at that.
They earned...
Going Clear: How to make tax-free billions in the religion business
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By Jessica Zafra
L. Ron Hubbard was a prolific science-fiction writer of the 1940s and ’50s who wanted more than the dollar per word...
Vicious: Revered thespians behaving badly
The Binge
By Jessica Zafra
Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Derek Jacobi are two of the most esteemed British actors of stage and screen. Theirs are...