By Alexander O. Cuaycong and Anthony L. Cuaycong Videogame Review For Honor Ubisoft WITHOUT a doubt, For Honor can be an immersive experience. Boot up the game and...

Book Broken Mirror: Inside a Chinese Marriage By Aurora Teo Mei Ling and Coylee Gamboa By Zsarlene B. Chua While the title — Broken Mirror — might give...

BERLIN, GERMANY -- Better known for its electronic music and street art, Berlin is now also home to a budding graphic novel scene in...

By Diana Moraleda A FEW in the crowd of around 500 mostly young people bobbed their heads as Dong Abay sang his new song, “Kalinaw.”...

Video Out 1: Noli Me Tangere Directed by Jacques Rivette Available on Netflix until Oct. 1 By Noel Vera WHAT TO CALL Jacques Rivette’s 1971 work? He named...

NEW DELHI, INDIA — She may have returned to publishing fiction after a two decade hiatus, but Indian writer Arundhati Roy says she has...

By Noel Vera Video Paradise Inn Directed by Celso Ad. Castillo YouTube No subtitles CALL CELSO AD. CASTILLO’s Paradise Inn his inversion (and perversion if you like) of Lino Brocka’s...

IN THE bleak winter of 1989, as a graduate student living in a windswept campus on the edge of the Scottish highlands, I found in a tiny bookstore a copy of James Hamilton-Paterson’s Playing With Water, which at that time had the subtitle Alone On a Philippine Island. Just another one of those vacation travel books, I thought. But at least it’s about home. I started reading it that evening, and finished the book in the gray light of dawn, close to tears -- and grateful at having been gifted with such a wonderful and unsettling read.

By Alexander O. Cuaycong THERE’S SOMETHING to be said about StarCraft. This real-time strategy game was released by Blizzard in March 1998 to critical acclaim,...

DVD Review Peppermint Candy Directed by Lee Chang-dong By Noel Vera Lee Chang-dong’s sophomore feature Peppermint Candy (1999) is perhaps his most formally innovative, starting with a man’s...

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...

By Anthony L. Cuaycong THERE’S SOMETHING to be said about the way Penny-Punching Princess stands out from among a bevy of role-playing games on the...