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...

Radiohead inches back to rock roots on bleak new album

NEW YORK — Radiohead, the band for two decades synonymous with experimentation, has inched back to its rock roots on a long-awaited album that...

Mr. Robot: The show that hacked the news

The Binge 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...

Tippi Hedren accuses Hitchcock of sexual harassment in memoir

LOS ANGELES — Actress Tippi Hedren graphically chronicles in a new memoir incidents in which she says she was sexually assaulted and harassed by...

Dangerous high school

By Alexander O. Cuaycong and Anthony L. Cuaycong IT’S TO SPIKE CHUNSOFT’s credit that Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony manages to bring uniqueness and originality out...

That gum you like

By Noel Vera DAVID LYNCH and Mark Frost’s murder mystery/spiritual horrorshow/police procedural/goofball soap opera Twin Peaks debuted on ABC Network April 8, 1990 and television...

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...

Bless my homeland forever

Video The Man in the High Castle Amazon By Noel Vera Frank Spotnitz’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s classic alternate-history dystopia The Man in the High Castle is...

Your Weekend Guide (September 7, 2018)

THE G-FORCE Project 2018 Sembreak Dance Workshop will be held at the G-Force Dance Center, Expansion Wing of Festival Mall, on Sept. 15, 16, 22, 23, 29, and 30 for Batch 1, and Oct. 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, and 21 for Batch 2.

A collective testament to the power of ingenuity and creativity

IT WOULD BE an understatement to describe Sweden-based SkyGoblin as a small independent video game developer. Composed of a handful wearing a variety of hats, the company burst into the mainstream following the release of free ware adventure game The Journey Down: Over The Edge at the turn of the decade. Smartly, it leveraged the success to come up with a much-improved and highly expanded version that serves as the starting point for a point-and-click series of the same name. Given the limited resources it has had at its disposal throughout production, the commercially released Trilogy is nothing short of remarkable.

Tricky goes clean and gets darker

PARIS — After a string of releases over the past decade, Tricky found himself in an unfamiliar state. The influential trip-hop producer didn’t need...

Good intentions

THERE’S NO QUESTION that the Gundam franchise has become huge to the point of ubiquity. These days, offshoots of animation studio Sunrise’s intellectual property can be found practically anywhere, way beyond the small and big screens and into toy establishments, hobby shops, book and video game stores, and collectors’ corners. It has become so ingrained in popular culture that a 65-foot-tall Unicorn mecha in Odaiba stands as one of Japan’s biggest — literally and figuratively — tourist attractions.