Roaming China
Videogame Review
Romance of the Three Kingdoms 13
PlayStation 4
By Alexander O. Cuaycong and Anthony L. Cuaycong
ROMANCE of the Three Kingdoms 13 (ROTK 13) is the latest...
A good man with a gun
SAY THE name “Jacques Tourneur” and the first word come to mind for most folks is “horror” (the second is possibly “cat”). Tourneur had been directing since 1931, mainly shorts, finally made a splash early ’40s working for producer Val Lewton in Cat People (low budget, eerily beautiful) and I Walked With a Zombie (despite the pulpy title, my favorite adaptation of Jane Eyre). Say “Tourneur” and the word “westerns” rarely pops up -- but some of his westerns do in fact represent his finest work.
Bowie: The 10 key tracks
PARIS -- David Bowie -- who died on Sunday, two days after his 69th birthday and the release of his last album, Blackstar --...
David Bowie: A force on screen and soundtracks
By Richard Roeper
DAVID BOWIE was one of the most beloved and influential musical artists of the 20th (and early 21st) century — but he...
Gods and monsters
By Noel Vera
DVD
Princess Mononoke
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Rerelease
(Warning: article does not summarize the film’s story — there are websites for that — and goes into...
Recommended for first-timers
By Alexander O. Cuaycong and Anthony L. Cuaycong
AT FIRST GLANCE, it’s not wrong to think of L.A. Noire as a spin-off of Rockstar Games’...
A flawed masterpiece
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,...
Back from hiatus, Metallica is still angry
PARIS — Back with its first album in eight years, Metallica has returned to its thrash metal roots, making it clear the band hasn’t...
Better Call Saul Season 2: Jimmy tries to think inside the box, kicks through...
The Binge
Jessica Zafra
ONE OF THE THINGS we loved about Breaking Bad was its sheer nerdiness. By nerdiness I mean a laser-focused expertise that manifests...
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...
Ed Sheeran still thinking out loud, mostly about love
NEW YORK — Ed Sheeran has spoken of not wanting to be defined by “Thinking Out Loud,” his 2014 love song whose viral success...
Last holdout
PAUL SCHRADER’s latest feature First Reformed — his 23rd directing job — is a tiny feature shot around Brooklyn and Queens in only 20 days, on a budget of roughly three and a half million dollars. It’s also arguably his best work to date, or if not his best then somewhere up there.