Now out on DVD
The Fall
GILLIAN ANDERSON (The X-Files) and Jamie Dornan (Fifty Shades of Grey) reprise their cat-and-mouse roles in the second season of The Fall, available...
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...
Mozart in the Jungle: Mad Genius, or Drama Queen?
The Binge
Jessica Zafra
FROM THE TITLE I thought it was an adaptation of Fitzcarraldo, the Werner Herzog movie about a would-be rubber baron who dreams...
A part of history
IN CELEBRATION of its 100th anniversary, the Philippine National Bank (PNB) launched a 300-page coffee table book titled PNB: One Hundred Years of Service...
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...
Why art matters
By Sam L. Marcelo
Books
Seven Days in
the Art World
320 pages
W.W. Norton & Company
33 Artists in 3 Acts
448 pages
W.W. Norton & Company
SARAH THORNTON rescued art...
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...
Why is Downton Abbey just like Walking Dead?
The Binge
Jessica Zafra
IT SEEMED that Downton Abbey, like the zombie apocalypse, would never end. And yet the series created and written by Julian...
Four by three
PLAYING CATCHUP: In the ever-changing landscape of World Cinema, what happened to Hong Kong’s “heroic bloodshed” movement -- those action filmmakers who featured slow motion, balletic action sequences, guns pointed at each others’ faces?
Some fascinating features in new edition of Bowie’s first film
Blu-ray/DVD Review
Man Who Fell to Earth: Limited Collector’s Edition
Studiocanal/Lionsgate Limited
The three-disc Studiocanal/Lionsgate Limited Collector’s Edition box set of the SF cult classic The Man...
Mother lover
By Noel Vera
DVD Review
Goodnight Mommy
Directed by Severin Fiala
and Veronika Franz
SEVERIN FIALA and Veronika Franz’s Goodnight Mommy is perfect Mother’s Day fare -- if your...
The Weeknd, smooth yet steamy, makes quick return
By Shaun Tandon
NEW YORK -- Just one year after he catapulted into the ranks of top pop stars, The Weeknd has returned with a...