Mountain men
Television
Sherpa
April 24, 9 p.m.
Discovery Channel
WHAT WAS SUPPOSED to be a simple documentary focusing on Sherpas -- a Tibetan ethnic group whose members are regarded...
A good game held back by technical flaws
By Alexander O. Cuaycong and Anthony L. Cuaycong
Game Review
Samurai Warriors: Spirit of Sanada
PlayStation 4
BASED on Luo Guanzhong’s novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Dynasty...
After techno and street art, Berlin tackles graphic novels
BERLIN, GERMANY -- Better known for its electronic music and street art, Berlin is now also home to a budding graphic novel scene in...
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...
Bad blood in the claws of literary execs
By Pola Esguerra del Monte
IN THE INK-STAINED manuscripts of the late Edgardo M. Reyes, the man who wrote the magazine serial-turned-novel-turned-award-winning-film Sa mga...
In praise of Jesus Christ Superstar
By Richard Roeper
“IF YOU’D come today you would have reached a whole nation/Israel in 4 BC had no mass communication.”
In the first nine months...
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...
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...
Making The Crown
NETFLIX’s award-winning series The Crown launched its second season on Dec. 8, continuing the series’ exquisite narration of Britain’s history through the reign of...
Two women
LAST October my mother died.
An obscenity
By Noel Vera
Review
The Devils
Directed by Ken Russell
I THINK The Devils, Ken Russell’s fifth big-screen feature, is a culmination of his previous works dealing in...
Above the law
By Noel Vera
DVD Review
Spotlight
Directed by Tom McCarthy
There’s a point in Tom McCarthy’s new film where brand new Boston Globe editor Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber)...