Bob Dylan says ‘not yearning for old days’ in latest cover album

Bob Dylan’s new album Triplicate explores American standards from the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s, but the veteran singer-songwriter says that does not mean he...

Depeche Mode return with new album Spirit

DEPECHE MODE is back, releasing its 14th studio album which the British synth-pop musicians describe as “bleak.” The Syrian conflict and rise of nationalism in...

Arcade Fire takes indie outlook to dance floor

NEW YORK -- Few bands have straddled the divide between indie and mainstream quite like Arcade Fire -- eclectic in tastes and cerebral in...

Nine Inch Nails return with ‘impenetrable’ music

NEW YORK -- Industrial rockers Nine Inch Nails on Friday last week announced their first release in three years -- an EP that frontman...

Ed Sheeran back with two new singles

LONDON — British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran surprised fans by releasing two new songs last week, drawn from his forthcoming third album. The 25-year-old, who won the...

Springtime for Hitler

ERNST LUBITSCH’s To Be or Not to Be opened to mixed reviews and so-so box office. A picture that poked fun at Nazism and Adolf Hitler? At a time when fascism threatened to swallow the world (Pearl Harbor happened a few months before)?

A treasure trove

IT’S NO COINCIDENCE that the birth and growth of Shin Nihon Kikaku (SNK) as a video-game developing, publishing, and manufacturing company coincided with the industry’s rise in popularity. The transition to the 1980s saw the proliferation of gaming arcades and the inevitable releases of home-console versions of popular titles, and it was determined not just to take advantage of the boom, but to ensure its sustainability through constant innovation. Soon enough, it became a major player in the coin-operated business, and it astutely leveraged its experience to penetrate the expanding home market.

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...

Playing games while caught in traffic

Television Cash Cab Tuesdays, 8:50 p.m. AXN By Joseph L. Garcia, Reporter IF YOU’VE ever raised your fist at the heavens when a cab driver has refused to take...

War games

By Noel Vera DVD Review Sundalong Kanin (Rice Soldiers) Directed by Janice O’Hara (Belated tribute to Janice O’Hara, 1980-2016) TO SAY Janice O’Hara’s Sundalong Kanin (Rice Soldiers) is clumsy...

Better Call Saul: The moving story of an honest sleazeball

The Binge — Jessica Zafra “YOU’RE the kind of lawyer guilty people hire,” the embezzler’s wife tells Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk). Even the most clueless...

Why the wealthy give

By Jasmine Agnes T. Cruz Book The Giving Way to Happiness By Jenny Santi Published by Penguin Random House DONATING to charity can make people happy. This...