Prince, the innovative, Grammy-winning musician who died of an accidental, self-inflicted overdose of a powerful painkiller in April, is being honored with a comic...

PAUL SCHRADER’s latest feature First Reformed — his 23^rd 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.

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...

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.

By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman READING is supposedly a physical affair. People are meant to touch, feel, smell, and highlight a book or a...

By Noel Vera DVD Review Son of Saul Directed by Lazlo Nemes LAZLO NEMES’ extraordinarily shot and executed debut feature Son of Saul answers a question I (and...

By Alexander O. Cuaycong and Anthony L. Cuaycong Video Game Review Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey PlayStation 4 THE ATELIER SERIES has always had a soft spot in...

By Sam L. Marcelo High Life Associate Editor A YEAR FROM NOW, a recently published comics anthology, exists online as an answer to a question Lyra...

NEW YORK — Punk legend Iggy Pop has turned 70 with news he is singing on an experimental jazz album, saying the genre’s bare...

By Noel Vera Television Review Finale of Twin Peaks: The Return (Warning: plot outline and narrative twists discussed in close detail) IN THE FIRST PART of the finale...

TOKYO — Japan’s techno trail-blazer Ken Ishii rocks huge crowds the world over and leads a glamorous, jet-set life — but the superstar DJ...

By Noel Vera Video Review Porco Rosso Directed by Hayao Miyazaki DVD HAYAO MIYAZAKI’S Porco Rosso started out as a manga for a modeling magazine, was turned into a...