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The Ant-Man and The Wasp: A big sequel that offers a tiny hint to Avengers 4

A popular and critical success. That’s the verdict of the website Rotten Tomatoes on the movie “The Ant-Man and The Wasp”, the latest installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. With a Tomato Meter of 86% and an audience score of 80%, this is one...

The month in review: June

June ushered the start of the rainy season, with Typhoon Domeng causing flash floods in Metro Manila and the northern part of the archipelago. CNN Philippines reported two dead and several sea traveling passengers stranded in the aftermath of the typhoon. In the news,...

THE MONTH IN REVIEW: April’s politics, political will & more politics

  April Fool’s Day came on an Easter Sunday and in the aftermath of pranks and the Lord’s resurrection, the first eight days of April simmered in politics coated with political will. April 2 rolled with the recounting of the votes for the 2016 vice-presidential...

News in focus / MARCH

Sereno’s march to impeachment, DOJ surprises, and other fantastic gambits by Psyche Roxas-Mendoza The Ides of March, in the time of Roman Emperor Julius Caesar, meant danger about to come. And it did come, in the whole month of March, for Supreme Court Chief Justice...

Timeless: Musing on music and Rizal

by Sampaguita B. Flores-Nepomuceno Music is timeless in our environment—from informal noises that do sound musical to the classical music and the modern music of popular culture. Music has been part of humanity’s environment since before the dawn of recorded history. What if we find...

Tomb Raider: Yamatai Kudasai

As a child, I spent one too many sleepless nights playing the Tomb Raider franchise in PS1. From the first one all the way to Tomb Raider Chronicles. At the advent of the PS2, I played The Angel of Darkness, Tomb Raider: Legend,...

Random Pickings

Rebooting a good thing: The Girl in the Spider’s Web

Having read Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy and seen the films, I had high hopes for the Hollywood remake which did not disappoint. With David...

Prepare: Avengers Endgame is going to be three hours long

More than three hours…. You read that right. The final installment in the Avenger trilogy will be over three hours long. That’s 182 minutes...

NEWS IN FOCUS / February: Love and hate in the time of Digong

The first day of February turned Red with the arrest of National Democratic Front (NDF) consultant Rafael Baylosis. It was the first demonstration of...

Imperiously matriarchal: ‘Suspiria’ rebooted

This imperiously matriarchal film is a remake of the 1977 Dario Argento film with Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name) at the helm....