Here we go again. By next month another “Bible epic” hits cinemas everywhere. Exodus: Gods and Kings is the latest monumental epic from director Ridley Scott and stars an ensemble cast, including Christian Bale, Ben Kingsley, and Sigourney Weaver. Exodus is a large-scale retelling of the Old Testament’s most dramatic volume: how Moses freed the Hebrews […]

Walk on the Wild Side Nothing like a thousand-mile hike to rid Reese Witherspoon of her acting tics If Birdman was the Black Swan for men, Wild is the Cast Away for women. The difference is the lead in Wild has, thank heavens, several people to interact with; not just a Wilson volleyball. Or it is Eat Pray Love in the desert—only less boring. Reese […]

Hear Me Roar In a world where everyone is connected, Wild shows us that to find yourself, you must first find isolation Cheryl Strayed (Reese Witherspoon) decides to hike the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT)—a 4.3 km long hiking trail that goes through Califronia, Oregon, and Washington State—all by herself after a series of events forced her to […]

TAIPEI, 4 February 2015—A Taiwan TransAsia Airways plane crashed into a river in Taipei Wednesday morning, killing nine people, a Xinhua reporter said from the scene. Flight ATR-72, which was headed for Kinmen from Taipei, had 58 people on board, including 31 passengers from the Chinese mainland. Contact with the plane was lost at about […]

Last year, after the UAAP basketball finals, our Katipunan store made Php500,000 in just one day—Jorge Concepcion, Shakeys GM (below, 2R) PARAÑAQUE CITY, 9 February 2015—The number of US franchise brands that have taken the Philippines by storm are many: Domino’s, Little Caesars, Taco Bell, Popeyes, and so on. But the others have floundered (Taco […]

PASIG CITY, 10 February 2015— Expanding its reach with a presence in print, 88DB Philippines acquired BPO Hotjobs, OFW Hotjobs, and China Business Philippines in early January. All three publications were previously published by Fairnews Media Inc. Under the management of 88DB Philippines, Hotjobs will reach out to more job seekers, adding a powerful online […]

In her latest album, Vulnicura, the Icelandic songstress wallows in despair and comes out of it…less depressed Vulnicura is Björk’s journal, a chronicle of her breakup with longtime partner and father to her children Matthew Barney. She describes her latest album as “teenage.” But unlike the regular Billboard Top 100 pop song, Björk’s resonates with a more […]

PASIG CITY—Kingsman, the latest spy action comedy by Kick-Ass and X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn, is the story of Eggsy played by British actor Taron Egerton, the son of a former spy candidate who died during a mission in the Middle East 17 years ago. With his father dead, Eggsy and his mom struggle […]

TOKYO, 17 February 2015—A 6.9-magnitude quake hit offshore in Sanriku, Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan at 8:06 AM (local time), resulting in a tsunami warning for the country’s northeastern coastal areas, Japan’s Meteorological Agency said Tuesday. The epicenter was initially determined at 39.9 degrees north latitude, 144.5 degrees east longitude, with a depth of 10 […]

MAKATI CITY, 17 February 2015—Google officially announced the presence of Android One in the Philippines today. The Internet giant partnered with Cherry Mobile and MyPhone to release Android One, an affordable but fast and responsive smartphone made for the masses that runs on Google’s latest OS, Android Lollipop. In the coming weeks, Cherry One and […]