Arundhati Roy: the literary canary in India鈥檚 coalmine
NEW DELHI, INDIA 鈥 She may have returned to publishing fiction after a two decade hiatus, but Indian writer Arundhati Roy says she has...
Death is inevitable, but so is progress
By Alexander O. Cuaycong and Anthony L. Cuaycong
NEON CHROME is an interesting top-down shooter developed by 10tons, originally released in May 2016 on the...
Double jeopardy
Television
Doctor Who Christmas Special
By Noel Vera
IT鈥橲 THE 13TH Doctor Who Christmas Special; it鈥檚 the 12th Doctor meets the 1st (or, as he prefers to...
Joan Baez returns to peace theme in first album in decade
NEW YORK 鈥 Folk legend Joan Baez last week announced her first album in a decade, a collection of covers that returns to her...
With new album, Eminem finds political voice
NEW YORK 鈥 Just how much has America changed since Donald Trump鈥檚 election? Eminem, knee-deep in controversy a generation ago for misogyny and homophobia,...
Dirt poor
By Noel Vera
Video
Mudbound
Directed by Dees Rees
DEES REES鈥檚 Mudbound (2017), adapted from the novel by Hillary Jordan, tells the story of two families -- one...
Recommended for first-timers
By Alexander O. Cuaycong and Anthony L. Cuaycong
AT FIRST GLANCE, it鈥檚 not wrong to think of L.A. Noire as a spin-off of Rockstar Games鈥...
Making The Crown
NETFLIX鈥檚 award-winning series The Crown launched its second season on Dec. 8, continuing the series鈥 exquisite narration of Britain鈥檚 history through the reign of...
La ronde
By Noel Vera
Video
Lolita
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
(WARNING: Plot and narrative twists discussed in close detail)
CREDIT where credit is due: I was invited to listen to...
With exasperation comes satisfaction
By Alexander O. Cuaycong
BEFORE anything else, a disclaimer: Nioh is brutally difficult. The Koei Tecmo action RPG adventure game is heavily inspired by Dark...
The Crown returns
By Mira Catherine B. Gloria
Online Editor
Television
The Crown
Netflix
鈥淭HE WORLD is changing and no one is prepared for what鈥檚 about to happen.鈥 This was how award-winning...
For Mask of Truth, story is both its greatest asset and greatest failing
By Alexander O. Cuaycong
FOR THE REVIEW of the prequel Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception, please refer to this link: https://goo.gl/zmGgHu
Released in Japan in September 2016...