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Adapting a video game to a live action film is tricky business. Any sense of gravitas will always be undermined or offset by the idea that the story is based on a video game. At best, it can be a fun romp ...

It was the acts of courage during the 1986 EDSA Revolution that lead Monty Papa into the world of images. Back then, he was just a 16-year-old taking photos of the many rallies happening on the streets during that tumultuous moment in ...

In most movies about war, the ending is simple: The good guys win. They kill the bad guys, they save people, and they head home. In reality, however, war is never that neat. Survivors of the defeated side have to deal with ...

Last year, Netflix’s reboot of the 2003’s Queer Eye for the Straight Guy started a massive change in direction for makeover shows. Whereas the usual formula involved getting clueless individuals to look, dress, and act better according to an expert’s tastes, 2018’s ...

She’s rescued around 4,000 dogs in 10 years.Rooting for the underdog has always been Amanda Giese’s calling. She rescued her first animal—a sickly kitten she named “Jane Doe”—when she was 10 years old. Years later, she’s rescued and adopted out a little ...

The Avengers 4 trailer has been so feverishly anticipated that even Christmas Day itself will be hard put to top it. But it's finally here.Fans have been eagerly watching for any news regarding the release of the movie, which was first announced in October 2014 as a part 2 ...

There’s only one button on this big weird machine, and it can really only do one thing: play poetry. But in the big city, where almost every sound is noise, that’s a big thing.The country’s first-ever poetry jukebox—the first in Asia—is a ...

There is a moment early in the series where a character tells up-and-coming drug lord Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo about his counterparts in Colombia, with whom he could possibly ally himself. One, he is told, is all about emotion; the other group is more ...

Twenty years ago, Netflix existed as a DVD rental subscribription service that sent physical discs (remember those?) over snail mail (remember that, too?). Today it's not only a pioneer and still the dominant platform for online streaming, it is also arguably the biggest single ...

If there's anything truly monumental that Netflix Originals has achieved, it's that it has broken down the borders to pave the way for great storytelling to reach global audiences. Thanks to the streaming service, viewers have access to everything from Hollywood blockbusters ...

Though seen by many as physically and emotionally stressful, jobs in the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry, particularly in call centers, remain a top choice for most college graduates in the Philippines because of the industry's higher than average pay.According to the ...

After Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer-cited Maus, or even Neil Gaiman's The Sandman series, no philistine has dared suggest that comic books (aka graphic novels) aren't capable of being works of art themselves. But if we ever need that reminder, Sarge Lacuesta's Stay: 21 Comic Stories demonstrates the potential power of the ...