The movie-watching experience has changed dramatically. Can Wonder Woman 1984 adapt to the times?
I saw Wonder Woman 1984 in a screening theater in an office building right next to a mall I enjoyed going to; it had a foot massage parlor, my favorite izakaya, and a Nespresso kiosk on the ground floor. That was before the pandemic, ...
We’re in a bit of a pickle here. On one hand, we need a face mask (and plenty of it) to protect ourselves against coronavirus, and wearing one (and more and more) has helped slow COVID-19’s spread, so that’s all good. On ...
Streaming services grew into behemoths as we all watched at home, but is their success good for creative content?
With everyone stuck at home and movie theaters closed, streamers have quickly become the primary source of home entertainment. While we inch ever closer to the end of the pandemic, the actions and movements of streamers in 2020 will have implications far ...
Award-winning photojournalist Basilio Sepe captures PICC without the glamour.
Award-winning photojournalist Basilio Sepe captures the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) in its rarest state: calm, raw, and without the echoing applause of live events.The pandemic has rendered the destination for important events and glamourous celebrations quiet, and yet its beauty remains. ...
From Scandi chairs to purposeful electric equipment, these gifts reflect the state of mind of your hardworking editors.
Hey, hey, hey! It looks like we made it. With only a few days to go until Christmas (and a few more until we leave 2020 in the dust), we’re taking this opportunity to send a very clear hint to the universe. To ...
The Hollywood fixture crafts a breakthrough role in the HBO finance series.
Opinions have been mixed as Industry makes its way across the corona TV landscape, but one thing that can be unanimously be agreed upon is Ken Leung’s performance as Eric Tao, Pierpoint & Co.’s bat-wielding managing director of cross products sales. Reactions range from ...
Cassegrain succumbed to COVID-19-related complications.
Philippe Cassegrain, president of French leather goods company Longchamp, succumbed to COVID-19-related complications last November 28. The Cassegrain family recently confirmed his passing. He was 83.Cassegrain, who served the family-run company for 60 years, was instrumental in the success of Longchamp, not ...
HBO's Industry feels familiar but remains a solid story about what it takes to make it the world of finance.
The financial sector finally gets the sex and drugs treatment in HBO’s new show Industry, where a class of 20-somethings fights each other for a position at a prestigious London investment bank. The show sits comfortably in between Euphoria and Succession, two other HBO shows that ...
Decoding the signs and symbolisms of Nadine’s lush 33-minute video.
A clairvoyant reads the cards of a young woman’s fate, but also compels her to choose her fate. The same woman emerges from volcanic stone as an earthly manifestation of the mountain goddess myth. Now she lies afloat in the water like ...
New creative voices, smaller films, and a strong desire to tell stories are keeping movie-making alive.
Here is part two of our deep dive into the state of your favorite pastime, movies. In this installment, we discuss how studios and theaters can exist alongside streamers and what you can expect from movies in the pandemic reality. What are ...
An optimist’s guide to the business of global filmmaking in the time of the pandemic.
Welcome to part one of our deep dive into the state of your favorite pastime, movies. In this installment, we look at how studios and theaters are dealing with the effects of the pandemic. Next week, we discuss streamers and your film-watching ...
It’s a slap in the face when the person who eagerly swept you off your feet suddenly goes floating away.
Let’s talk about ghosts. No, not the spirits of the dead that occasionally come back to the land of the living. Those are not difficult to understand. They’re just lonely and miss us. The real supernatural phenomena are the alive and well ...
(There is no way to write this without sounding like a self-absorbed asshole.)I think you and everybody else can relate to the topic at hand. Unless you’re easy. I want to talk about the pain of not liking somebody who likes you. ...
Are you only interesting to each other when there’s no other interesting thing around?
While the world stood still, we slid into DMs. That girl who likes a few of your posts and whose story you react to sometimes. That guy you met once and accepted on Facebook. The serpent of temptation takes the form of ...
Gilda Cordero-Fernando taught writers what they should want to be.
Me at 12, frozen in the afternoon light in our small living room extension, looking out at a backyard of tall and unkept grass. The phone is ringing. A record is playing. This might have been the summer when girls happened to ...
The Fruitjuice Factory Studio forms knots of memory that helps its makers remember.
It took a while for me to embark on writing these words. Perhaps what it was that slowed me down was the nostalgia. I got lost in it. Both in the marring memories that signified what I had lost and let go ...
An expat and a photographer learn to live in harmony in this light-drenched North Syquia unit.
They couldn’t have been more different: One likes order and light—lots of it—while the other revels in darkness and chaos. But inside one of North Syquia’s spacious apartments, two housemates find common ground. The housemates—a German expat working with an international NGO and a ...
Over the Moon continues the wave of globally minded prestige animation.
The goal of animation is not the simulation of life, but the representation of it. A young Glen Keane was once told, “Glen, don't animate what the character is doing, animate what the character is feeling and thinking.” After a strong career ...
Plot: An insurance agent investigates the kidnapping of a jai alai player involving a female death squad called Wonder Women.
Throughout the back half to the 20th century, the Philippines was an established location for low- to medium-budget B movies. With scenic vistas and beaches and a cooperative, English-speaking workforce, an ecosystem existed that allowed scores of Hollywood productions to quickly shoot ...
Actor Jack Bannon plays the superhero’s mentor and butler in the prequel TV series.
“We were encouraged from the beginning to think of it as a stand-alone thing,” says Jack Bannon, who stars as Alfred Pennyworth, a former British special forces operative who will become the butler of the Wayne family and serve as a father ...
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