Most Filipino audiophiles and art enthusiasts can only dream of being part of West Coast America’s famous, and supposedly, coolest annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. But thanks to the folks at Karpos Media, we get the closest thing to it back home.
Often discomfiting, the Cold War drama “The Americans” is about two KGB agents posing as ordinary American spouses in the early 1980s. Starring Keri Russell (“Felicity”) and Matthew Rhys (“Brothers and Sisters”) as Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, “The Americans” mingles fact and fiction, creating compelling scenarios set during the Reagan administration. The spy partners, [...]
Director Gil M. Portes insists his latest indie film, “Bayang Magiliw,” is based on a true story that happened in his hometown of Pagbilao in Quezon province. The lead character was really a vice mayor, “a very powerful one,” in his barrio, Portes says. The mayor was always somewhere else, so his next in [...]
“It’s really flattering,” said Filipino-British singer Vanessa White, about being compared with vocal powerhouses Christina Aguilera and Mariah Carey. White, 23, is the youngest member of the British girl band The Saturdays. She talked about her career and the group’s new reality series, “Chasing The Saturdays” during a recent teleconference with Asian publications. [...]
On Valentine’s Day Thursday, civic-minded celebrities, including media men, will spend time to cheer up cancer-stricken children at the Tahan-Tahanan facility of East Avenue Medical Center (EAMC) in Quezon City. The special program is part of the second year anniversary celebration of Tahan-Tahanan—a halfway home for pediatric cancer patients from 0 to 20 years [...]
I feel like a part of me has been torn away. Fr. James Reuter is gone. I am sure Jesus Christ prepared a choir of angels to welcome him and give him a big pat on the back for a mission successfully carried out.
“This doesn’t deal with the sinking of the ship,” clarified Canadian actor Kevin Zegers, who stars in the History miniseries “Titanic: Blood and Steel.”
Being married doesn’t necessarily mean doing everything with your partner or being together 24/7, said Ryan Agoncillo. The TV host-actor, just back from the Maldives where he and wife Judy Ann Santos celebrated their third wedding anniversary, believes that giving space is crucial to maintaining a sound relationship.
Sharon Cuneta’s decision to jump ship and sign a five-year contract with TV 5 last November created a storm of criticism, with some people calling her an ingrate for turning her back on ABS-CBN, her home network for 23 years.
MEDIA mogul Manuel V. Pangilinan, chairman of the telecommunications conglomerate PLDT/Smart/Sun, wants to acquire control of television network GMA 7. A formal price offer still has to be worked out to bridge a P15-billion gap to swing the deal, but all major industry indicators—dropping profits, shifting consumer markets, rising costs, expensive new technology and cut-throat [...]
Season one of HBO’s fantasy epic series “Game of Thrones” culminates in a full-scale war between the cruel usurpers to the throne and forces loyal to the martyred Ned Stark (Sean Bean), among other powerful factions. Based on George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” books, the series has several characters and houses [...]
A hundred years after Titanic went down, History Channel’s two-hour special, “Titanic Mystery Solved,” answers long-held questions about the sinking of the historic vessel. In an exclusive phone interview with the Inquirer, Carl Lindahl, the cable network’s executive producer of historical programs, and writer-producer Rushmore Denooyer said that this massive undertaking took nearly three years [...]
