One major element of the whole Marvel movie experience is that for a time, there was more than one “experience” under different film studios. 20th Century Fox had “X-Men” and “Fantastic Four”, Columbia-Sony had “Spider-Man”, and smaller labels had minor characters like “Daredevil” and “Ghost Rider”. Then Marvel Studios came into play and started a…
Barring sudden unforeseen developments, the acquisition of choice assets from 21st Century Fox (movie studio and TV network among them) by Disney is pretty much a done deal. There is only detail that until recently has not been resolved, the matter of the UK-based pay TV giant Sky. That asset was part of the original…
Eldrick Tont Woods, better known to the world as legendary golfer Tiger Woods, is without a doubt a standard of excellence in his chosen sport and one of the most legendary athletes of the present era. A prodigious talent nurtured while in school and on amateur contests helped him stage a phenomenal entry into the…
Almost two years on from her surprise (and memorable) victory in the 2015 Miss Universe beauty pageant, Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach is pretty much secure and prominent in her celebrity. But that was never in doubt, with her educational background and prior experience in such diverse fields as acting, makeup and even journalism. Even her life…
When Disney first announced “The Force Awakens” for 2015, the first “Star Wars” movie in cinemas after the last part of creator George Lucas’ prequel trilogy “Revenge of the Sith” back in 2005, fans of the franchise were ecstatic at the prospect of new stories from the Galaxy Far, Far Away. When Disney next revealed…
After a long absence from television, the iconic science fiction franchise “Star Trek” returned in 2017 to the small screen in the form of “Star Trek: Discovery” starring Sonequa Martin-Green and Jason Isaacs. Despite some initial misgivings over its setting – just ten years before the “Original Series” from the sixties start – the debut…
It is shaping up to be a point of pride for the South Korean entertainment industry that their K-Wave of culture, particularly their pop music acts, has the potential to get along rather swimmingly with the mother of all international organizations, the United Nations itself. It is not easily forgotten that in 2012 the UN,…
For quite some time the Department of Transportation and Communications, now the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), has been musing over how the country’s commercial telecommunications market has been all but cleanly divided up into only two national corporations, PLDT/Smart and Globe Telecom. One way the DICT’s National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) sees to…
I seriously did not think I would be writing another videogame-related article so soon, but this bit of news cannot possibly wait. Now, the gaming industry seems to be giving plenty of focus on inducing nostalgia for its fan base. Nintendo did it first with its Classic versions of its pioneering consoles the NES and…
When the name of Josh Groban is mentioned, the first thing that comes to one’s mind is that he is a magnificent singer; well, either that or one of his inspirational songs like “To Where You Are” or his cover of “You Raise Me Up”. He has stretched his acting muscles too, but mostly his…
Mysterious phenomenon being encountered while on a plane trip has been an interesting subject for film and television. In the 1990s ABC aired a mini-series adaptation of Stephen King novella “The Langoliers”, before premiering “Lost” in 2004 to rave reviews that elevated the theme. Now, it is NBC’s turn to try their hand at the…
It has been said that nostalgia is a powerful tool in the hands of some long-lived manufacturing companies. The electronic entertainment, or videogame, industry has taken these words to heart at times. Nintendo was the first to bank on it when they introduced an emulation-based dedicated console that gathers some of the best titles of…
