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…
Just this past April, when a partly-omnicidal cosmic entity wiped out half of all life-forms in the universe (along with a majority of Earth’s mightiest heroes) in “Avengers: Infinity War”, one final scene shows a desperate call for held being answered by a star logo that casual fans of Marvel (the MCU movie audiences) might…
It has been over three years now since she came into prominence, first as an internet sensation with her archetype-defining dub-smash compilation on Facebook, and then a TV personality on noontime variety show “Eat Bulaga!” Her impromptu love team pairing with Alden Richards in 2015 catapulted her into surprise superstardom, and there was a time…
The electronic-powered automobile revolution is continuing apace, with various e-car startups and even major car-manufacturing names staking their own piece of the action. In some places the advancement of e-cars is due to a desire to transition from steadily depleting fossil fuels; in others, it was because of a misstep. Several European car companies like…
For quite some time him this decade, when it comes to the best drama series likely to receive awards, the most certain candidate would have to be HBO’s cash cow fantasy epic “Game of Thrones”, the TV adaptation of the popular and long-delayed (in conclusion) book franchise written by George R.R. Martin. Since premiering in…
The past weekend could be succinctly described as the “Time of the Two Super-Storms”. In both the Pacific and Atlantic, eastern-facing coastal areas were hammered respectively by Super-Typhoon Mangkhut (Ompong in the Philippines) and Hurricane Florence. While Mangkhut raised hell and high water on the western Pacific and the uppermost regions of Southeast Asia, Florence…
