Life has definitely been on the up and up for Lea Salonga. She is after all an established contemporary legend in the musical theatre scene, is also a recording artist, actress and TV host, and she provides the singing voice to not just one, but two Disney Princesses. On a personal level, she is also…
With the turn of the centuries from the 20th to the 21st, the book publishing world was awash with lots of new literature for the young adult readership. J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter”, while initially geared for children, eventually became teensier. And then there are the likes of Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” saga, which alongside “Potter” get…
When there is something strange in your neighborhood, who are you going to call? Even casual fans would know to answer this question from a song lyric with “Ghostbusters”. But here is a follow-up: Which Ghostbusters are you talking about? Here the answer might almost always be the one from the 1980s films and animated…
Fans of technological advancements in the future, or at least of the time travel-themed “Back to the Future” film series, have long been fascinated with one scene from the second movie of the trilogy. Michael J. Fox’s Marty McFly has travelled to the then-future year of 2015 and, to blend in, has put on futuristic…
In 2015, a hotel opened in Sasebo, Japan that was something of a test case to prove an idea of its owner Hideo Sawada, founder of the low-cost international travel agency H.I.S. Co. Ltd. The Henn na Hotel (“Strange Hotel”) would demonstrate how minimizing manpower in an establishment and replacing many of the staff with…
In the year 2016, the world was stunned when the United Kingdom voted in a referendum to depart from its membership in the politico-economic European Union. This was the “Brexit” initiative intended to cut the UK from making consensuses with regards to their foreign policies such as immigration, as well as setting their own rules…
It is said that in this day and age, with so many world records being fixed as either a constant or as statistics that are increasingly passing natural limitations, the “new records” being set now tend to range from being esoteric to outright weird. For instance, in February of 2018 Kylie Jenner posted a photo…
A lot of things start at the first month of a new year. There is the start of awards season for example; then we have the beginning of the Grand Slam of tennis. The first of four major tournament involved has just kicked off this week down under. Melbourne Park is alive with world-class pro…
Back in 1996 a TV series created by Bruce Geller premiered on CBS that chronicled the adventures of an ad hoc team of covert agents working for the top secret agency Impossible Mission Force, which engaged in counter-terrorism, undermining dictatorships, conducting sensitive espionage, and combatting organized crime. The original “Mission: Impossible” show was good enough…
There was a time, when digital online streaming of media was still something of an innovative novelty, when streaming platform services served as a cornucopia of some old and new films and TV series from different studios and producers that could be watched at any time and any amount thanks to not being tied down…
Recent trends on the productions of Disney animation subsidiary Pixar, from shorts to feature-length, seem to touch very deeply into contemporary cultures, societies and traditions outside that of the United States. In 2017 they took Mexico – and China – by storm with their family-oriented fantasy “Coco”, which features the Mexican Dia de los Muertos…
On the wild online frontier of social media, there is a constant battle to control if not outright clamp down on practices and trends that tend to ruin the overall internet community experience. Even relatively closed platforms such as Facebook have to contend with instances of “fake news” and advertising spam that just do not…
