It was a fairly well-used convention in movies or TV series with a crisis or disaster involved in the narrative. People in the story may be watching a show or sports broadcast on television (or if the period is earlier, listening to the same on radio) when all of a sudden, the program is cut…
It was probably the most epic business battle of the year. Plenty of analysts and even ordinary observes sat up and took notice when the acquisition talks between The Walt Disney Company and 21st Century Fox for a number of media assets from last year was complicated by the offer of a higher all-cash offer…
In 2008, Lucasfilm Animation released through Warner Bros. Pictures a 3D-animated film spinoff of the “Star Wars” prequel trilogy, set between Episode II and III. “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” was a box office hit, and served as the introduction to a full animated series on Cartoon Network that ran for five seasons. When Disney…
Early this July, the Philippine national men’s basketball team, better known as Gilas Pilipinas, was playing a game against Australia at the Philippine Arena in Bocaue, as part of the FIBA World Cup Asian qualifiers for 2019. It was the second time Gilas would encounter the Australians in the match bracket for Group B of…
When your business is big, your products or services are used by almost everybody, and you heavily take advantage of that fact, you run the risk of being charged with breaking the antitrust law, as you have made it difficult, even impossible, for other companies offering the same goods and services to compete with you.…
The Philippines, or at least the younger side of its population, really love anime; there is no “if” or “but” about that. Whether it’s the dubbed series shown by local networks or cable channels, or the occasional movie shown at some mall cinemas, or simply watching episodes online, there is no denying that Filipinos are…
When it was made available for streaming starting November of 2016, the Netflix original drama series “The Crown” became a critical and audience hit, as viewers tuned in to stream episodes of the show which chronicled the life of Elizabeth II, from her marriage to Philip Mountbatten, to her ascension as Queen of the United…
One of the most significant points of tensions in contemporary Philippine history are the cultural and nationalistic sentiments of the Filipino Muslim community, especially those concentrated in Mindanao which are collectively termed the “Bangsamoro”. Initial separatist insurgencies in the area were appeased somewhat with the 1989 creation of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM),…
The story is well told by this point in time; two years ago in July of 2016, mobile developer Niantic Labs launched the game app they have been crafting for Nintendo’s foray into the potentially lucrative mobile gaming market. It was called “Pokémon Go”, and for a time it was the ultimate mobile game and…
When comic book superhero fans, particularly of DC, are looking for a television fix to satiate their craving for costumed action-packed adventures, they would go to The CW. They started off in 2012 with “Arrow”, about the archer vigilante hero Oliver Queen/Green Arrow, and from there they expanded their world to include more DC characters…
Only a decade or so ago, it would have been straight science fiction to claim that it would be possible to buy anything and everything from the internet. These days such a notion is getting closer to being science fact, courtesy of the mighty strides of the gigantic online marketplace platform Amazon. From its original…
At The Overlook Film Festival that celebrates all things horror, thriller/horror film Still/Born won the “Scariest Film” upon its world premiere. Directed by Brandon Christensen, Still/Born tells the story of the perfectly happy life of newlyweds Mary (Christie Burke) and Jack (Jesse Moss) until they lose one of their twins at childbirth. The plot thickens…
