Posts under ‘Culture’

Woot! SM City San Fernando will host the launching of Kalam the first ever Kapampangan soap opera on August 27, 2008! And if you’re planning to go there, it will be for free! Whoa!
Manila has been the cultural center of the Philippines. It is where radio programs, television shows and major cultural products are developed, [...]

Woot! The Eiga Sai is here again. I attended Eiga Sai 2006 and I liked it! I missed it last year though. Good thing, it’s here again and I’m so excited! Free Film Festivals are a gift from God!
Eiga Sai features Japanese film. July, after all is the Japan Friendship Month. Eiga Sai 2008 is [...]

When a sequel becomes successful, the producers would naturally go for a trilogy. When a trilogy proves to be a success, then they would go for a fourth installment! Man! How do they stretch the storylines of these movies?
Since, we’ve seen a flurry of Sequel number 4’s recently, Paul W.S. Anderson seems to be bursting [...]

According to Cirilo Bautista, an award-winning fictionist and poet in the Philippines, the Philippine people:
“are victims of popular entertainment which engenders low taste. Television programs and the movies are dominated by stories, talk shows and contests that perpetuate intellectual and aesthetic stagnation with their stereotype techniques and shallow subjects. In the long run, this has [...]

Here comes another movie from Hong Kong invading the world’s movie screens. “The Warlords,” featuring Jet Li, Andy Lau, and Takeshi Kaneshiro, will be shown in Manila theaters very very soon.
The movie features the lives of three warlords who have sworn as “Blood Brothers,” and agreed to be brothers for life. If anybody harms any [...]

If you’re wondering about the state of Filipino animation, I’ve got good news for you. We have now produced the first ever full-length animation movie—Urduja. It started screening in movies on June 18, 2008.
Watch the Urduja trailer after the jump.
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I love betting for the underdogs. This NBA 2008, I went for the Boston Celtics (hmmm… them being an underdog might have to be qualified, though). On June 28, I’m going for David Diaz. It’s nothing personal. I respect Manny Pacquiao as a boxer. He has proven a lot. But still, I’m betting for David [...]

If there is any lesson from the recent kidnapping of ABS-CBN reporter Ces Drilon in the province of Sulu, it is that Journalism is a dangerous profession. Perhaps there is good reason why I have not chosen this line of career.
By going to the hotspot of military and even social and cultural conflict in Mindanao, [...]