From the success of Hereafter, Invictus, Million Dollar Baby and Gran Torino, veteran actor and director Clint Eastwood returns to the big screen as he directs one Warner Bros. Pictures latest offering in 2012 entitled J.Edgar. It is a biographical drama film written by Dustin Lance Black. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts, Josh Lucas and Judi Dench. The film follows the career of an FBI director named J. Edgar Hoover (DiCaprio) who has an expertise in modern forensics and created a system of federal laws that transformed the U.S. in a multitude of ways that remain…
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Here’s the result of the 37th Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) that happened at the Resorts World Manila Performing Arts Theater last December 28, 2011. It was Maricel Soriano who won Best Actress for the movie Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow of Regal Film even there’s disqualification claims on the movie, while Dingdong Dantes as Best Actor for the film Segunda Mano of Star Cinema. And this year’s Best Picture of the year is Manila Kingpin Asiyong Salonga Story that also brought home most of the awards including the Best Supporting Actor (John Regala) Best Director (Darell dela Cruz ), Gatpuno Antonio Villegas…
One of the hardest and irritating for others when going to mall to shop is the long lines in the payment counter and the products we wanted to buy are not available that time. And especially during sales, expect huge number of shoppers that limits us to check out more products because we can hardly move at the department stores and worse expect heavy traffic or hard time to get taxi. That is why, I find Multiply Marketplace as one of the easy options to buy products particularly gadgets and other accessories that I usually need. What’s good with the…
ABS-CBN officially announced the appointment of KC Concepcion to be the host of their newest singing –reality show that will be airing on 2012 entitled X-Factor Philippines. The reality show is a franchised of X-Factor that originates in the United Kingdom (UK) and under the concept Simon Cowell and his company SYCOtv. This is one of the newest projects of KC after she renewed her exclusive contract with ABS-CBN with her Viva Entertainment management few weeks ago. Starting January 2012, KC will be visiting Cebu, Bacolod, Manila, Olongapo, and Batangas for the X-Factor Philippines auditions in search for the newest…
It’s been almost five years since I created ASK by Flow Galindez (formerly AngSawariKo). From those years up to present, aside from the usual entertainment, food, lifestyle, tech and travel blog posts, I always make sure that I included articles that promote advocacy and rights. Through this, in my simple way, I believe I am promoting responsibility and hope on the social media space somehow. But of course, I wanted everyone to take part of it and be more responsible about how what they post online, and how they see some of the social issues and interesting topics and be…
In line with the celebration of Dr. Jose Rizal’s 150th birthday, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) produces ten million pieces of the newly-minted coin featuring national hero. The commemorative one-peso coin has the same size of the ordinary Php1.00 which is 24 millimeters in diameter and weighs around 5.35 grams. The coin contains face will feature the hero’s portrait and will have the markings 150 years, Republika ng Pilipinas, and year 1861-2011. At the back of the coin it has the logo of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas with the 1 Piso word and 2011. The Office of the…
On January 2012, Warner Bros. Pictures brings back the action comedy tandem of Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law on the big screen for the film Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. It is the sequel of the Sherlock Holmes franchise that was directed by Guy Ritchie and based from the character with the same name created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The screenplay was written by Kieran Mulroney and Michele Mulroney and also includes actors like Noomi Rapace, Jared Harris, Stephen Fry, Kelly Reilly and Rachel McAdams. The sequel embarks on the adventure of Sherlock Holmes (Downey Jr.) with…
After the huge success of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Warner Bros. Pictures brings another movie adaptation of a J. R. R. Tolkien novel entitled The Hobbit. The film adaptation will be divided in to two parts; The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and The Hobbit: There and Back Again, which will be shown in all cinemas in 2012 and 2013 respectively, but it now shot back to back in New Zealand. The two-part epic fantasy film directed is by Peter Jackson and stars Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Graham McTavish, Ken Stott, Andy Serkis, Christopher Lee, Benedict…
Craving for a Chinese cuisine with a spicy kick? Red Crab Group brings Komrad, a Chinese restaurant located at the 2nd Floor of Eastwood Mall Veranda in Quezon City. It offers dishes inspired from the districts of Hunan and Sichuan that offers that appetizing spicy that that everyone will surely love. Before I share my dining experience in Komrad, here are some details about the Hunan and Sichuan cuisine that was offered in the restaurant. Hunan cuisine is known with its hot spicy flavor, fresh aroma and deep color. Its cooking technique is usually stewing, frying, pot-roasting, braising, and smoking.…
After the successful release of their internet tablets, Archos officially launches the G9 Tablets in the market that is Android™ 3.2 Honeycomb powered and 3G capable. The Archos G9 Tablets has two available sizes; 8-inch Archos 80 G9 Tablet and 10-inch Archos 101 G9 Tablet. Both G9 Tablets has a standard version: OMAP™ 4 smart multi-core ARM CORTEX A9 at 1GHz and Turbo version: OMAP™ 4 smart multi-core ARM CORTEX A9 from 1.2GHz to 1.5GHz (at start of 2012). What’s good with this is that for gamers and multimedia aficionados they can maximize the use of these tablets to experience…