>After The Box, Ghost Writer, Crazy Hearts and Everybody’s Fine – all movies I enjoyed watching in in Ayala Mall Cinemas (Greenbelt 3 and Glorietta 4) comes a George Clooney film entitled “The American” and it that will be exclusively shown on the same cinema. The American is directed by Anton Corbin and starring George Clooney, Thekla Reuten, Violante Placido, Johan Leysen, Irina Björklund, and Paolo Bonacelli. The film is based from the 1990 novel of Martin Booth entitled A Very Private Gentlemen.The movie follows the story of Jack (Clooney) who is an assassin hiding in an isolated town in…
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>Warner Bros Pictures brings another best-selling children book in the big screen and it will be directed by Zack Snyder the same director of 300 and Watchmen. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole is based from the novel created by Kathryn Lasky entitled Guardians of Ga’Hoole. The film will be shown in both 3D and regular format in all cinemas nationwide beginning September 24.The 3-D animation movie features the voice of Jim Sturgess (Soren), Geoffrey Rush (Ezylryb), Emily Barclay (Gylfie), Jay Laga’aia (Twilight), Helen Mirren (Nyra), David Wenham (Digger), Ryan Kwanten (Kludd) and Emilie de Ravin (Eglantine) where…
>Last September 11, E-Games with IAHGames of Singapore Barunson Interctive of Korea launches Dragonica Online in the Philippines at the Cyberzone area of SM North Annex in Quezon City. Dragonica Online is the latest casual MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) of IP e-Games and the only RPG games as of today that enables gamers to use joystick aside from the usual keyboard and mouse.Stanley Cheong the Art Director of Dragonica who is part of Buronson Interactive shares that Dragonica Online will give its gamers a manga-style action RPG with an 8-way, full 3D side scrolling system and new combo…
>SM Cares, the Corporate Social Responsibility division of SM Investment Corporation re-launches their Green Eco-Bag making it more stylish and appealing to the shoppers and those who wanted to extend it usage more than an alternative to plastic bags. From the usual “green” and simple design, SM Cares introduces four colors with unique designs on each bag. The four new designs includes; Flow (Dark Blue), Sparks (Orange), Breathe (Light Blue) and Renew (White and Green), each bag represents certain elements in the environment which SM Cares wanted to promote to their loyal shoppers. Flow represents water, sparks represent fire or…
>From drama, music and hosting, Megastar Sharon Cuneta will stepping to a new chapter of her career as the host of the two reality shows in ABS-CBN – Star Power and Biggest Loser Pinoy Edition. Aside from the two shows on ABS-CBN she will be hosting a lifestyle show in the Lifestyle Network entitled Sharon at Home.Sharon will be hosting the newest singing competition In ABS-CBN beginning October 10 entitled Star Power. The show is an all female singing show where Sharon aside from being the host of her weekly program, she will also help the contestants in their journey…
>Philippines is known for its long celebration of Christmas season from the first day of the ‘ber’ month which is September up to the feast of Epiphany or the Three Kings on January the following year. With this kind of tradition, Kraft Foods Philippines brings the Keso de Gallo Year 2, a long Christmas festivities where it features cheese infused dishes from 100 towns within the country. As we all remember the last year’s Keso de Gallo of Kraft Eden, the event brings home the Guinness World Record for having the biggest number of cheese infused dishes in one area…
>On September 11, Ateneo de Manila University’s Entablado, a socio-political theatre organization will open its 28th season with Christine Bellen’s original Filipino musical entitled “Si Pilandok at Ang Bayan ng Bulawan”. The musical play will be presented at the Meralco Theater (Ortigas Avenue corner Meralco Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City) on Saturday (September 11, 2010) at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.The musical play is inspired by the historical EDSA People Power Revolution where the play uses a “kwentong bayan” framework to encourage unity to each one towards nation building. Pilandok, the trickster of Bayan ng Bulawan, aims to retrieve the…
>Does the word arundinaceous mean long and thin or someone who talks too much? Is an aleconner a beer-taster or a kind of bird? Does scunner mean deep dislike or something you’d find on a boat?Questions like these have stumped millions of people across the globe since 2007, when Freerice.com – the world’s only vocabulary game that feeds the hungry – took the web by storm.Since then, the viral brain teaser has raised enough rice to feed more than 4.2 million people for a day in countries like Uganda and Bangladesh. Pakistan will be the latest destination following the unprecedented…
>Columbia Pictures brings Mark Wahlberg, Will Ferrell, Eva Mendes, Ray Stevenson, Samuel L. Jackson and Dwayne Johnson, in the action-comedy entitled The Other Guys that will be shown in all cinemas beginning October 13, 2010. The film is directed by Adam McKay.The Other Guys follows the two underdogs in the detective scene Allen Gamble (Ferrell) and Terry Hoitz (Wahlberg) who’s always in the shadow of two respective detectives in US; Christopher Danson and P.K. Highsmith (Johnson and Jackson). Hoping to have names of their own Gable and Hoitz tries to be on the “scene” and have their names for themselves…
>Last September 3, I am of the privilege few who were invited in the residence of Richard Nelson, the Counselor of the Public Office of US Embassy here in Manila. The dinner was to formalize Joseph Tordella and Allan Holst as the new member of their Cultural Affairs Department.(US Embassy-Manila Public Office Counselor Richard Nelson) The guests in Counselor Nelson’s residence was a gathering of different personalities from different fields and groups in the Philippines, there are diplomats, organization fronliners, celebrities, athletes, media practitioners, bloggers and youth. The dinner is just a presentation of what the Cultural Affairs is planning…