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Stars vs. Zombies

Plants vs Zombies The soul-sucking reality of indie movie distribution, and the sweet triumph when it works. By Jessica Zafra You love the movies so you become a screenwriter. You write scripts for Star Cinema, the number one movie studio in the country. It's an arduous process, like giving birth to a baby that is [...]

The winner of LitWit Challenge 7.0: What would you say to your 10-year-old self? iiissss…

Our favorite Steven Soderbergh movie is one of his earliest: King of the Hill, in which little Jesse Bradford is left to fend for himself in a fleabag hotel during the Depression. Based on the memoir of A.E. Hotchner. We asked readers what advice they would offer if they ran into themselves at age 10. [...]

Our favorite sexy imp goes home with Emmy

Peter Dinklage, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series at the 2011 Emmys. Tyrion Lannister rules Westeros! Thanks to brewhuh23 for the alert.

The winner of LitWit Challenge 7.0: What would you say to your 10-year-old self? iiissss…

Our favorite Steven Soderbergh movie is one of his earliest: King of the Hill, in which little Jesse Bradford is left to fend for himself in a fleabag hotel during the Depression. Based on the memoir of A.E. Hotchner. We asked readers what advice they would offer if they ran into themselves at age 10. [...]

Jessica Rules TV: Jon on seeing the P.I., speaking Tagalog, his nomadic existence and girlfriend to city ratio

Jon Morales is the captain of the Nomads rugby football club, an NGO worker and member of the national men's rugby team the Volcanoes. He is also our straight guy columnist and part-time movie reviewer.

Ang taroush! Christian Espiritu reviews James Reyes

Purity of Lines and Intent by Christian De Leon Espiritu After a heavily rich smorgasbord, a collection of interesting fashion numbers employing all known dress maker's trickery and magic sorcery, one may fear the ensuing entry would surely suffer by sheer comparison. That did not hold water at the September 8th episode of Fashion Watch [...]

Happy Birthday, Cookie!

Here we are at my sister's birthday lunch, which also marked the first time she's been out of the house in over a week. Doctor's orders: She had to be locked up to keep her from sneaking off to the office. Because she just found out that she's pregnant! My niece Koba Stalin Mika, anticipating [...]

Hitchens on waiters who interrupt your conversations

Cartoon by Donna Barstow Recently we wrote about waiters butting into our spoken stream of consciousness at the table to ask us if everything is all right. Obviously it was all right and we were scintillating until he rudely broke in. (However, since this is the Philippines, we would be considered the rude ones. Argh.) [...]

Our straight guy columnist reviews Friends With Benefits

by Jon Morales Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake in Friends With Benefits I'm not a huge fan of rom-coms. The predictable plot arcs, the stock characters and the happy endings are a bit boring. The only way for a rom-com to win me over is through the charm of the main characters. Friends with Benefits [...]

Auntie Janey's Old-Fashioned Agony Column # 28: Do not drop everything and move to your new boyfriend's city. Just don't.

Dear Auntie Janey, It's been a month since my first gay relationship ended but I still can't move on. Last week, just when I had poured my guts out and said I still liked him and wanted to get back together, I find he's got somebody else. His current actually told me to back off. [...]