For Enchong and Jasmine, streaming platforms expand artists’ reach
We all miss the unique, immersive experience of watching films on the big screen. Streaming movies and TV series on platforms like Netflix, HBO Go, Amazon Prime, Disney+, Apple TV+, iWantTFC, iwant and...
View ArticleIsabel Sandoval on transitioning
One of the best interviews we’ve conducted last year was the one with multihyphenate Isabel Sandoval, the writer, director and lead actress of the award-winning film “Lingua Franca,” about an...
View ArticleExposing trafficking a life-or-death pursuit for Mariana van Zeller
When people turn a blind eye, black markets flourish. That, for the most part, is the overarching theme characterizing each episode of Peabody-winning investigative journalist Mariana van Zeller’s...
View Article‘MBA lessons’ from Tiger Queen
Despite the pandemic easily magnifying humanity’s self-inflicted woes, National Geographic continues to throw its support for wildlife conservation and protection of the environment—because poachers...
View ArticleOlivia Munn on growing up an outsider and the superpowers she wants to have
It sucks to be different, particularly if you’re young and still coming to terms with confusing notions of identity and the need for acceptance in a world that discriminates against people it doesn’t...
View ArticleFor the love of (big) cats
There’s zero justification for breeding wildlife in captivity.” That’s wildlife filmmaker Dereck Joubert speaking with convincing vehemence during our recent video chat with him and his lovely wife...
View ArticleAlan Tudyk gets rare shot at solo stardom–at 49
If we were to get stranded during a virus-instigated lockdown, we’d much rather get holed up in a place like Patience, Colorado. It’s a quaint but visually breathtaking fictional tiny town in the...
View ArticleSean Murray on how US TV’s No. 1 ‘most-watched entertainment series’ keeps...
If you’re having difficulty making heads or tails of the staying power of the five-year-old Filipino action series “Ang Probinsyano,” perhaps it’d be more instructive for you to emerge from under a...
View ArticleEverything you’ve always wanted to know about Dayglow
Influential music site NME calls him an “indie pop wunderkind,” while Ones To Watch describes his music as “the antidote for dark pop, brimming with infectious bliss and hope.” Indeed, 21-year-old...
View ArticleWhy James Purefoy wants to take a bite out of Matthew Goode’s neck
If you could pick who to interview from the exceptional cast of the TV series “A Discovery of Witches,” who would you choose? That was exactly the “nice” dilemma I faced the first time the idea of a...
View ArticleAlice Wetterlund and Sara Tomko on meeting aliens, surviving abuse and man’s...
They’re part of a new sci-fi show that’s getting a lot of love from both critics and televiewers. On Rotten Tomatoes, “Resident Alien’s” average rating from critics is 93 percent, while its audience...
View ArticleWhat heartbreak taught Janine Gutierrez about herself
How can an actress be as ballsy as she is sweet? Ask our Valentine girl Janine Gutierrez, who has elevated that unlikely mix of attributes to an art form. The 31-year-old “recently reinvented” star...
View ArticleOlivia’s lessons from the lockdown
During our recent interview with Olivia Munn, the lovely star of “The Rook” had insightful things to say about how she looks back at 2020, stay productive and move forward in this virus-stricken world....
View ArticleDaya on winning a Grammy: Pressure is a privilege
She could just “sit still, look pretty” if she wanted to, but singer-songwriter Daya isn’t really known to play hooky with her career choices or music—as her signature hit song declares. It’s probably...
View Article‘Allen v. Farrow’: Docu on 29-year-old sexual abuse case a moral reckoning in...
It’s more a case of David and Goliath than “Batman v Superman.” Indeed, while the two conflicting parties grappling for their versions of the truth in HBO’s explosive four-part documentary “Allen v....
View ArticleMaggie’s back!
The penultimate 10th season of the hugely popular post-apocalyptic zombie series “The Walking Dead” (TWD) arrived in October last year hot on the heels of its highest-rated season ever on Rotten...
View Article‘Superman & Lois’: The Man of Steel gets real
Lex Luthor may have been the thorn in Superman’s side since the megalomaniac was first introduced in a comic book in 1940. But other than the bald-headed mad genius, there’s really not much that fazes...
View ArticleMethod to Paloma Faith’s disarming madness
It’s the sort of “rising from the ranks” that should have come much sooner for Paloma Faith, the British singer-actress responsible for the deliciously wicked portrayal of sadistic sociopath Bet Sykes...
View ArticleMonsters in our midst
The horror drama anthology “Monsterland” (Wednesdays at 10 p.m. on FX) shows viewers how loss, loneliness, guilt and regret can bring out not just the monsters and fallen angels lurking in our midst,...
View ArticleConnecting with Chris Evans
Super nice guy. That’s the sort of glowing description you want people to say when you ask them about how it was meeting one of the actors you admire, like a confirmation of what you think you already...
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