Harry Styles, Zack Tabudlo continue to unravel with beguiling releases
In his second No. 1 solo hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart “As It Was,” Harry Styles makes a welcome departure from his catchy rockers. The song, which is on its eighth nonconsecutive week on the top...
View ArticleRyan Gosling on creating ‘blue-collar Bond’ role
Ryan Gosling is known for a carefully curated body of work that is as diverse as his skillset as an actor. Indeed, the two-time Oscar nominee (“La La Land,” “Half Nelson”) isn’t just known for his...
View ArticleFlipping the script: Why playing a bad guy a ‘rewarding experience’ for Chris...
It’s easy to see how much fun Chris Evans is having as a bloodthirsty psychopath in Joe and Anthony Russo’s action-packed espionage thriller, “The Gray Man,” which launches on Netflix today. While...
View ArticleMCU stars brave the elements in extreme adventures with Bear Grylls
For many of the A-list celebrities who have kept British survivalist Bear Grylls company on challenge-driven adventures around the world, stepping outside their comfort zone gives them a much greater...
View ArticlePaulo Avelino on creating ‘dark’ characters: Acting comes with accumulated...
We were particularly thrilled by the dramatic prospects presented by the roles of Piolo Pascual and Lovi Poe — the former as a serial killer’s son who’s incapable of empathy, and the latter as an...
View ArticleLea Salonga and Malia Pyles: Forging the Filipino connection in ‘Pretty...
Lea Salonga couldn’t believe her luck when she was hired to play Elodie, the mother of Minnie aka Mouse Honrada (portrayed by Filipino American Malia Pyles) in “Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin,” the...
View ArticleBear Grylls on the stomach-churning ‘delicacies’ he feeds his celebrity guests
There are a lot of things that make “Running Wild With Bear Grylls” such a compelling watch, from the exotic locations he picks for his celebrity guests to the do-or-die challenges they’re made to go...
View ArticleBen&Ben beyond soaring melodies, crowd-pleasing musicality
What started out as light rain quickly deteriorated to a heavy downpour as the nine-member pop-rock/folk-pop band Ben&Ben, the Philippines’ most-streamed artist since 2020, was gearing up for its...
View ArticleTrouble in paradise: ‘House of the Dragon’ showrunners on the Targaryens’...
As they say, the past is never where you think you left it. But that’s exactly where the creators of HBO’s “House of the Dragon” (HOTD), the eagerly anticipated prequel of “Game of Thrones” (GoT), wish...
View ArticleAs GMA Network turns 72, grateful celebrities recall their milestones as a...
Who would have thought that the launch of dzBB, GMA Network’s first AM radio station in March 1950, would eventually turn that station into the multimedia giant it is today? So it’s just fitting for...
View ArticleWeighing in on GMA Network’s triumphs and upcoming projects
As mentioned in our article yesterday about GMA Network’s Thanksgiving Gala, there were as many of its stars as its movers and shakers. Adding superstar luster to the party at Shangri-La The Fort were...
View ArticleWith ingenue roles behind her, Lea Salonga loving the new opportunities...
Lea Salonga has always played ingenues in the characters she’s most known for. So it’s easy for anyone to imagine the Tony-winning actress-singer playing the tragic heroine Kim in “Miss Saigon” or...
View ArticleIdris Elba on the ‘fascinating merger’ of drama and edge-of-your-seat action...
The last time we spoke to Idris Elba, we were on the bullet train, the Shinkansen, from Kyoto to Tokyo to talk about his 2017 reality show “Idris Elba: Fighter.” “I don’t make decisions to please the...
View ArticleTerror in the clouds
For all of its beguiling narrative twists and Spielbergian bravado, Jordan Peele’s crowd-pleasing and gorgeously shot sci-fi-cum-horror yarn “Nope” is neither as terrifying nor as cohesive as “Get Out”...
View ArticleIsabel May on what sets ‘king of US primetime’ ‘Yellowstone’ apart from its...
Who would have thought that the biggest entertainment show on US TV this season could be found on cable? In fact, Variety calls the neo-Western drama series “Yellowstone” the “new king of primetime,”...
View ArticleMeeting Viserys: Paddy Considine on the Targaryen king’s Solomonic choices
Is “House of the Dragon” just about blood, guts, gore and nothing more? Not if we go by “The Heirs of the Dragon,” the first episode of the brand-new series’ hugely anticipated pilot season. In fact,...
View ArticleShowrunner JD Payne on ‘LOTR: The Rings of Power’s’ reason for being
There’s good reason for fans of “The Lord of the Rings” to get excited about. The series “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” which launches its 10-episode first season on Prime Video on Sept....
View ArticleSharlto Copley on his encounters with lions, escaping a rhino charge
There are two families in peril in Baltasar Kormakur’s man-versus-lion thriller “Beast”: The family of Dr. Nate Samuels (Idris Elba), whose members are still reeling from the death of Nate’s...
View ArticleLea Salonga on the satisfaction she gets from singing, acting
As much an OPM icon (“Bakit Labis kitang Mahal,” “If Only”) as she is a theater legend, we asked Lea Salonga to describe how different the satisfaction she gets from acting compared to singing—which is...
View ArticleJo Koy on how Steven Spielberg helped him bring ‘Easter Sunday’ to life
We have already interviewed Jo Koy a number of times in the past, but seeing the 51-year-old Filipino-American stand-up comic in the flesh last Tuesday and talking to him about “Easter Sunday,” the...
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