Joel Trinidad on ‘Breakups’ musical, stepping out of famous dad’s shadow
Actor-producer Joel Trinidad may have thoroughly enjoyed staging “Company,” “Spamalot” and other Broadway-originated musicals for Philippine theatergoers to savor. But the seasoned multihyphenate...
View Article‘Succession’: Seismic twists put scheming siblings through the wringer
If you’ve fallen hook, line and sinker for the inventively realized narrative tricks and mic-dropping twists that have come out of “Succession,” get ready to buckle up for an even more exhilarating...
View Article‘Scriptless’ Jennifer Aniston, Adam Sandler as funny as their screen personas
We have spoken to so many celebrities since we began writing for the Inquirer in 1995. But our recent roundtable chat with Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler for “Murder Mystery 2,” the sequel to the...
View ArticleHow ‘Call It Love’ explores gray areas of revenge and romantic attraction
The K-drama series “Call It Love,” starring actor-models Lee Sung-kyoung (“Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo”) and Kim Young-kwang (“The Secret Life of My Secretary”), isn’t just fascinating for its...
View ArticleMarkki Stroem breathes life—and redeeming love—into ‘treacherous’ character
It wasn’t just a case of an actor raring for a shot at a coveted role. In fact, playing telegram messenger Rolf Gruber in the international touring production of “The Sound of Music,” which had its...
View ArticleWith ‘superstars’ in tow, Super Mario jumps to the big screen in eye-candy...
Jack Black couldn’t have said it better when asked in a recent press con how he would describe the blockbuster animated film “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” where he plays the titular character’s...
View ArticleJack Black on playing a villain: What would ‘Star Wars’ be without Darth Vader?
Jack Black, who voices Bowser in “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” said in a recent interview that he had so much fun playing the villain in the animated film—and here’s why: “Let’s face it, many times a...
View ArticleAnother vanishing act from Robert Downey Jr. in ‘The Sympathizer’
Not even his career-defining portrayal of Tony Stark aka Iron-Man can put Robert Downey Jr.’s thespic gifts in a pigeonhole. Any movie aficionado worth his salt is aware of the actor’s other prized...
View ArticleNicholas Hoult on reuniting with Nicolas Cage, eating real bugs
Nicholas Hoult was only 15 years old when he was cast as Nicolas Cage’s problematic teenage son in Gore Verbinski’s 2005 existentialist “dramedy,” “The Weather Man,” about a man caught in the grips of...
View ArticleWhy it was ‘so easy’ for Ben Schwartz to act with Nicolas Cage in ‘Renfield’
Seeing Nicolas Cage transform into whatever role he sets out to do is something that viewers and costars alike can’t easily forget, swears his coactor Ben Schwartz when Inquirer Entertainment spoke to...
View ArticleGolda Rosheuvel on ‘Bridgerton’ spinoff: ‘Queen Charlotte’ is ‘delicate in...
One of the elements that makes “Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story” a fascinating spinoff is the way it weaves the so-called Great Experiment into a tale that astutely “desegregates the predominantly...
View ArticleChad Borja, Gina Respall go ‘dancing’ in dreamy, jazzy duet
If you think you haven’t been hearing enough jazzy tunes from OPM’s treasure trove of contemporary music lately, the toe-tapping patter and feel-good vibe of the tantalizing new single “Moonlight...
View ArticleElizabeth Olsen, Jesse Plemons dissect love and tragedy in gripping true...
What would drive a churchgoing, choir-singing mother of two to hit another housewife with an ax 41 times? That isn’t just a click-baiting, “miron”-drawing plot from a writer’s overactive imagination....
View ArticleJodi Sta. Maria on her ‘historic’ project, completing her bucket list
Jodi Sta. Maria says she doesn’t always agree with the decisions her screen characters make — and that’s when she’s able to put her experience and time-honed empathy to good use. “When you embark on a...
View ArticleChris Pratt, costars on bittersweet finale for ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’
Director James Gunn gives the quirky bunch of Marvel Studios’ “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” a fitting sendoff with a film that is as heartwarming as it is spectacular. Yes, fanboys and movie buffs...
View Article‘He doesn’t sleep’: How Chukwudi Iwuji channeled Henry IV to play ‘Guardians’...
If you’ve already seen “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” which opened in Philippine theaters last Wednesday, you must have realized by now how snug fit the High Evolutionary (Chukwudi Iwuji) is for the...
View Article‘Walking Dead’ creator opens up about his fascination with the undead
We’ve always been fascinated by “The Walking Dead” creator Robert Kirkman, not only because of the compelling stories he brings to life, but also because of the clickbait situations he occasionally...
View ArticleDavid E. Kelley on why there are 2 competing shows tackling the same murder case
We were just as thrilled to speak to writer-creator David E. Kelley and director Lesli Linka Glatter as we were with the award-worthy lead stars of the seven-part true-to-life series “Love &...
View ArticleJodi Sta. Maria as a mom: I know when to step back
Since it’s Mother’s Day, we asked Jodi Sta. Maria what she learned from her mom that’s helping her raise her teenage son, Thirdy Lacson. “My mother has always been so patient with me,” she shared. “Her...
View ArticleLily Rabe on Nicole Kidman’s ‘impeccable taste,’ ‘red flags’ in acting
We wouldn’t be surprised if Lily Rabe and Patrick Fugit end up getting nominated for their indelible turns in HBO Go’s true-crime series, “Love & Death.” In the seven-part drama, Lily plays Betty,...
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