Limelight

The seventh and final season of The Mentalist kicks off this month on Warner TV with this question: After Patrick Jane (Simon Baker) finally confessed his love for California Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Senior Agent Teresa Lisbon (Robin Tunney), will viewers finally see a romance blossoming between them? 

Maine Mendoza, one half of the overwhelmingly popular “AlDub” love team that not only took the Philippines, but also the world, by storm, is now a proud endorser of Banco de Oro (BDO) Unibank, one of the country’s top banks. 

Three years ago, a film by Jeffrey Jeturian that starred Vilma Santos premiered at the Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival. Titled Ekstra (Extra, or as it’s known overseas, The Bit Player), the film follows a very long day in the life of a middle-aged single mother who endures indignities as one of the many bit players in a popular telenovela. 

by Alvin I. Dacanay  If there’s one thing that stands out in the second edition of the CineFilipino Film Festival, which will open this week and has “Kwento pa rin ang hari (Story is still king)” as its theme, it’s the accessibility and diversity of the entries in different categories—nine full-length films, five documentaries, five television series, and 17 short …

In celebration of South­east Asian cinema and culture, three Filipino films that were previously shown at the 2015 World Premieres Film Festival (WPFF) are being screened with select movies from the region at the Film Devel­opment Council of the Philippines’s (FDCP) Cin­ematheque Center Manila this month as part of Asean (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Film Aware­ness Month.

Independent Philippine Art Ventures Inc. is set to present wonderful contemporary and classical guitar music from three outstanding guitar players from Japan—Tomonori Arai, Eisei Tanigawa and Takashi Endo, with the latter two better known as Duo Trussardi—who will play in a show titled Three, Two, One…Arai! at the University of the Philippines (UP) College of Music’s Abelardo Hall at 5:30 …

By Alvin I. Dacanay On Monday (Manila time), film buffs will finally learn who will bring home the American entertainment industry’s most coveted trophies when the 88th Annual Academy Awards reveals its winners in a star-studded ceremony at Hollywood’s Dolby Theater. 

By now, many Filipinos—from politicians and journalists to entertainers and activists to pastors and prelates—have weighed in on boxing icon and delinquent legislator Manny Pacquiao’s outrageous comments about gays and lesbians in relationships being worse than animals on various media, and on the unprecedented backlash the aspiring senator’s carelessly chosen words have generated.

Award-winning actress and television personality Iza Calzado has been appointed at the newest national ambassador of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)-Philippines, the environmental organization said recently.

Among the 12 months, February is particularly important for Filipinos in the arts. It is, after all, National Arts Month, and for many performing-arts companies, this is when they mount their season-closing productions. If you want to see the local arts scene as its most visible and, it can be argued, most vibrant, then there is no better time than …