Limelight

What is it like gathering artists with Filipino blood in the firmament of the US entertainment industry? After acclaimed Lea Salonga was feted with a star at the prestigious Hollywood Walk of Fame held in front of Pantages Theater in Hollywood Boulevard, she was honored with the Icon Award for her enormous contributions to world entertainment at the awards night …

There are pros and cons on issues, showbiz or not. The selection of the 2025 National Artists is one recent event where opinions vary. When Malacanang recently announced the official list of National Artists that include Gabriel Formoso for Architecture (Posthumous), Nonoy Froilan for Dance, Patis Tesoro for Design, Armando “Bing” Lao for Film and Broadcast Arts (Posthumous), Gregorio C. …

The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) andMetropolitan Theater (MET) recently launched “Saplot ng Entablado: Kasuotang Pilipino sa Sining, Tanghalan, at Pamana” at the Metropolitan Theater Gallery that marks the celebration of Linggo ng Kasuotang Pilipino 2026 on the third week of September every year in pursuant to Presidential Proclamation No. 241. The exhibition brings together Filipino attire …

It is indeed relevant that Frank G. Rivera’s zarzuela, “Ambon Ulan Baha” is restaged after three decades in the same venue at this time of catastrophes particularly typhoons, flash floods, landslides, glacier breakdown etc. What are the lessons people should learn from the remounting of the play on September 26 and 27, 20026 at the Metropolitan Theater? “What once seemed …

Internationally renowned director Lav Diaz’s newest masterpiece, “Makikiraan Po (Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors)” has just won the  Premio Brian (Brian Award), one of the special awards of the 83rd Venice International Film Festival in Italy. According to Bong Cabrera, one of the actors in the film about Spanish conquest of the Philippines, the “…Brian Award: the UAAR (Unione degli Atei e …

by Boy Villasanta If there’s one distinctive if not peculiar feature of this year’s Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival, it’s the ubiquitous presence of kids in the number of official entries, both in the Full-Length Features and Short Films. They aren’t simply kids but highly exceptional children who can act before the movie cameras. It was Cinemalaya Foundation President Laurice …

Comedienne Pokwang should be emulated for her taking risks in experimenting on role playing, particularly in the movies. We take off our hats to her when she accepted the challenging role of Sylvia, a wife who braved the bureaucratic red tape to secure an ID just to claim a remittance money to pay for her husband’s hospitalization in the socially …

How’s idol Diether Ocampo these days? After he starred in Darryl Yap’s “Martyr or Murderer” as Sebastian Duterte in 2023, nothing has been heard of the good-looking actor. How’s his love life? A juicy item has just cropped up from the grapevine, though. Our spy from General Trias, Cavite said that Diether and Dasmarinas City Mayor Jenny Barzaga are seen …

From being a film actor in Lino Brocka’s “Hellow Soldier,” a segment in the trilogy “Tatlo, Dalawa, Isa” (1974) to a publicist of Sharon Cuneta, Rey Valera, Freddie Aguilar, Imelda Papin etc. in Vicor Recording Company and Blackgold Records to a print and TVC ad model for GE Refrigerator and Diners Card, the virile Edgar Santiago is very much on …

“In This Moment,” a feature directorial debut from queer Filipino American filmmaker Mike Talplacido recently made its world premiere at the iconic Roxie Theater as an official selection of the San Francisco Queer Film Festival 2026. Set in North Carolina, “In This Moment” follows a Fil-Am writer and his husband as they grapple with infidelity, caregiving, loss and the possibility …