The start of the Year of the Wooden Snake offers the public a young boy named Liam Rhys E. Jalla, a ten-year-old talent of filmmaker Mark Arvin Agcaoili Bago. We enjoin you, dear readers, to support Liam Rhys as he journeys in this wonderful yet cruel world of show business. Jalla loves singing so he prefers to concentrate in music …
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The moment the 2024 Metro Manila Film Festival Gabi ng Parangal (awards night) proclaimed Dennis Trillo and Ruru Madrid as Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, respectively, for GMA Pictures’ “Green Bones,” their common director Zig Dulay was triumphant and proud of their artistic achievements. “Your success is also my success,” wrote Zig in his Facebook wall. “From the first …
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Not only are they publicly showing their real life romance after all these years, Coco Martin and Julia Montes are displaying their love for farming to sustain life. Coco and Julia are advocating the return to agriculture for ordinary Filipinos that include them for sustainable food and economy. According to DragonFruitDepot, Martin and Montes are aggressive and progressive leaders in …
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Aside from being an elder sister, my late Ate (a term of endearment to an older woman by blood or by affinity) Lily V. Arriero was a confidante in many of my entertainment beat reporting ways. She might not be a fan or as you may say, fond (pun intended), of showbiz news, i.e., hot items (read: gossip) but she …
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Filipino production companies Balin Remjus Inc. and Great Media Productions, Inc. have announced that “Nasaan Si Hesus?,” a play written by the late Nestor U. Torre with music and lyrics by Mrs. Lourdes “Bing” Pimentel, is now a major motion picture. Its ensemble cast is composed of stars that have made a mark in the fields of singing and acting; …
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Despite her many socio-civic activities, Asia’s Sentimental Songstress and Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) Director Imelda A. Papin has still ample time to showcase her singing prowess. On January 25, 2025 at the Newport Performing Arts of the Manila Resorts World, Imelda will once again set the stage ablaze with her fiery and pulsating performance for charity. The show is …
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By Boy Villasanta The beginning of the year marks the birthday celebration of Ihman Basas Esturco, Coco Martin’s ex-talent manager who has been a perennial balikbayan during this season to mark time and again his nth summers. 2025 is as significant and memorable for Ihman as any of his birthdays in the past. It is because Coco was again around, this time, …
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Apparently, the quality component in the current lineup to the 2024 Metro Manila Film Festival has improved compared to the selection in the past editions when critics and non-critics alike—which included this writer as an ordinary moviegoer—would complain about the poor quality of some of the entries. In the present eclectic menu, the films are indeed proudly festival worthy. Not …
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Although Madam Suzette Arandela is a well-known feng shui expert and psychic of well-rounded possibilities in government, economy, ecology, religion, sports etc., she is also a popular seer about the entertainment field. Her multimedia appearances reveal her penchant for predicting events to happen this Year of the Wooden Snake which will commence on January 29, 2025. In showbiz, Madam Suzette …
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How is it reimagining in a film the Philippine entertainment export to Japan in the 1980s and 1990s when the Japanese government was open to Filipino entertainers performing in the House of the Rising Sun? And how is it if the narrative involves Filipino transgenders? Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Brillante Ma. Mendoza immediately replied to the query. “Napakakulay ng mga karanasan …
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