Limelight

By Boy Villasanta Filipino film artists are indeed world-class. This was proven again by director Kyla Romero who was recognized at the closing of the 2024 Spanish Film Festival at the Red Carpet Cinema in Shangri-La Plaza in Mandaluyong City recently. Kyla presented her short film “Transients” during the duration of the 23rd Spanish film fest that ended last October …

By Boy Villasanta From October 15 to 26, 2024, the Filipinos are treated with an avalanche of performance arts in every nook and cranny of Philippine society. “In Situ, Performance and Exhibition” the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) with the collaboration of Belarmino & Partners provide the nation with practical and realistic art forms that can liberate the hearts …

By Boy Villasanta Among the universities and colleges in the Philippines, the University of Santo Tomas (UST) Faculty of Arts and Letters has remained one of the most prolific institutions to have produced and graduated outstanding multimedia practitioners in the country since its inception in 1965. To name only a few, there were National Artists for Literature Bienvenido Lumbera and …

What makes it more colorful and glitzier is the special participation of show people with hardcore politicians and other wannabes. The 2025 midterm elections are showstoppers set on May 12 whose filing of the Certificates of Candidacy (CoC) has ended on Tuesday, October 8, 2024. Look ma! Here is the list of celebrities—movie, film, theater, music and multimedia who are …

After almost a year of absence from the local entertainment scene, Lovi Poe—so-called Supreme Actress of the Philippines—is back in town. Lovi missed her life back home so much that she requested her husband, film producer and businessman Monty Biencowe whom she described as an amazing husband who wouldn’t stop her from doing what she loves to do—acting and visiting …

By Audie See Mia Japson, 15, really wants to be a singer who writes her own songs, and puts them all in albums that she can truly call her own. She is just in junior high school. But she has been willing to compromise just so she can break into the recording scene legitimately. She allowed herself to record Vehnee …

While in Bangkok, Thailand last week for a fashion show of Michael Leyva creations, model-actress Heart Evangelista wanted to pull back the hands of time to come home soon because she missed her husband, Senator Chiz Escudero and her dogs.  (Boy Vilasanta) 

Action superstar Rhene Imperial is Male Star of the Night at the RF3 world event billed as “Rebirth of the Stars” held at the SMX Convention Center in Mall of Asia Arena. In attendance were the owner of the company, Malaysian Datu Nazerie Omar and Country Manager Allan Taunan. (Boy Vilasanta)

by Boy Villasanta When music master Felipe M. de Leon talks, everybody listens. His words are taken seriously not only by Filipinos but the whole world as well. Because Felipe de Leon aside from an erudite person is a compassionate artist as well. During his tenure as Chairman of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), the agency …

Two-time Paris Olympics gold medalist Carlos Yulo has been the center of controversy and a conversation piece from among pundits and observers about his pronouncements against his own mother, Angelica Poquiz Yulo. Carlos lambasted his mom for her unauthorized withdrawal from his bank account. Even if the mother has already apologized to him in public, the Olympian continues to say …