Limelight

he COVID-19 pandemic involves a different kind of war with medical professionals – doctors, nurses and other medical or health care workers – risking their lives to save others These medical frontliners are fighting an “unseen enemy” while coping desperately with scarcity of alcohol, face masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE). The country’s health care system has been inundated …

Today, people turn to music, playing instruments or singing as a way of coping during the global lockdown. Music seems to soothe us when the going gets tough.

Bea Alonzo remind people that aside from taking care of physical health, one must also look after their mental health in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis.

Ethel Booba revealed the “true story” behind the controversial Twitter account that she disowned recently.

How far can a mother go and fight all odds to protect her children? Alessandra de Rossi tries to answer this question in her new movie, “Watch List.”

Teenage pop iconoclast Billie Eilish dropped her James Bond theme tune, racking up 2.2 million views in just six hours as the teenage prodigy continues her rapid rise.

South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho became Hollywood’s man of the hour, with his Parasite making history as the first-ever non-English language film to win Best Picture at the Oscars.

Marcelito Pomoy bowed out of the quest to be grand winner of “America’s Got Talent: The Champions” talent competition after he was named third runner-up.

I didn’t manage to catch all the ten (10) official entries to the Full-Length category of the 15th Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival recently held at the various theaters of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) and currently showing in cinema malls of Ayala and Vista Malls Evia Lifestyle Center in the country.

Filipinos especially Noranians are heaping hosannas on Francis Tanseco, the artist who painted actress Nora Aunor in colorful canvasses he mounted them in a one-man show some years back at the upper ramp of the Rizal Park Open Air Auditorium where Nora fanatics trooped to witness the visual representations of their idol in variations. After the successful exhibit, Francis did …