Limelight

When John Lloyd Cruz resurfaced publicly two years ago after almost a two-year hiatus and eventual romantic break-up with Ellen Adarna he seemed to shock many people with his beard and long hair he showed without hesitation.

Actor and TV host Luis Manzano knows how to put one’s money where his mouth is.

He might not be around at the Palazzo del Cinema in Venice, Italy Saturday night but Filipino actor John Arcilla was in excitement in absentia as he received the good news at his home base in the Philippines that he won the prestigious Coppa Volpi Best Actor for is convincing portrayal of an Filipino journalist who is investigating the mysterious …

It takes a committed artist as Mae Paner to mount a no-nonsense, brave if not fierce production as “Tao Po.”

Since 2017, the prestigious Busan International Film Festival in South Korea has created the Kim Jiseok Award in loving memory of the festival late programmer and it is one of the most anticipated awards in the A-list Asian film event.

When Richard Hiñola II got into show business, he was, initially an actor and many more.

Traditional bands in the Philippines would mean “bugle corps-type” in schools or rural communities or marching bands in towns or barrios like Banda 24 or the bands performed by orchestras.

It was a calendar scheduled way before the death of former president Benigno C. Aquino III albeit heavy heart Kris Aquino pursued her trip to the US yesterday, a plan disclosed in her social media post.

Now it’s official.

There were times when my family barely had two pesos in our pockets. My parents had seven children. Their earnings were barely enough for all of us. Those were very hard times but we didn’t stop dreaming. With a lot of sacrifice I finished med school in Pampanga. That still wasn’t enough. I took advantage of working in the US …