Stripping off of her loud and raunchy caricatures, Ai-Ai de las Alas is cop-woman in-distress in Nick Olanka’s second Cinemalaya effort, Ronda in which she plays a patrolling policewoman forced to arrest her own son. We have the thirty-second teaser (see above video) and a couple of stills from the film. There
Day: July 31, 2014
“Latch” by Disclosure (ft. Sam Smith)
The irrepressible high of falling in love resonates in intoxicating surges of synthpop in Latch, Disclosure’s effusive and most ambitious track in their terrific debut album Settle — featuring UK singer Sam Smith. Accompanied by a music video that translates the track’s overall vibe (see above video), Latch winds through its pulsating beats, awash with transporting synth-waves by
Dean Koontz on Having Invented the Cross-Genre Novel: “that’s not correct.”
Dean Koontz is always two voices in one modest rhythm; he is author to supernatural thrillers and science-fiction paperbacks (the Odd Thomas books and Watchers, I enjoy very much), works that can go the extra mile of crazy (a scrabble-playing dog, for example, is unforgettable) but all at once can establish a work of
Bloody First Poster Confirms 2015 Release for Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight”
Like a dieting mom and a freshly-baked cinnabon, Quentin Tarantino and his upcoming western The Hateful Eight is in a complicated relationship: there was no knowing whether he was going to carry on with the project, not until last weekend’s Comic-Con, where he confirmed he is indeed engaging commitment to the project. The striking promo-poster,