The pleasures of The Book of Life is found both in and outside the brackets. The story [within the story (within its story)] may be
Author: Armando Dela Cruz
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#TWD 5.3: ‘Four Walls and a Roof’
“Four Rooms and a Roof,” the stirring third episode of fifth-season The Walking Dead, marks what looks to be a dramatic swerve for the series.
V/H/S: Viral
The V/H/S films, as ever true in horror anthologies, are met with timid reception; they are at best uneven compilations of short feature-works by up-and-coming
Watch: The ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ trailer is here ahead of schedule; blame Hydra.
Marvel has taken to Twitter its explanation for the week-ahead release of their very much-awaited sequel epic Avengers: Age of Ultron. “Dammit, Hydra,” the tweet says. Marketer’s
Watch: Motion comic for Mervin Malonzo’s komiks ‘Tabi Po’
Those who have read Mervin Malonzo’s utterly terrifying first-volume of the “asuang” graphic-epic Tabi Po should be itching by now to get their hands on Isyu 2. Especially
#TWD 5.2: ‘Strangers’
The Walking Dead tends to grow laborious at times and it often does when its principal characters are gathered in a group. So it is rather
Scarlett Johansson as Motoko in live-action adaptation of ‘Ghost in the Shell’
Not that the prior eyed actor actually “looked” the part–that would be Margot Robbie (of Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wallstreet fame, had already said yes
FX: ‘American Horror Story’ is renewed for fifth season; no Jessica Lange?
Last week’s premiere of the much-anticipated fourth season of FX’s horror anthology series American Horror Story is promising. This may be applied to how the
Marvel confirms end of ‘Fantastic Four,’ forrealz this time
After a half-decade sway of cancellations and re-launches, Fantastic Four is officially cancelled. And while that rings much finality, think not. Although current FF writer
#TWD 5.1: ‘No Sanctuary’
The human race commit atrocities it eventually forgets. For whatever reason the thought lingers as I watch the fifth season premiere of The Walking Dead
TSZ #3: ‘Gone Girl’ (2014)
THE SPOILER ZONE is a haven (on a different dimension, perhaps? Erm, doesn’t matter…) in which one can further discuss a film most elaborate and
Watch: Trailer for ‘Ilustrado’: the first ‘Bayaniserye’ in PH television
Serving as annex to its main network, GMA News TV has apparently been pushing the boundaries of local television with the TV series productions of its
Watch: Ed Sheeran’s music video for crooner single ‘Thinking Out Loud’
Ed Sheeran is considered first a crooner–the type that seems to fall in and out of love on a daily basis–with songs suffused with doe-eyed
The Boxtrolls
Like its titular tinkerers, The Boxtrolls is drawn to a familiar patchwork of a story, collecting ‘scraps’ from other works of animation that are attuned
‘Gotham’ has found its Harvey Dent; Nicolas D’Agosto plays the role
Fox’s Gotham has booked an actor for the role of Harvey Dent. Nicholas D’Agosto, known most famously as the fictional doctor Ethan Haas in the
Watch: ‘American Horror Story: Freak Show’ horrific stop-motion opening
As if Jessica Lange singing a Lana Del Ray song is not enough reason to prowl at this season’s pilot of American Horror Story, creators Ryan Murphy
TSZ #2: ‘Dementia’ (2014)
THE SPOILER ZONE is a haven (on a different dimension, perhaps? Erm, doesn’t matter…) in which one can further discuss a film most elaborate and
The Babadook
Because it hides amorphous behind so many masks, no bogeyman is outgrown by its tormented. The Babadook, Jennifer Kent’s brilliant debut as director, appears latched
Maria Leonora Teresa
If the mechanics of terror are as superficial as placing drum-hits and cheat-scares, then the genre might as well be dismissed moot, at the easiest,