"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty." - Edward Roscoe Murrow Martial Law is long gone but we must never forget it. The McCarthy witch-hunt is a thing of the past, but as the movie Good Night and Good Luck (2005) showed, the world should constantly be reminded of it to prevent the same from… Continue reading Goodnight and Goodluck – Media and Freedom
Category: Column article
article published under my column Quantum Cinema
What The Bleep Do We Know?
This is from my QUANTUM CINEMA column in Mr. & Ms. Magazine, May - June 2008 issue: ============================================================== I have just finished watching for the nth time the documentary What The Bleep Do We Know? Enthusiasts of the documentary The Secret, which has since been made into a book, should watch this one as it… Continue reading What The Bleep Do We Know?
ERAGON and THE FOUNTAIN – Film Reviews
Below is an article Of Dragons, Magic, Immortality, and Special Effects from my magazine column, QUANTUM CINEMA in M. & Ms. Magazine, March 2007 Two fantasy films are making the rounds of the world’s movie houses this year – Eragon and The Fountain. One is about mythical beasts in a mythical land which looks… Continue reading ERAGON and THE FOUNTAIN – Film Reviews
Deconstructing Da Vinci Code during Lent
When I was a kid, all TV programs and movies in the Philippine were all related to the story of Jesus Christ or the Bible. Because of this, I saw The Ten Commandments, The Bible, Ben Hur, Samson and Delilah, David and Bathsheba, The Robe, and films like these more than ten times at least.… Continue reading Deconstructing Da Vinci Code during Lent
Mary Magdalene, Judas and the Da Vinci Code Origins
March 8, 2008 is International Women's Day. On this day, women all over the world not only celebrate the role of women in today's society but also to fight for more women's rights.Women have been maligned in literature and myth just as much, if not worse than in real life. One such woman was Mary… Continue reading Mary Magdalene, Judas and the Da Vinci Code Origins
Harry Potter: Order of the Phoenix
From my QUANTUM CINEMA column in Mr. & Ms. Magazine, Supermonthly of the Body, Mind and Spirit, Sept. 2007: After a very disappointing Goblet of Fire, English Director David Yates brought Magic back in Harry Potter: The Order of the Phoenix, the 5th installment of the Harry Potter series based on the phenomenal novels of J.K.… Continue reading Harry Potter: Order of the Phoenix
Postprandial Musings, 2.0 