Nadine Flores

Space exploration has come a long way, and Ad Astra offers a peek into the near future that’s alarmingly grounded in today’s truths. It dared to ask questions that we often skirt around when talk of aerospace technology comes up: Have we already done enough?

Joker (2019) is one of the most highly-anticipated films of the year, thanks to all the buzz surrounding it. After snatching the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and receiving an eight-minute standing ovation on its premiere, we expect this movie to make history⁠—and it delivered. But this hype proved to be a double-edged sword: as with anything else that tries to be profound these days, there’s a rising worry that the film might attract the wrong crowd.

Following the events of Heneral Luna and Angelito, Goyo opens with a somber note as the voice of Apolinario Mabini (played by the talented Epy Quizon) drops his revelations. The film no longer concerns itself with the question of historical accuracy, but rather focuses on being a stark reflection of the fatal flaws the Filipino nation still suffers from today: blind idolatry and tribalism.

Oscar nominee, The Post, is the story of how the media in the 70’s challenged the law, and why it came to be known as more than just a landmark case cited in textbooks and in court. Featuring big names in showbiz such as Merryl Streep playing the first female publisher of The Washington Post, Katharine Graham and her executive editor, Ben Bradlee, played by Tom Hanks, the film delivers a fine mix of drama with escalating tension and intellectual content that’s sure to leave you reflecting on your own principles as the end credits roll.

A recent online trend, #MeToo, in which women across the globe share their personal experiences of being sexually harassed or abused, has been steadily picking up the pace with over half a million stories (and counting!) posted across Twitter and Facebook.

Romanticizing real-life events in order to amp up the drama is a common habit of biopics, but not this one. I, Tonya’s unique take on the life and career of retired figure skater Tonya Harding (now Tonya Price), presents several different perspectives from the side of her former husband, Jeff Gillooly, her abusive mother, LaVona Golden, and her first coach, Diane Rawlinson, without losing track of Tonya’s own telling of her side of “The Incident”.

After a successful release into the global market, the ASUS ROG Phone isn’t done making heads turn with its features. As promised, we spent more time exploring this gaming phone to see what else it has to offer.

The BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) industry has changed ever since it was first introduced around the late 80’s. In the following decade after companies have discovered its benefits, more and more enterprises shifted focus towards cost-effective measures and outsourced necessary business processes.