Category: Glitz and Glamour

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Anti-Marcos reaction to Sandro Marcos’s Rogue One tweet exposes them as chumps!

December 22, 2016December 22, 2016 FallenAngel 15 Comments

With just a four-word tweet, Sandro Marcos, son of Vice-Presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos, attracted all sorts of “mockery” from the anti-Marcos buzzing bees again: As handily summed up by local media, anti-Marcos people were quick to remind Sandro, that the movie Rogue One is “a story of a rebellion trying to overthrow an oppressive tyrannical…

Glitz and Glamour, Media, Politics

No More Nonsense Films For This Year’s MMFF: Why I Have Some Hope For The Media

December 4, 2016 Grimwald 6 Comments

Now, most of you have read enough of my work to know that I am often fiercely critical of the Philippine mainstream media. As a matter of fact, just about all of my articles involve bashing them in some way. However now, I begin to see a ray of hope for our local mainstream media…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Media, Society

Congratulations Kylie Verzosa, Miss International 2016!

October 28, 2016 benign0 6 Comments

Kylie Fausto Verzosa (born February 7, 1992) a Filipino model and beauty pageant titleholder was crowned Binibining Pilipinas International 2016 and Miss International 2016. Verzosa was born in Baguio City, Philippines. She graduated from Ateneo de Manila University with a bachelor’s degree in Business Management and works as a pre-school teacher. She is a teacher…

Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle

Jim Paredes sang anti-US song “American Junk” back in 1987

October 24, 2016 benign0 17 Comments

These are the lyrics to the song “American Junk” released by Jim Paredes and the Apo Hiking Society in 1987. Leave me alone to my third world devices I don’t need your technology You just want my natural resources And then you leave me poor and in misery Third world blues is what I got…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Politics, Society

Alternative Media 17: The Witch (A Must-See Horror Flick For This Halloween)

October 1, 2016 Grimwald 1 Comment

Well ladies and gentlemen, it’s October and we are just days away from good ol’ Halloween. Truth be told, as a matter of my family’s tradition, I never go out of my way to prepare early for Christmas. I tend to think of each year as a cycle of sorts and my year simply doesn’t…

Culture, Film Review, Glitz and Glamour, Media, Religion

The kind of “sexy” that Jessy Mendiola sells

September 30, 2016October 1, 2016 FallenAngel 11 Comments

Running through the highlights for the month of September 2016 would seem incomplete without mentioning Jessy Mendiola’s being on the cover of FHM (For Him Magazine) Philippines. It also looks like she’ll be making the cover of Cosmpolitan PH for its October 2016 issue. My colleague Ilda wrote about Jessy last July, in the context…

Glitz and Glamour, Media

My 3 Big Problems With Pinoy Mainstream Superheroes

September 15, 2016 Grimwald 11 Comments

Superheroes. They certainly are making a lot of money on the big screen these days, eh? After all, who doesn’t like them? I know few people who didn’t keep up with at least one superhero in their childhood. For me it was the likes of Spawn and Spider-Man and I found others who I became ingratiated with…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Media

Don’t Breathe: An Interesting Film For Our Troubled Times

August 5, 2016 Grimwald 1 Comment

Ladies and gentlemen, I have been told not to judge a film by it’s trailer just as one should not judge a book by its cover. However, when our webmaster Benign0 as well as other contributors like Zaxx, Chino F and Vladimir Santos made an example of the country’s current vigilante issues as an intruder…

Crime, Film Review, Glitz and Glamour