Tag: superman

Attacking Mocha Uson only makes her stronger and her influence more powerful

October 25, 2016 benign0 8 Comments

There’s a rare level of dimwittedness involved in coming up with — and actually implementing — the idea of petitioning the shutdown of Mocha Uson’s Facebook page. The backfire and fallout from this quaint project all but proved just how fragmented the Opposition is today. Even die-hard characters in the Yellow Camp refused to sign…

Civics, Culture, Media, Society

Batman Vs. Superman: Pros Vs. Cons

May 22, 2016 Grimwald 8 Comments

While everyone is talking about Captain America: Civil War, I’d like to take the time to discuss DC Comics’ latest attempt at matching Marvel Comics’ Cinematic Universe. Batman Vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice promises audiences something similar to the Avengers series with various superheroes, each with their own respective franchise, duking it out on the big screen. Batman…

Film Review, Glitz and Glamour, Media

About Heroes, Superheroes and the Filipino View of them

December 19, 2015December 19, 2015 ChinoF 16 Comments

Superheroes are all the rage now, and with so many movies coming out from comic book companies, it might be relevant to take a look back and see, where did superheroes originate? We would say Batman, Superman and Captain America would have taken some elements from ancient and medieval heroes, like Hercules, Gilgamesh and King…

Glitz and Glamour

How Christopher Nolan’s #Interstellar unified all time travel movies for me

November 18, 2014July 17, 2015 Kate Natividad 4 Comments

I finally got around to seeing Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar. It’s alright, I guess. I liked the way they turned these complex relativity principles into visual eye candy, specially that part about how time (the fourth dimension in spacetime) was turned into a kind of a physical coordinate that Cooper (played by Matthew McConaughey) could navigate…

Film Review, Science, Tech Talk

The Philippines needs some kryptonite to battle China over the Spratly Islands

April 1, 2014April 1, 2014 Ilda 26 Comments

Lex Luthor: Miss Teschmacher, when I was six years old my father said to me… Miss Teschmacher: “Get out.” Lex Luthor: Ha ha. Before that. He said, “Son, stocks may rise and fall, utilities and transportation systems may collapse. People are no damn good, but they will always need land and they’ll pay through the…

Government, Politics, Uncategorized

McHeroes: Filipinos need to cure their addiction to disaster heroism

November 22, 2013 benign0 24 Comments

As what usually happens following another disaster, another tragedy, another “accident”, or another crisis, “heroism” is, yet again, the word of the month. Heroes are currently at work delivering relief, comforting the victims, counseling the hapless, and inspiring the desperate. We are told these “heroes” are also facing the “great battles ahead”. Presumably those “battles”…

Civics, Culture, Government, Religion, Society

How Filipinos can relate their own lives to the Superman universe

June 18, 2013June 18, 2013 FallenAngel 2 Comments

Reboots, it seems, are some of the in things these days when it comes to what Hollywood has on its plate. It has been done with Spiderman, Batman, and now Superman. The latest picture, Man of Steel, has just recently come out and is now showing in Philippine cinemas. A lot of us are familiar…

Culture, Lifestyle, Media

The Dark Knight Rises and faking it on Facebook

July 24, 2012July 24, 2012 Kate Natividad 5 Comments

I realized something after seeing The Dark Knight Rises last night. The good guys in most American movies fit the profile of the quiet brooding type while bad guys are characteristically loudmouthed jackasses. Batman, not to mention his alter-ego Bruce Wayne, is the man of the month, of course: dark, reclusive, a man of few…

Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle