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THE KING of Pop gets the biopic treatment that modern celebrity culture always seems to reserve for its most contested icons: expensive, glossy, and terrified of saying anything real. Michael (2026), directed by Antoine Fuqua and produced with the blessing of the Jackson estate, arrives as both a tribute and an image-management exercise. The film […]
By MJ Villamor
May 26, 2026
By MJ Villamor • May 26, 2026
CAMPUS FASHION has a way of keeping its own calendar. Even without announcements or reminders, clothing begins to register certain moments before they are named. As the Ateneo community celebrates Chinese New Year, fashion becomes one of the subtler ways that the student body participates in the occasion. Within the peripheral vision of celebration and […]
By Mikylla Almirol, Aldea Hao and MJ Villamor
February 20, 2026
By Mikylla Almirol, Aldea Hao and MJ Villamor • February 20, 2026
MYTH, MONSTERS, and love are Guillermo del Toro’s bread and butter. He loves grotesque beings so wholeheartedly that he can’t help sanding down their sharpest edges, polishing their wounds until they gleam with reflected humanity. In Frankenstein (2025), his long-gestating adaptation of Mary Shelley’s original text, that generosity becomes both the film’s animating force and […]
By MJ Villamor
January 19, 2026
By MJ Villamor • January 19, 2026
EVERY NOVEMBER, hums of a projector fill Quezon City as an annual event lights up the movie screens. Keeping this tradition alive, QCinema returns this November 14 to 23 for its 13th year, showcasing over 80 films spanning a range of continents and genres. From screenings at your nearest Quezon City cinemas to affordable tickets […]
By Mika Layda, Mikylla Almirol and MJ Villamor
November 22, 2025
By Mika Layda, Mikylla Almirol and MJ Villamor • November 22, 2025