District 9: A compelling film, must-see sci-fi

By Nickie Wang/MST
Think of slum that is home to two million inhabitants. Do you picture chaos? Let’s try it again, but this time let’s make it complicated with a touch of fiction: the inhabitants are aliens that live in a place where they can have actual contact with humans. Aside from territorial and communication problem, [...]

Asia’s Titanic premieres on National Geographic

By Nickie Wang
Asia’s Titanic is not an Asian version of the 1997 movie about the sad tale of star-crossed lovers portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. It’s not even a love story. It’s a full-length documentary that narrates a mishap far more disastrous than the ill-fated maiden voyage of the ship that sank after [...]

People 8.29.09

…are talking about
Aga Muhlach
About eighty people, close friends and relatives of Aga and wife Charlene, were flown to Pili in Camarines Sur (Governor LRay Villafuerte loves to call his province just CamSur) and back to Manila for a four-day action-packed vacation. Aga celebrated his 40th birthday and there’s no other way to make the people [...]

Discovery gives shows local flavor

 
 By Nickie Wang/ Manila Standard Today

Because of the audiences’ programming taste and high interest in popular science, Discovery Channel considers the Philippines, apart from Singapore and Malaysia, as a very important market in Southeast Asia.
Discovery Network’s Asia-Pacific senior vice president and general manager Kevin Dickie visited the country to personally announce the launch of a [...]

Project Runway Philippines returns on ETC

By Nickie Wang/ Manila Standard Today

What is the measure of a great fashion designer?
Solar Entertainment chief operating officer Peter Chanliong can’t answer this question but he assures that ETC Entertainment Central viewers will find out the answer if they tune in every Wednesda y night.
“Let’s just leave this question to the fashion experts,” Chanliong piped [...]

What women should know about cervical cancer

 
 By Nickie Wang/ Manila Standard Today

Cervical cancer is curable if diagnosed and promptly treated in its early stage. This is the message that model and former actress Tweetie de Leon-Gonzales would like to tell all women, young and old alike.
“It’s really an investment on your health because in the end it is much cheaper to [...]

CINEMALAYA 2010 now accepting entries

Entries to the full length feature category of the 2010 Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival and Competition are now being accepted.  The deadline for submission is on September 1, 2009.
Only entries by Filipino filmmakers who have not yet directed more than three full length commercial feature films will be accepted to the full length feature category.
For [...]