DENMARK’S Queen Margrethe II, Europe’s longest-serving monarch, will abdicate on Jan. 14 after 52 years on the throne and will be succeeded by her...

CHINESE lawmakers on Friday weighed in on a fiery online debate on whether fireworks should be used to ring in the Lunar New Year...

AN OPEN letter penned by dozens of actresses and other artists in defense of Gerard Depardieu, the cinema giant accused of sexual harassment, has...

ZIG DULAY’s fantasy film Firefly, about a young boy’s search for the mythical island of fireflies, was one of the night’s two big winners...

I’VE NEVER been a Vilmanian (Sharon Cuneta is my own showbiz sacred cow), but then, I’ve never seen Vilma on the big screen. Any experiences I have had of Philippine cinema’s “Star for All Seasons” were limited to late-night movies of hers shown on TV. If the lines outside the movie theater for When I Met You in Tokyo were any indication, Vilma Santos-Recto truly has a different pull.

THERE is no doubt that Jun Robles Lana is a master of camp and comedy. His latest film Becky and Badette, which follows the antics of best friends Becky Naman (played by Eugene Domingo) and Badette Imaculada (Pokwang), is hilarious.

AS AN HOMAGE to all mothers, Family of Two depicts a love between a clingy mother and her equally clingy son.

RICARDO “RICKY” G. ABAD, a theater director, actor, teacher, and sociologist, died on Tuesday, Dec. 26. He was 77. Areté, the creative hub of the...

SURELY it’s good luck to greet the New Year with a full stomach. We’ve got options around the city which will bust your bellies...

SANTIAGO — Walt Disney production company Lucasfilm is suing a themed carwash on the outskirts of Chilean capital Santiago for plagiarizing its multibillion-dollar galactic...

AMERICAN comic Tom Smothers, one-half of the musical-comedy duo the Smothers Brothers, died on Tuesday at 86 at home in California after being diagnosed...

GRAMMY-WINNING Colombian singer Shakira, one of the world’s top-selling musicians, has been immortalized in her famous belly-dancing pose in a giant bronze statue in...