From the director of Blue Valentine comes a drama that is sure to move and amaze people who are old enough to understand it, The Place Beyond the Pines. Set in Schenectady, New York, this crime drama features great direction in Derek Cianfrance, touching screenplay, unique cinematography and a star-studded cast in Ryan Gosling, Bradley…
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Rant and Rave: ‘Despicable Me 2’
After he inadvertently made a family in his attempt at an ‘out of this world’ robbery, Gru (Steve Carrell) has left villainy behind to care for his three lovely daughters and make a living as a seller of funny-tasting jelly instead. Meanwhile, everyone thinks it’s about time the new father meets a lady friend. One…
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Green Archers to face undefeated Tamaraws
Coming off a huge win against Ateneo last Sunday, the DLSU Green Archers look to ride on their momentum as they try to extend their winning streak while handing the FEU Tamaraws their first loss of the season. The last time these two squads met was in last year’s knockout game for the fourth and…
During the last enrollment of classes for the first term of Academic Year 2013-2014, the transition to animo.sys from the previous enrollment service provider My.LaSalle was met with several technological problems that delayed the entire process of enrollment. In line with this, in order to address the issues and concerns of the students regarding the…
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Rant and Rave: 4 Sisters and a Wedding
Once in a while, an unlikely gem of a Filipino movie comes along, and this is arguably one of them. Its trailer is not at all enticing, appealing and inviting to viewers. It seemed very mundane and typical of a Filipino movie, with the same melodramatic plot…
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Rant and Rave: ‘Smash’
TV Series Rare is the show whose pilot episode was deeply applauded and appreciated by critics the world over, calling it “smart and slick”, “pretty damn perfect” and “excellent”. However, it isn’t rare to see a show lose its quality and appeal within a year or two; in Smash’s case, people started to dislike the…
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Head to Head: Rain, friend or foe?
It starts off slowly: the soft growl of thunder, the beat of a raindrop or two, and without warning, everything is suddenly striped by falling rain – the long strokes painting the landscape with the sort of still rawness only capable by nature. The warm blues and greens and browns of nature melt away and…
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25 Cents’ Worth: Fragile
The night breeze softly sends its unnerving caress. Nagging whispers aggravate the storm of my hazy consciousness. As I look down at the pavement, the scorned shadows etched on the ground were staring back, silently nodding heads in approval. Tonight, the ghosts of those who have gone clam up to this soul losing direction. Recalling…
The famous British playwright William Shakespeare once said that the eyes are the window to the soul; one may think that he simply used the quote as a figure of speech, but scientists from Sweden’s Orebro University have backed up the claim, proving that Shakespeare’s statement was not just one born from an imaginative mind.…
Last June 13, sudden heavy torrential rain caused flooding both inside and outside the campus, and prompted the University to call off classes for the first time this academic year. The event, brought about by less than 90 minutes of rain in the area heightened concerns over the possible disaster that an actual storm might…