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Movie adaptations of books are always as tricky thing. Sometimes, they work, as in the case of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings, and sometimes, they don’t (how many times has Dune been remade?). I’m a big fan of speculative fiction, and there’s a lot of genre movies based on literature that’s going to be released this year. Here’s a brief roundup of some of them:
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Warning: Heavy profanity.
Readers of the American comedy website Cracked.com would be familiar with the columnist John Cheese (real name Mack Leighty).
In a website filled with raucuous jokes and references to male genitalia, Cheese brings a darker touch to his articles (while still bringing the raucuous...
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Continued from Part 1
His activism
BLKD is an activist, inside and outside of the rap battle grounds. Aside from being a social work and community development major in UP Diliman , he is also currently the secretary-general of activist artist group Sinagbayan .
How does he feel when his activism is being por...
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When Allen Enriquez , more popularly known as the rapper BLKD , braved the battle auditions for FlipTop last year, he had but the P150 registration fee in his wallet.
“ Sinugal ko na. Lalakarin na lang namin mula Freedom Bar hanggang UP (University of the Philippines) kapag natalo .” He did not win. Fortunat...
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Reading is one of my oldest pastimes. Sure, I played outside with the other kids, but when we moved into an apartment with no kids, I retreated (or, if you like, ascended) to the paper page.Today, however, most of my reading is done on the digital page.
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