The Wheel and Axle

Now here’s a Wonder Woman movie I would not mind watching, too.

Lynda Carter and Gal Gadot just absolutely nail the character. I wish Lynda would appear in the DCEU at some point. Come on, Warner and DC! You know that would be gold.

Because Neil Gaiman is a legend.

As expected, Disney’s live action remake of their animated classic Beauty and the Beast is as magical as the original. Although the new film is quite faithful to the first one, it still does have a few changes, primarily in order to flesh out the backstories and motivations of the characters. Some new songs were added along the way to enhance the story beats and the character arcs. All these resulted in a richer, deeper, and in many ways slightly darker approach to a classic tale that’s, well, as old as time.

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For good and for bad, we’re not just about the beaches.

Yesterday, I joined a panel of bloggers and social media personalities in a Facebook Live broadcast of Senator Risa Hontiveros. Facilitated by Peruvian-Asian gay celebrity Sebastian Castro and supported by Atty. Jazzy Tamayo of Rainbow Rights, the “Bekitaktakan” was centered around the Anti-Discrimination Bill (ADB), a piece of legislation that would provide protection for a very vulnerable segment of Philippine society: the LGBT community.

The ADB has been languishing in legislation limbo for almost two decades – or at least, the ADB in various forms. The current version is the one that has made it the farthest so far, with a couple of interpellations left after congress went on recess earlier this week. (I shan’t comment further as to the reasons why it got delayed again lest I start throwing large, electrically-live appliances around the room in frustration.)

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Can you feel the excitement? I can. It’s positively electric.

An oldie that never gets old and is still a goodie.

This was nothing short of genius.

Remember him from the 2014 Asia Games? As George Takei would say: Oh, myyy.

Albert Einstein was, and still is, the poster boy for intelligence. In fact, his name has been used in daily language almost as a synonym for “genius.”

His scientific achievements have been plentiful, and to enumerate them all would take an article significantly longer than this one.

But of course, perhaps his most famous one would be the Theory of Relativity along with that famous mass-energy equivalence equation (E=mc²). His work was critical in our understanding of the time-space frame and all that this entailed.

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Kong: Skull Island on the surface offers nothing significantly new besides the tropes already associated with the franchise: man versus nature, man as the actual antagonist, man getting involved in something he should not be involved in, misunderstood and ultimately sympathetic giant ape, woman develops emotional connection with ape.

But it does have a very delightful and engaging advantage.

Tom Hiddleston’s biceps.

Well, okay, that’s one.

And Brie Larson’s photojournalist is a woman who finally dresses sensibly for the expedition she’s joining. No high heels while running from prehistoric creatures, that’s for sure.

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