After the 2026 Winter Olympics, you may have seen a strikingly unique-looking figure skater- beaming face, smiley piercing, and most importantly, halo rings.Right after Alysa Liu’s Olympic victory she has been winning the internet, and her non-traditional route to success was teeming with various life lessons, we just have to talk about it.Alysa Liu just
It’s a Filipino action series, of course it’s also a soap opera.It starts with a love triangle.A love triangle with a toxic male and problematic women in desperate circumstances, that inevitably sets off a hostage situation and disproportionate carnage.If we’re being really accurate, there’s more than one love triangle – more of like a love
“People We Meet On Vacation” is a surprisingly watchable mix of the opposites attract/best friends/summer romance tropes.Another Valentine’s Day, another rom-com up for review, a genre for which Ihave learned to liberally temper my expectations because I know we are long past the golden age of the rom-com.Image: IMDB/People We Meet On VacationThe film, streaming
[SPOILERS AHEAD]‘90s kids probably had the same thrill I had being able to watch “Clueless”’ star Alicia Silverstone after a long hiatus, in a holiday romcom… supported by no less than Melissa Joan Hart, another ‘90s icon.Image: IMDB/A Merry Little Ex-MasKate (Sliverstone) and Everett (Oliver Hudson) are a married couple going through a divorce during
[MILD SPOILERS AHEAD…]As in the spirit of the season, Netflix’s “Champagne Problems” is a holiday romance where a driven corporate woman (again) on a mission to advance her career by “saving” a struggling family business (again) from a French widower with a dreamy son (again… only the nationality is different). Image: IMDB/Champagne ProblemsSydney Price (Minka Kelly)
Korean drama “Good Boy” has everything in it: a cop show with endearing characters, a workplace romance, quirky comedy, and some heavy drama…. Think “Brooklyn 99” but more dramatic.Endearing characters in a fun and action-packed storyline remind us that the buddy coptrope is far from done.Another thing that is not yet done, is corruption.Globally, so
In recent years, society has glorified the grind through hustle culture, pressuring us into lifestyles that are not sustainable in the long run. However, if we want to experience joy in our daily working lives, as well as reasonable career longevity, we must learn to practice grindfulness.What is grindfulness?Grindfulness is “being present and mindful enough
Have you made a bad situation worse out of desperation?We all probably have. In Tyler Perry’s “Straw,”Taraji P. Henson is masterful as Janiyah, an exhausted single mother to an ailing child. And we are taken through the single worst day of her life.Image: Netflix/StrawThe expression “the last straw,” is a shortened version of “the last
Don’t you wish there was a simple recipe we can follow for moving on?Whether it’s from a loss of a job, health, or loved one. Grief can come in different ways.The reason “The Nonnas” feels like a cookbook is because a cookbook’s pages are made of independent, unique recipes. While the film begins with the
This. Nothing like a visual of a hapless, bedraggled election worker, Emmy (Marian Rivera)to encapsulate the Filipino electorate. Nothing like a well-made indie movie to hold up a mirror to emphasize the sorry state of politics in the Philippines. But then again, we already knew that.Corrupt politicians playing the victim, getting rich off taxpayers’ hard-earned money,
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