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*National Theater Live: Coriolanus (Josie Rouke, UK, 2014) PHOTO: Johan Persson  SYNOPSIS: When an old adversary threatens Rome, the city calls once more on her hero and defender: Coriolanus. But famine threatens the city, the citizens hunger swells to an appetite for change, and on returning from the field Coriolanus must confront the march of realpolitik and the voice of an angry people. (SOURCE: IMDB ) STARS: Tom Hiddleston , Mark Gatiss , Hadley Fraser RATING: 4.5/5 Wish I Was Here ( Zach Braff, USA, 2014)     SYNOPSIS: Aidan Bloom is a 35-year-old man who finds himself at major crossroads, which forces him to examine his life, his career, and his family. (SOURCE: IMDB ) STARS: Zach Braff , Joey King , Kate Hudson, Josh Gad RATING: 4/5 Tick Tock (Ien Chi, USA, 2011) SYNOPSIS: What would you do if you had only five minutes to live? Trace a young man's few minutes of trying to fulfill his life's highest potential.

Hannibal (Season 2) CREATOR: Bryan Fuller PRODUCTION CO.: Dino De Laurentiis Company, Living Dead Guy Productions, AXN: Original X Production, Gaumont International Television STARS: Hugh Dancy , Mads Mikkelsen , Caroline Dhavernas , Laurence Fishburne SYNOPSIS: While Will continues to assert his innocence, Hannibal and Jack try to come to terms with the fact that he's in jail; Kade Purnell visits Will. (SOURCE: IMDB ) RATING : 4.5/5 Fargo (Season 1) PRODUCTION CO.: MGM Television, FX Productions STARS: Billy Bob Thornton , Martin Freeman , Allison Tolman SYNOPSIS: A drifter named Lorne Malvo arrives in small-town Minnesota and influences the population with his malice and violence, including put-upon insurance salesman Lester Nygaard. (SOURCE: IMDB ) RATING : 5/5 Fortysomething (Episode 1-6) PRODUCTION CO.: Carlton Television STARS: Hugh Laurie , Anna Chancellor , Sheila Hancock , Benedict Cumberbatch, Peter Capaldi SYNOPSIS: Paul Slippe

The Double (Richard Ayoade, 2013, UK) SYNOPSIS: The story is about a man named Simon who works as a clerk in a government agency. His life changes when he meets his new co-worker, James. It was based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novella about doppleganger. STARRING: Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska RATING: 4/5 Dagitab (Sparks) (Giancarlo Abrahan V, 2014, Philippines) SYNOPSIS: While the marriage of two professors is on the verge of falling apart, the woman is dragged into a scandal involving a young student. On the other hand, the man falls in love with his research -- a deity (supernatural being) that appears to him as the ghost of an old flame. (SOURCE: Cinemalaya ) STARRING: Eula Valdez, Noni Buencamino, Martin del Rosario RATING: 4/5  The World's End (Edgar Wright, 2013, UK) SYNOPSIS: Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival. (SOURCE: IMDB ) STAR

PHOTO: Spoken Word Tula-tulaan A very late post... but it's better late than never, right? Anyway, Marife invited me to this event. It was nice when someone asked you to come even though I only met her once at St. Scholastica. I agree to attend because I realized that it was two years since the last poetry reading event that I attended. It was 5:30 PM when I went to Cubao Expo (aka Cubao X). I went early because I waited for my friend, Jessica. Unfortunately, she didn't come because of her new job. So, I was on my own for more than two hours. Before the event starts, I looked around and saw some of the books from Hemingway Bookshop. I was not supposed to buy anything, but I got tempted. I bought two books: one is Sigmund Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle, and the other is The New Feminist. I remember when I bought these books, the woman in her early twenties said "Ah, Sigmund Freud... You can control your man with that book" and "Sigmund Freud is