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QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News Service, June 25) – To this day, I don’t sit with my back to door. I learned that from Dune. Sci-fi writer Frank Herbert created a wonderful universe unique from other sci-fi writers in that it is devoid of inhuman aliens. Humanity have successfully colonized a million worlds. Due to a previous historical event wherein thinking machines dominated mankind, the use of computers was forbidden. To make up for the […]
JUNE 24 (Reuters) — It’s won awards even before its release and now ‘Batman: Arkham Knight’ – the much-anticipated conclusion to the ‘Batman: Arkham’ game trilogy – is on sale. The release was celebrated by its distributor Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment with an exhibition of Batman outfits designed by numerous celebrities and street artists, including director Noel Clarke, model Jodie Kidd and artists Zeus, Hayden Kays and Nancy Fouts. They also offered press the opportunity […]
JUNE 24 (Reuters) — Tom Holland has been selected to play Spider-Man in the next incarnation of the super hero franchise. The 19-year old actor, who played opposite Naomi Watts in “The Impossible,” is expected to appear in “Captain America: Civil War” before his first standalone film hits theaters in July 2017. Holland will follow in the web-slinging footsteps of Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire, both of whom played the character on the big screen.
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News Service, June 24) – Imagine a civilization without scarcity, without inequality, without want or need. Where people can do everything they want without fear or limits, a place where there is no crime. Such civilization is the focus of Scottish sci-fi writer Iain M. Banks’ “Culture” series. The eponymous Culture is a meta-civilization, at first composed of eight humanoid species but have managed to assimilate many others. The Culture was […]
JUNE 23 (Reuters) — Hollywood composer James Horner, who scored the Oscar-winning film “Titanic” and its mega-hit theme song “My Heart Will Go On”, has not been heard from since his private airplane crashed in Southern California on Monday (June 22) morning, his lawyer said. Jay Cooper, a prominent music industry attorney, confirmed the plane that crashed in the Los Padres National Forest, north of Los Angeles, belonged to his client Horner, 61-years-old, but could […]
JUNE 23 (Reuters) — In a year in which Taylor Swift’s star has risen in to the upper stratosphere, her biggest victory may have been watching Apple ‘blink” after the pop star called out the tech giant for its initial policy of refusing to pay artists during free trials of its new Apple Music streaming service. Apple’s change of heart came after the 25-year-old singer posted on Tumblr that she’d hold back her latest hit […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News Service, June 23) – When it comes to reading, my tastes run to science fiction and fantasy. I have been following a lot of authors but lately, I have been reading the “Uplift” series by David Brin. In the Uplift universe, the dominant civilization is called the Five Galaxies – a conglomerate of oxygen-breathing species. At the center of the civilization is the practice of “uplift” – wherein a patron […]
Dozens of people climbed aboard a giant surfboard and rode it ashore Saturday (June 20) in California to set a new record for Most People Riding a Surfboard at Once. Sixty-six people managed to stay aboard the 42-foot (12.8 meters) long surfboard and ride it for more than the required ten seconds to qualify for a new Guinness World Record, NBC reported. The attempt took place at Huntington Beach, just south of Los Angeles.
JUNE 22 (Reuters) — Actor and former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger was greeted by hundreds of fans chanting his name as he arrived at the red carpet in Berlin on Sunday (June 21) for the European premiere of ‘Terminator Genisys’, the latest installment of the franchise. Like the 1984 original, John Connor (played by Jason Clarke) sends Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) back in time to stop the assassination by a terminator of his mother, […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News Service, June 22) – After a long wait, “Jurassic World” continues the adventure started years ago by renowned filmmaker Steven Spielberg. The film is set on a theme park whose main attraction – genetically-reconstructed dinosaurs, draws a crowd of 20, 000 daily. Then, we have a genetically-engineered dinosaur designed to draw more of the crowd by making it bigger and with more teeth. What do you think will happen? Watching […]
JUNE 22 (Reuters) — Pop star Taylor Swift will not be making her hit album “1989” available on Apple Inc’s upcoming streaming service, the singer’s label said on Friday (June 19). Apple Music, which will launch at the end of June, will offer subscribers a large catalog of songs for a subscription fee of $10 a month, but Swift’s “1989,” her fifth studio album; will not be offered on any streaming service, her label Big […]
JUNE 19 (Reuters) — Arnold Schwarzenegger startled a few fans at Madame Tussauds Hollywood when the actor and former California governor dressed as his character from “The Terminator” series and pretended to be a wax statue. Schwarzenegger startled a number of visitors to the wax museum. The prank was produced by fundraising platform Omaze, designed to raise awareness for Schwarzenegger’s charity, After-School All-Stars, which aims to provide after-school programs for low-income and at-risk youth. In […]
