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A Sinister encounter
by CHANNEL SURFING By Althea Lauren Ricardo - November 8, 2012 - 12:00am
The moment November rolls in, I get ready for some serious spooking.
Britney's real comeback
by CHANNEL SURFING By Althea Lauren Ricardo - September 11, 2008 - 12:00am
Britney’s participation in this year’s VMAs was a wink to her disastrous performance last year.
Do you know The Secret?
by CHANNEL SURFING By Althea Lauren Ricardo - May 1, 2007 - 12:00am
There''s a film that''s been making the rounds and changing people''s lives. It stars big names, names like Jack Canfield, Bob Proctor, John Gray, and Neale Donald Walsch. And it''s not fiction. In fact, it''s declaring...
World Live Web
by CHANNEL SURFING By Althea Lauren Ricardo - April 24, 2007 - 12:00am
The web has really revolutionized information sharing, as any victim of whatever scandal can attest. Anyone can be an overnight celebrity-even celebrities. The Paris, Britney, and Lindsay triumvirate comes...
ApacmanSunday
by CHANNEL SURFING By Althea Lauren Ricardo - April 17, 2007 - 12:00am
It was another Pacman day last Sunday, the day Manny Pacquiao did the country proud yet again by way of an 8th round knockout over the previously undefeated Jorge Solis. I could tell as soon as I woke up a little...
Heroes in a Half-Shell, TURTLE POWER!
by CHANNEL SURFING By Althea Lauren Ricardo - April 10, 2007 - 12:00am
Happily, the fourth film-TMNT or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-though no longer live-action, and, being CGI, brings back the pow in Turtle Power. The movie opens with the Turtles's new, post-Shredder life....
A success story that doesn't quite take off
by CHANNEL SURFING By Althea Lauren Ricardo - March 13, 2007 - 12:00am
"There is no y in happiness," says Will Smith's character in The Pursuit of Happyness, "there is an i." Swap the word why for y, and make i a pronoun, and there's the theme of Smith's latest hit.
The power of friendship in Bridge To Terabithia
by CHANNEL SURFING By Althea Lauren Ricardo - March 6, 2007 - 12:00am
Bridge to Terabithia is a story of artists and their imagination, of how big brothers become big brothers, and how a person whose life has been touched turns into a person who wants to touch somebody else's li...
Love, obsession, and a dream come true
by CHANNEL SURFING By Althea Lauren Ricardo - February 27, 2007 - 12:00am
All of the above are only connected because I decided to put them all in this little weekly column space, which, for today, will just have to come in short rushes. I had initially planned on writing about two movies...
Just Another Woman in Love
by CHANNEL SURFING By Althea Lauren Ricardo - February 20, 2007 - 12:00am
When I hear the term "a different kind of love" being used by gays and lesbians, I always wonder if they realize they're short-changing themselves by branding their love "different" when the truth is, love...
Be the Leading Lady!
by CHANNEL SURFING By Althea Lauren Ricardo - February 13, 2007 - 12:00am
The Holiday is no Love, Actually and it's not as delightful as Something's Gotta Give, but it has its moments that will cause you to overlook the clichés (and the fact that heartbreak...
When adults play
by CHANNEL SURFING By Althea Lauren Ricardo - February 6, 2007 - 12:00am
Little Children opens seemingly as a movie on the threat of pedophilia-but ends as a film on something less sensational, but increasingly more disturbing: the threat of morally-impaired parents setting examples...
A marriage doomed to fail
by CHANNEL SURFING By Althea Lauren Ricardo - January 23, 2007 - 12:00am
After catching the three horror-suspense entries, I wasn't up to anymore MMFF films, especially after all the post-festival ruckus, but then I read that Star Cinema's Kasal, Kasali, Kasalo did indeed surpass...
The Horror, the Horror
by CHANNEL SURFING By Althea Lauren Ricardo - January 9, 2007 - 12:00am
If the rumors are true that the 2006 Metro Manila Film Festival would be the last we'll ever have of this controversial award-giving circus, I can think of around ten immediate reasons why: the nine participating...
The Entertaining Year that was
by CHANNEL SURFING By Althea Lauren Ricardo - January 2, 2007 - 12:00am
Another channel-surfing year has closed, but before we rush into the new movie and television hits that will momentarily sweep us away from our dreary or turbulent lives, let's have one last glance at some of the...
Christmas, in their words
by CHANNEL SURFING By Althea Lauren Ricardo - December 19, 2006 - 12:00am
To jumpstart all the well-wishing, here are my favorite Christmas quotes from books, television shows, and movies. Some of them are wise, some of them are sassy, and some of them are really funny. Maybe we...
A Penguin That Has Come Alive
by CHANNEL SURFING By Althea Lauren Ricardo - December 5, 2006 - 12:00am
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." This quote, attributed to Howard Thurman,...
Two 'Dumb Girls' and Blond, James Bond
by CHANNEL SURFING By Althea Lauren Ricardo - November 28, 2006 - 12:00am
I didn't plan on writing about The Amazing Race Asia three times in a row in this space, but I didn't think the two Filipino teams would be eliminated one after the other either. Right on the barely cool...
Team Lopez out of the running
by CHANNEL SURFING By Althea Lauren Ricardo - November 21, 2006 - 12:00am
Coming from a strong second-place finish in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Team Lopez hit a couple of taxi-related snags in Jakarta, Indonesia, the site of the second leg of the race. At the Soekarno-Hatta International...
Team Lopez out of the running
by CHANNEL SURFING By Althea Lauren Ricardo - November 21, 2006 - 12:00am
Coming from a strong second-place finish in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Team Lopez hit a couple of taxi-related snags in Jakarta, Indonesia, the site of the second leg of the race. At the Soekarno-Hatta International...
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