HIV/AIDS and delusions of morality

Rina Jimenez-David 12/02/2016

I can still remember the days when the media, including the entertainment media, were all over the place talking about HIV/AIDS. Movies were being made about the pandemic, based on the lives of people (remember Dolzura Cortez?)…

Welcome to indies at MMFF

Rina Jimenez-David 11/29/2016

Met up, quite by accident, with noted director/documentarist Tikoy Aguiluz this Sunday and we got to talking about the controversy surrounding the choice of eight movies for the Metro Manila Film Festival. The lineup of entries is…

Two sides of Marcos burial issue

Rina Jimenez-David 11/08/2016

The Supreme Court issues today its ruling on the question of whether the remains of former president and dictator Ferdinand Marcos deserves burial in the Libingan ng mga Bayani, the resting place of heroes. There are those…

Better lukewarm than absent

Rina Jimenez-David 10/21/2016

For a while there, it looked like activists and political protesters were happy playing footsies with the police and military. Where normally activists, many of them from the Left, would be the first to raise a howl…

Letter from a reader

Rina Jimenez-David 10/07/2016

Sometimes, not often, you get a reaction from a reader that makes you feel your words make a difference. Or at least make sense. Not everyone, not every reader, will agree with you. And many times, it’s…

‘To help banish or manage all disease’

Rina Jimenez-David 09/23/2016

In the movie “The Social Network,” which tells of the beginnings of what would be Facebook and the legal tussle over its ownership and management, FB founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, played by Jesse Eisenberg, is…

Be a hero (but sans cape)

Rina Jimenez-David 09/09/2016

One of my favorite parts of the movie “The Incredibles” (Pixar/Walt Disney 2004) features costume designer Edna Mode (roughly modeled, it is said, on Hollywood’s Edith Head) explaining to Mr. Incredible why she refuses to design a…

Banking on the base

Rina Jimenez-David 08/26/2016

With his relentless pursuit of the “war against drugs,” President Rodrigo Duterte has been giving the impression that it is what his administration is all about. At a recent press conference, he even pooh-poohed the concerns raised…

Uncertainty and change

Rina Jimenez-David 08/12/2016

“Navigating through Uncertainties” was the theme chosen for the day-long panel discussion for the benefit of the international media invited to observe the Nestlé and Salzburg Festival Young Conductors Award last week. But, said the panel moderator,…

Giving the drug war a ‘face’

Rina Jimenez-David 08/02/2016

Perhaps what so turned off PDu30 about the front-page Inquirer photo of the body of Michael Siaron cradled in the arms of his weeping widow Jennilyn Olayres, which he dismissed as “drama” during his State of the…

Sisterhood for VP Leni

Rina Jimenez-David 07/29/2016

“The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” is a novel for the juvenile market that tells of three friends who go to separate destinations for summer vacation and keep in touch by sending each other, by turns, a…

A premature surrender?

Rina Jimenez-David 07/15/2016

Does anyone have a jet ski to spare? Remember the campaign boast of President Rody that the way to solve the Spratlys dispute with China was for him to take a jet ski to the nearest shoreline…

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