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PHILIPPINE ASIAN NEWS TODAY November 16 - 30, 2018
Creed ll (PG) ***
Punch Up!
By Alan Samuel
Nostalgia finds its way into the ring with the feel-good
Creed ll. Taking a page out of the Rocky playbook much of
the team behind the first Creed runaway success returns
for more high-level drama. Brought to British Columbian
Cineplex screens by Warner Brothers films this inspiring
story will reel people in.
Forget about any rope the dope tricks here. Maligned
boxer Adonis Creed has more than his work cut out for
him. Michael B. Jordan displays lots of gusto as the
famed boxer seems to be at a crossroads in his young
life. Now involved with a loving woman the pair face many
challenges. When a name from the past decides to make
a challenge, it spells lots of confusion, consternation and
complete chaos.
Cinematic sports fans by now know the
story of Rocky. Acting legend Sylvester Stallone (Rambo)
again offers all that wise Yoda sage like advice to a young
man facing his own demons and the prospects of doing
battle with the son of one of The Italian Stallion’s most
memorable opponents. Talk about a demon seed.
Russian import Ivan Drago could spell fear in
any opponent’s eyes. That was
then and this is now as Adonis learns the hard way when
the demon seed of the Russian crusader decides to go after
the American champ. Fire runs deep in the ice-cold veins
of Viktor Drako. Menacing best describes the determined
fists of fury belonging to Florian Munteau.
Excellent choreographed fights in the ring put
you front and Centre with blow by blow exchanges sure to
leave you fatigued. Great words of Wisdom from the lips
of Sly Stallone and characters you care about give Creed
ll a winning decision. Hands down!
Jennylyn Mercado gets second
Star Cinema film with paired with
Richard Gutierrez and JM de Guzman
GMA-7 actress Jennylyn Mer-
cado will work again with ABS-CBN
via a Star Cinema film in 2019.
Titled Heart of Mine, this is
Jennylyn’s second movie with Star
Cinema. She previously did the
2016 film Just The 3 of Us, where
she was paired with John Lloyd
Cruz.
This time, Jennylyn will have
former Kapuso Richard Gutierrez
and Kapamilya actor JM de Guz-
man as her leading men.
ABS-CBN’s upcoming proj-
ects were revealed during the
#FamilyIsLove trade event of the
Kapamilya Network held yesterday,
November 27, at the Philippine In-
ternational Convention Center.
Even though Richard is a for-
mer Kapuso, this is his first time to
have Jennylyn as his leading lady.
Jennylyn and Richard previ-
ously worked with each other in
Let The Love Begin. In this 2005
movie, Richard was paired with
Angel Locsin. Back then, Jenny-
lyn was paired with perennial on-
screen partner Mark Herras.
Heart of Mine is the first mov-
ie featuring the tandem of Jenny-
lyn and JM.
Jennylyn was supposed to be
the partner of JM in the 2015 Metro
Manila Film Festival entry Walang
Forever. However, JM was replaced
by Jericho Rosales.
No other details were an-
nounced about the movie Heart of
Mine.
O T H E R
Test No. 1: ART & CULTURE
1. What’s the only piece of artwork that bears
the signature of the great artist Michelangelo?
a. David
b. Pieta
2. Louis Braille, creator of the Braille system
of writing for the blind, was himself blind.
a. True
b. False
3.
What country created the ‘eukonkanto,’ a fun contest where males
race through an obstacle track while carrying their wives – with the fastest
couple winning the equivalent of the wife’s weight in beer?
a.
Uganda
b.
Finland
c.
Brazil
d.
Tonga
4.
The women of the Padaung or Kayan Lahwl tribe of Myanmar are
renowned for wearing what on their seemingly elongated necks as a sign
of cultural identity and beauty?
Brass coils
a.
b.
Stone chokers
c.
Bone chains
d.
Elephant tusks
5.
What fictional dog was born on daisy Hill Puppy Farm?
a.
Mr. Peabody
b.
Pluto
c.
Courage
d.
Snoopy
6.
What’s the colorful nickname of the sultan Ahmed Mosque in
Istanbul, Turkey?
What absurdist play has only five characters seen on stage, a
7.
single set, and a little character who never shows up?
Aptly, what popular 20th-century author is buried in Tarzana,
8.
California?
Often performed at sports events, what ancestral war cry and
9.
dance has words that translate in to English as, “Here stands the Hairy
Man who can bring back the Sun so it will shine on us again! Rise now!
Rise now!”?
Whose painting of Dutch engraver Jaco De Gheryn III has been
10.
stolen a record 4 times?
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