San Miguel Pure Foods Home Foodie Premieres On August 10

Anyone with a zest of discovering new flavors can be considered a foodie nowadays.

San Miguel Pure Foods believes that aside from dining out, foodies should come home and harness their passion for food by cooking in their own kitchens and creating their own food experience.

Home Foodie is all about inspiring home cooks to reinvent favoriets and recreate dishes from food discoveries using San Miguel Pure Food products.

Thus, Home Foodie dishes are “masarap, masustansya, at kayang-kaya.”

Even the home foodie newbies can do the recipes.

First National Science Quiz Competition of Exploreum offers P 4M in Prizes

SM’s science museum, the Exploreum at SM Mall of Asia, will hold its first national science quiz competition, giving away as much as PHP 4 MILLION in prizes on September 2015 until February 2016.

Endorsed by the Department of Education, the Exploreum has partnered with the Department of Science and Technology to produce the first national science quiz competition: an inter-school tournament, open to public and private schools, with a total of PHP 4 MILLION in prizes for the winning schools.

The Exploreum will be accepting as many as 140 schools for the grade school and high school categories. Competing schools will already begin to win prizes in weekly, monthly, and quarterly preliminary rounds, while the winning schools and its student representatives will take home the winning pot of Php 1 MILLION each for the grade school and high school divisions during the grand finale.

Windows 10 Available in 190 Countries as a Free Upgrade

Windows is nowcavailable in 190 countries around the world including the Philippines as a free upgrade for eligible Windows 7 & 8.1 devices or with new PCs and tablets. The most secure Windows ever, Windows 10 is delivered as a service and kept automatically up-to-date with innovations and security updates. Windows 10 offers one experience that will become available on the broadest range of devices with more than 2,000 devices or configurations already in testing. The new Windows Store and Windows Software Development Kit also become available Wednesday, opening the door to new and innovative app experiences on Windows 10.

Guarte, Agura top 39th MILO Marathon Calapan race

SEA Games silver medalist and Philippine National Team member Mervin Guarte and MILO APEX Running Clinic coach Janette Agura clinched the first place honors in the 21K male and female divisions at the 39th National MILO Marathon Calapan qualifying leg on Sunday. Calapan is one of the new locations of the MILO Marathon this year. Over 5,000 runners of all ages graced the event and helped establish the record of the biggest fun run in Oriental Mindoro, to date.

Henry Cavill, Suave American Super Spy in "Man from U.N.C.L.E."‏

Before he reprises his Superman role in the much-anticipated “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” scheduled for release in March 2016, Henry Cavill will first tackle the role of CIA super spy Napoleon Solo in Warner Bros.' slick action-thriller “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.”

Cavill and Armie Hammer (“The Social Network”) team up in the film as, respectively, CIA operative Napoleon Solo and KGB agent Illya Kuryakin—two fierce rivals from opposing sides of the Iron Curtain who are ordered to put aside their differences and work together to subvert a global catastrophe at the height of the Cold War.

Your Big Chance to Prove you’re Tough Enough

KIX and Daniel Matsunaga want to know: R U Tough Enough? If you think you are, then time is running out on your best chance to prove it. KIX is currently recruiting tough Filipinos to participate in a one of a kind competition to find the toughest Filipino of all in “KIX R U Tough Enough?”.

The Contest is open to all legal residents of the Philippines, males and females aged 18 years old and above who exude toughness – physically strength, mental endurance and emotional resilience. To join the contest, entrants must first apply online at www.kix-tv.com/tough. Those interested have until August 07, 2015 to apply. Shortlisted participants will be invited for a closed-door audition on August 16 which will determine 10 finalists who will compete in a final showdown at SM Megamall on September 5, 2015.

Main Trailer of "The Intern" Now Online‏

The main trailer for Warner Bros. Pictures’ “The Intern” starring Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway, has just been released and may be viewed here at https://youtu.be/rOnGHBpVcxI.

The film is written and directed by Nancy Meyers (“It’s Complicated,” “Something’s Gotta Give”).

In “The Intern,” De Niro stars as Ben Whittaker, a 70-year-old widower who has discovered that retirement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin (Hathaway).

The film’s multi-generational cast also features Rene Russo, Anders Holm, Andrew Rannells, Adam Devine, Celia Weston, Nat Wolff, Linda Lavin, Zack Pearlman, newcomer Jason Orley, and Christina Scherer.

Meyers also produced the film, with Suzanne Farwell. Celia Costas served as executive producer.

Opening across the Philippines on September 24, “The Intern” will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.

"Inside Out" Filmmakers Fly to Manila, Attend Gala Premiere Aug 7‏

The creative geniuses behind Disney-Pixar's latest acclaimed blockbuster “Inside Out” – director Pete Docter and co-director Ronnie del Carmen – will be in Southeast Asia from August 2-10 as part of a three-city tour just before the movie opens in these markets. The tour which starts from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia will head to Jakarta, Indonesia and end in Manila, Philippines. Both filmmakers are scheduled to meet with numerous Disney-Pixar fans and the local creative communities at various on-ground events.

In the Philippines, Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen will attend the by-invite-only red carpet premiere on Friday night, August 7 at the IMAX SM Aura in Taguig. And on Monday, August 10, Ronnie del Carmen will give an inspirational lecture before local animators and animation students in an event organized by the Animation Council of the Philippines. Venue is also the IMAX SM Aura.

A New Vision Of Thriller In "REGRESSION"

Academy Award® nominee  Ethan Hawke (“Boyhood,” “Training Day”) and Emma Watson  (“Harry Potter” saga) star in “Regression,” the return of Academy Award Winner® Alejandro Amenábar (“The Sea Inside”) to genre, where he previously had great success with “The Others,” which grossed over $200 million worldwide. The film, based on Amenábar´s original screenplay is produced by Fernando Bovaira with whom he has also worked with in “The Others”.

“Regression” brings us to Minnesota, 1990. Detective Bruce Kenner (Hawke) investigates the case of young Angela (Watson), who accuses her father, John Gray (David Dencik), of an unspeakable crime. When John unexpectedly and without recollection admits guilt, renowned psychologist Dr. Raines (David Thewlis) is brought in to help him relive his memories and what they discover unmasks a horrifying nationwide mystery.

Book And Borders Cafe Opens Doors To Coffee and Book Lovers!

Reading a good book is probably one of the best way to relax. Pairing it with our choice of hot or cold beverage makes it more special. Well there is good news! Books and Borders Cafe is now open in 281 Tomas Morato to provide that experience of a cafe and also read their large collection of books!

They have a number of book with a wide variety of genre. From the popular love, teen, fiction novels to classics, comics, and children books are there for customers to indulge. Its location is perfect for the coffee loving patrons within this area which is filled with restaurants and coffee shops. 

It would not be complete without a menu of drinks and even desserts that will make the stay trully pleasurable. From the facade it already has this cozy feel of a library but with a more energetic feel with their colorful seats.