Monday, February 23, 2015

The 87th Academy Awards

Before we go to the results, here are some of the most memorable moments from this year's Academy Awards Night.

TOP 15 FAVORITE MOMENTS:
1. The Magical and Inspiring Opening Number (plus Jack Black)
2. Eddie Redmayne's win and acceptance speech.
3. NPH's Birdman Impression
4. Tribute to the late greats (shed a tear for Robin Williams)
5. Common's Acceptance Speech
6. Adeel Dazeem and John Travolta
7. Graham Moore's Acceptance Speech
8. Emma Stone Winning a Lego trophy
9. Patricia Arquette's Acceptance Speech
10. Everything is Awesome
11. Lady Gaga being not so gaga
12-15. Every Grand Budapest Hotel win

Top 5 BOO!/WTF?!/LOL in a Bad Way Moments:
1.  Racist Sean Penn (It's obvious that Birdman will win when his name was called. Could've been Mel Gibson but Penn is okay.)
2. The Eddie Murphy Joke by NPH
3. Terrence Howard's intimate moment
4. J. Lo's dress
5. Big Hero Six winning over Princess Kaguya (at least it's not How To Train Your Dragon 2)

AND THE OSCAR GOES TO….

Sunday, February 1, 2015

TOP TEN FILIPINO FILMS OF 2014

Twenty-fourteen is a great year for the Philippine movie industry. Even if there are a ton of mehs along the way, good films were recognized and Pinoy filmmakers won awards. Disclaimer: I didn't use the term "Best" for I'm not an expert in film criticism. To start this, I have to mention some movies that didn’t make it in the top ten but became noteworthy parts of the past year.