The film awards season has recently reached its close. Like any other year, the season wouldn’t close without fire. The Oscars, more notably, trudged through its most controversial and awkward edition yet. That night viewed less than a night for film recognition but a platform for Chris Rock’s no-B.S. zone
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The Revenant
The four-way battle of man vs. man vs. nature vs. himself has never been construed in the way The Revenant does in this Oscar-nominated epic survival film. Once again, Alejandro González Iñárritu blesses us with a masterclass visual poetry as he cements his spot into one of the world’s visionary
‘The Revenant’ makes a second run at PH theaters this week
The Revenant—fresh from its wins at the recently concluded Academy Awards—is returning to Philippine theaters this week, March 2, for reasons already quite obvious. Leonardo DiCaprio, Emmanuel Lubezki, and Alejandro González Iñárritu all won the awards for Best Actor, Best Cinematography, and Best Director, respectively. Surely there’s a new market of
A List of First Times at the #Oscars2016
Smoke hasn’t cleared from the fire that is the 88th Academy Awards—a.k.a. the most awkward Oscars night ever. During the three-hour show: Stacey Dash walked awkwardly on and off stage; Sacha Baron Cohen brought his awkward Ali G. character; and every key figure graced with the elusive audience reaction shot awkwardly
Essentials: Alejandro González Iñárritu
In line with the release of Iñárritu’s new film The Revenant, we are launching a recurring feature in which we pick who we think is a key figure of cinema and revisit his/her most noteworthy titles—hence the name “Essentials”. Our man Kayo Jolongbayan looks back and discusses the films of the Hispanic cinema champion,
‘The Revenant’, ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ lead Oscars 2016 nominations
It’s a match between survival films at The 88th Oscars, with The Revenant and Mad Max: Fury Road garnering the most number of nominations. The announcement was made Thursday morning (Thursday night, Philippine time) at California by directors Ang Lee and Guillermo del Toro, actor John Kransinski, and AMPAS president Cheryl
Alejandro González Iñárritu talks ‘The Revenant’ with Michael Mann
It’s the start of 2016, and part of most cinephile’s new year’s resolution is to complete their Oscar checklist before the awards night. With all these Oscar talk and acclaim, I’m sure we are looking forward to Alejandro Gonzales Iñárritu’s latest epic The Revenant starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy which will
Leonardo DiCaprio misunderstands “bear” knuckle boxing in new ‘The Revenant’ trailer
From the looks of it, Alejandro Iñárritu, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, and company are all ready to put up a hell of a fight this awards season with their new revenge drama The Revenant. Inspired by true events, the film tells the tale of American explorer Hugh Glass (DiCaprio), who is
Must-reads of the week: July 19 – July 25
It’s Sunday, time to check out this week’s film highlights on World Cinema! … The Guardian’s Ruby Lott-Lavigna points out that cinematic portrayals of lesbians need to be more real: The predatory-conversion trope is simply offensive to lesbian women; at its least-worst, is just a realisation of how difficult it
Leonardo DiCaprio in Alejandro Iñárritu’s hard-hitting ‘The Revenant’ trailer
The Revenant—not to be confused with Kerry Prior’s 2009 horror/dark comedy—is the latest from Birdman-director Alejandro González Iñárritu. The film is centered on the life of Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) as he charges for survival through the 19th century American wilderness. If Jennifer Lawrence and David O. Russell are regrouping onto a
