Anything Under The Sun

Comedy films have dominated this year’s Metro Manila Film Festival. The Awards Night was held at the Meralco Theater on the 26th of December. The criteria for judging the winners are 70% based on the artistry, the creativity and technical excellence, innovativeness, thematic value and global appear. The 30 % is based on the cultural and/or historical value.

The most coveted award of the night which is Best Picture goes to the last installment of the comedy film of Ai Ai delas Alas which is “Ang Tanging Ina Mo (Last Na ‘To)”. Aside from the Best Picture, the movie has also garnered 7 more major awards. These awards are as follows:

Best Actress: Ai Ai delas Alas
Best Director: Wenn Deramas
Best Supporting Actress: Eugene Domingo
Best Story and Best Screenplay: Mel Del Rosario
Best Musical Score: Jesse Lazatin
Best Child Performer: Zyrel Manabat
Gender Sensitive Film

The Comedy King Dolphy on the other hand has won the Best Actor Award for the movie “Father Jejemon”, another comedy film. And for the first time in the Metro Manila Film Festival history, he also won the Best Supporting Actor for the movie “Rosario”. The movie Rosario has also won the second Best Picture of the Year followed by the animated movie RPG Metanoia as 3rd Best Picture.

And For the Minor Awards, "Si Agimat At Si Enteng Kabisote" won the Best Make-Up and Best Visual Effects. John Wong won the Best Editing for the movie "Rosario". The trio of Band vocalists “Kaya Ko” won Best Theme Song from the movie "RPG Metanoia". The Best Sound recording goes to “RPG Metanoia” and “Super Inday and the Golden Bibe”. The Best Production Design goes to Joey Luna and Mickey Hahn for the movie “Rosario”. Carlo Mendoza won Best Cinematography for the movie “Rosario”. The Male Face of the Night is no other than Bong Revilla and the Female Face of the Night is Sam Pinto. Dennis Trillo won Best Dressed Male Celebrity and Jennylyn Mercado won Best Dressed Female Celebrity. “Rosario” won the Best Float award.

And that concluded the Metro Manila Film Festival for the Year 2010.

The year 2010 is about to end, and of course the year will not end without looking back on the best and the worst things that happened for the whole year. You will know if the event is the best or the worst if people all around the globe are talking about it. Now, thank you to the Social Media Networking called Twitter for making it possible for us to identify what are the most talked about topics for the whole year.

I have here the list of top trending topics in Twitter, this could be a good measure about what’s hot and what’s not in the year 2010.

1.    Gulf Oil Spill

Number 1 on the list is all about the Gulf Oil Spill. This is rather a tragedy than an event. The damage of this oil spill over Mississippi river is undeniable and people around the globe are pretty much concern, that is the reason maybe it has become the most talk about topic in Twitter.

2.    FIFA World Cup

Africa, Shakira, football. Who can forget the most exciting and the most anticipated sport event of the year? The World Cup 2010 has opened the eyes of all the people to the beauty of Africa.

3.    Inception

I never expected this movie will be on the top three of the most talk about topics in 2010. The movie is thought provoking, hence the cause of the discussion over Twitter.

4.    Haiti Earthquake

This is I think the most disappointing tragedy of the year, of course, the earthquake that happened in Haiti. Thousands of lives and livelihood were devastated because of this.

5.    Vuvuzela

I am not familiar about this, but my search says that this is that buzzing sound during the FIFA World Cup in Africa. Oh, that annoying sound.

6.    Apple iPad

The journey of tablet computer has begun this year. Thanks to Apple iPad for spearheading the technology. There are a lot of comments on the web, either negative or positive.

7.    Google Android

Google never fails to provide new applications to the users. The Google Android take it on the 7th spot.

8.    Justin Bieber

Considered the fastest rising star, Justin Beiber is the 8th trending topic in Twitter. Thanks to all his teenage supporters. Justin Beiber’s spot may represent the voice of the youth.

9.    Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows

The first part of the last installment of Harry Potter has also created some noise over Twitter.

10.    Pulpo Paul

And of course, who can forget Paul the Octopus? He is that psychic Octopus who was able to predict the winner for the FIFA World Cup 2010. Sad to say, Paul the Octopus died later this year.

The best activity that you can do on Christmas day is to watch movie.  The best of the best movies throughout the year will be released on theater for the annual Metro Manila Film Festival. One of the most anticipated entries on the said event is the first ever Pinoy animated film on 3D, the RPG Metanoia.

After five years of production, the film is finally set to be released this year. The release of the movie should suppose to be on year 2009, but because of additional production, it was set to release on Christmas of 2010.

According to Star Cinema, they believe in the material that’s why they have invested on the production. This would be the first ever animated film made by Filipinos to be shown in full length in 3D. Ambient Media is also in partnership with Star Cinema to make this movie possible.

The film is all about a group of friends who are trying to escape the realities by investing all their time on massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs). Nico, the main character in the movie together with his friends Mark, Daniel, Bryan, Bobby, and May take over their online gaming characters to fight the battle against the villains. Their characters are the Vagabond Traveler, Zero Folk Hero Ahdonis, Chi Master K’mao, Spiritist/Monster hunter Mang Ernie, Weapon-smith Sumpak, and beast monster C4SS4NDR4. The group of kids is trapped into the MMORPG world they are playing in facing the challenge to defeat the villains.

You can treat your kids this Christmas by watching this movie as this has been evaluated by Cinema Evaluation Board and gave the film an “A” rating.
Let’s all be proud to be Pinoy.

After the controversy on the life of drama-comedy actor and award winning director Mel Gibson, he is now back in a movie that would make people like him again. Mel Gibson is on his fallout when he was dropped as a cast of the movie Hangover because of his anti-Semitic, racist and misogynist rants. A lot of people are very disappointed about Mel Gibson and started to dislike him.

But now, Mel Gibson is back under the hood of the movie “The Beaver”. The movie is all about the story of Walter, a father who lost everything because of being broken. He lost his family, he lost his self and most of all the confident to live a wonderful life. At the verge of his distress, he found a beaver puppet on the garbage. Desperate of changing all the negativities that happened to his life, he put a voice to a puppet beaver in a British accent and from then on, he and the puppet become one. Because of that, he was able to revive the trust of his wife and get his family back. The puppet beaver that is clutched on the hand of Walter help him become a better person that he is used to be.

The story actually resembles on the real life of Mel Gibson. He is on the end of the rope when people started to turn their back on him because of the controversy. Just as he is about to fall out, this movie “The Beaver” will make people like him again. The movie will surely explain his remorse and that like Walter, he also want to change everything and get the respect back from the people. Mel Gibson has his chance on the movie “The Beaver” to let the ball rolling again.