Friday, January 1, 2016

MONG'S TOP MOVIES OF 2015



89. We Are Your Friends - Max Joseph
88. Cooties - Jonathan Milott / Cary Murnion
87. American Ultra - Nima Nourizadeh
86. Big Game - Jalmari Helander
85. Unfriended - Leo Gabriadze
84. Dragon Nest: Warrior's Dawn - Song Yuefeng
83. Insidious: Chapter 3 - Leigh Whannell
82. Boychoir - François Girard
81. Paper Towns - Jake Schreier

80. In The Heart Of The Sea - Ron Howard
79. Ricki And The Flash - Jonathan Demme
78. Fatal Frame - Mari Asato
77. Love, Rosie - Christian Ditter
76. The Visit - M. Night Shyamalan
75. From Vegas To Macau - Wong Jing
74. Gangnam Blues - Yoo Ha
73. Comet - Sam Esmail
72. Magic Mike XXL - Gregory Jacobs
71. Into The Woods - Rob Marshall

70. The Taking Of Deborah Logan - Adam Robitel
69. Spectre - Sam Mendes
68. Tomorrowland - Brad Bird
67. My Love, My Bride - Im Chan-sang
66. SPL II: A Time For Consequences - Cheang Pou-soi
65. Honeymoon - Leigh Janiak
64. The Age Of Adaline - Lee Toland Krieger
63. Z For Zachariah - Craig Zobel
62. Run All Night - Jaume Collet-Serra
61. Jurassic World - Colin Trevorrow

60. Hotel Transylvania 2 - Genndy Tartakovsky
59. The Admiral: Roaring Currents - Kim Han-min
58. Doraemon: Nobita's Space Heroes - Yoshihiro Osugi
57. The Last Five Years - Richard LaGravenese
56. Pitch Perfect 2 - Elizabeth Banks
55. You're My Boss - Antoinette Jadaone
54. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 - Francis Lawrence
53. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water - Paul Tibbitt / Mike Mitchell
52. Once Upon A Time In Shanghai - Wong Ching-po
51. Trainwreck - Judd Apatow

50. The Voices - Marjane Satrapi
49. Waves - Don Gerardo Frasco
48. Big Eyes - Tim Burton
47. The Last: Naruto The Movie - Tsuneo Kobayashi
46. Clown - Jon Watts
45. Etiquette For Mistresses - Chito S. Roño
44. Crimson Peak - Guillermo del Toro
43. Stand By Me Doraemon - Takashi Yamazaki / Ryūichi Yagi / Tony Oliver
42. Cinderella - Kenneth Branagh
41. American Sniper - Clint Eastwood

40. Kingsman: The Secret Service - Matthew Vaughn
39. Black Mass - Scott Cooper
38. Asterix: The Land Of The Gods - Alexandre Astier / Louis Clichy
37. Everest - Baltasar Kormákur
36. The Breakup Playlist - Dan Villegas
35. The Good Lie - Philippe Falardeau
34. The Thieves - Choi Dong-hoon
33. Assassination - Choi Dong-hoon
32. The Good Dinosaur - Peter Sohn
31. M. (Mother's Maiden Name) - Zig Madamba Dulay

30. The Theory Of Everything - James Marsh
29. Spy - Paul Feig
28. Furious 7 - James Wan
27. Avengers: Age Of Ultron - Joss Whedon
26. Ant-Man - Peyton Reed
25. Wild - Jean-Marc Vallée
24. It Follows - David Robert Mitchell
23. Heneral Luna - Jerrold Tarog
22. The Gift - Joel Edgerton
21. Predestination - Michael Spierig / Peter Spierig

20. The Walk - Robert Zemeckis
19. A Second Chance - Cathy Garcia-Molina
18. Me And Earl And The Dying Girl - Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
17. Straight Outta Compton - F. Gary Gray
16. Birdman Or (The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance) - Alejandro G. Iñárritu
15. Paddington - Paul King
14. The Little Prince - Mark Osborne
13. The Imitation Game - Morten Tyldum
12. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation - Christopher McQuarrie

11. PARASYTE

Director: Takashi Yamazaki
Based on Parasyte by Hitoshi Iwaaki
Cast: Shota Sometani / Sadao Abe / Eri Fukatsu / Ai Hashimoto
          Masahiro Higashide / Nao Omori / Kazuki Kitamura
          Pierre Taki / Hirofumi Arai / Jun Kunimura / Kimiko Yo
          Tadanobu Asano
Distributor: Toho
Release Date: 11 February 2015
Box Office: $16,611,780 (WW)

"I couldn’t call myself a fan of the manga, but the film adaptation of Parasyte hits the hard-to-find sweet spot between black comedy and serious sci-fi/horror, while uncannily echoing scare headlines about the worldwide spread of the Ebola virus. It’s what so many directors would like to make, but seldom do: a well-made piece of popular entertainment that not only reflects the zeitgeist, but is a step ahead of it."
Mark Schilling, The Japan Times


10. SICARIO


Director: Denis Villeneuve
Cast: Emily Blunt / Benicio del Toro / Josh Brolin
          Daniel Kaluuya / Maximiliano Hernández / Victor Garber
          Jon Bernthal / Jeffrey Donovan / Raoul Trujillo
          Julio Cedillo / Hank Rogerson / Bernardo P. Saracino
Distributor: Lionsgate
Release Date: 28 October 2015
Box Office: PHP3,313,052
                    $80,416,631 (WW)


"Pulled from the news but punched up to fever pitch, Sicario represents the perfect mix of cerebral and visceral thrills. Star, director and screenwriter all bring their
A-game."
Matt Glasby, Total Film






9. BRIDGE OF SPIES

Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Tom Hanks / Mark Rylance / Scott Shepherd / Amy Ryan
          Sebastian Koch / Alan Alda / Austin Stowell
          Billy Magnussen / Eve Hewson / Jesse Plemons
          Michael Gaston / Peter McRobbie
          Domenick Lombardozzi / Will Rogers / Dakin Matthews
          Stephen Kunken / Joshua Harto / Mark Zak
          Edward James Hyland / Mikhail Gorevoy
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: 14 October 2015
Box Office: PHP17,858,789
                    $138,140,787 (WW)
"Some 40 years into his career and still a master of his craft, Spielberg has taken an important but largely forgotten and hardly action-packed slice of the Cold War and turned it into a gripping character study and thriller that feels a bit like a John Le Carre adaptation if Frank Capra were at the controls."
Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times


8. THAT THING CALLED TADHANA


Director: Antoinette Jadaone
Cast: Angelica Panganiban / JM de Guzman / Joem Bascon
Distributor: Star Cinema
Release Date: 04 February 2015
Box Office: PHP134,000,000


"There are two things that define the Filipino romantic comedy: kilig and manufactured conflict. What is strange and ultimately so memorable about That Thing Called Tadhana is that it eschews both. Even with a premise that feels unlikely, it builds a relationship that feels so much closer to what people experience in real life."
Philbert Ortiz Dy, ClickTheCity.com






7. SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE


Based on Shaun The Sheep by Nick Park
Directors: Richard Starzak / Mark Burton
Cast: Justin Fletcher / John Sparkes / Omid Djalili
          Kate Harbour / Richard Webber / Tim Hands
          Simon Greenall / Emma Tate / Henry Burton
          Dhimant Vyas / Sophie Laughton / Nia Medi James
          Sean Connolly / Stanley Unwin / Andy Nyman
          Jack Paulson / Nick Park
Distributor: StudioCanal
Release Date: 29 April 2015
Box Office: $83,475,982 (WW)


"Shaun The Sheep might look like an exciting, no-nonsense tale for little kids — and it totally is, on one level — but beneath its pitch-perfect simplicity lies great wisdom and beauty."
Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine (Vulture)




6. STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS
Based on characters by George Lucas
Director: J. J. Abrams
Cast: Harrison Ford / Mark Hamill / Carrie Fisher / Adam Driver
          Daisy Ridley / John Boyega / Oscar Isaac
          Lupita Nyong'o / Andy Serkis / Domhnall Gleeson
          Anthony Daniels / Peter Mayhew / Max Von Sydow
Distributor: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Release Date: 17 December 2015
Box Office: PHP188,043,259
                    $1,228,349,526 (WW)
"But if the original three Star Wars films were about young goodness triumphing over ingrained evil, The Force Awakens very cleverly turns this narrative back on itself. It’s storytelling like this – addictively bold and wildly exciting – that sends The Force Awakens surging through your capillaries and straight to your heart, even more so than the beautifully styled planets, the rubbery monsters, the measured pacing, and the heavy dusting of nostalgia."
Robbie Collin, The Telegraph

5. CREED
Based on characters by Sylvester Stallone
Director: Ryan Coogler
Cast: Michael B. Jordan / Sylvester Stallone / Tessa Thompson
          Phylicia Rashād / Tony Bellew / Graham McTavish
          Wood Harris / Andre Ward / Gabriel Rosado
          Ritchie Coster / Jacob "Stitch" Duran
          Ricardo "Padman" McGill / Malik Bazille / Derrick Webster
          Hans Marrero / Tone Trump / Brian Anthony Wilson
          Liev Schreiber
Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures
                    Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: 09 December 2015
Box Office: PHP6,825,328
                    $108,086,653 (WW)

"Like Rocky, Creed mingles go-for-broke romance with bloody pugilist thrills—but instead of feeling like a rehash, it works like gangbusters. Coogler honors and builds upon the Rocky formula so that it feels both comfortingly old-fashioned and bracingly new."
Stephanie Zacharek, Time


4. THE MARTIAN


Based on The Martian by Andy Weir
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Matt Damon / Jessica Chastain / Kristen Wiig
          Jeff Daniels / Michael Peña / Kate Mara / Sean Bean
          Sebastian Stan / Aksel Hennie / Chiwetel Ejiofor
          Donald Glover / Benedict Wong / Mackenzie Davis
          Eddy Ko / Chen Shu / Naomi Scott / Nick Mohammed
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: 30 September 2015
Box Office: PHP69,837,324
                    $594,161,725 (WW)


"What’s so fascinating about the film is that it truly turns on the solving of problems, and its chief solver, stuck on Mars, manages to be so funny, interesting and infallibly likable that you’re invested in his predicament at every moment."
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal



3. MULA SA KUNG ANO ANG NOON


Director: Lav Diaz
Cast: Perry Dizon / Roeder / Hazel Orencio / Karenina Haniel
          Mailes Kanapi / Reynan Abcede
Release Date: 12 August 2015


"Mula Sa Kung Ano Ang Noon captures a specific moment in history, but it speaks of the nation as a whole, and of humanity in an even bigger sense. Once again, Diaz delivers a parable of empathy rooted in the history of our people. And he does it in his inimitable style."
Philbert Ortiz Dy, ClickTheCity.com








2. MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
Director: George Miller
Cast: Tom Hardy / Charlize Theron / Nicholas Hoult
          Hugh Keays-Byrne / Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
          Riley Keough / Zoë Kravitz / Abbey Lee
          Courtney Eaton / Josh Helman / Nathan Jones
          John Howard / Richard Carter / Angus Sampson / iOTA
          Quentin Kenihan / Jennifer Hagan / Jon Iles
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: 14 May 2015
Box Office: PHP50,177,530
                    $375,836,354 (WW)
"Mad Max: Fury Road is epic, awe-inducing, extreme eye candy of the highest order, something like Buñuel meets Howard Hawks by way of an epinephrined-up Monte Hellman. Unstoppable and righteous, it roars across the no-lane hardpan like the four-iron horseman of the kinetic apocalypse, amped up on bathtub crank and undiluted movie love. Oh, what a movie. What a lovely movie!"
Marc Savlov, Austin Chronicle

1. INSIDE OUT


Director: Pete Docter
Cast: Amy Poehler / Phyllis Smith / Bill Hader
          Lewis Black / Mindy Kaling / Richard Kind
          Kaitlyn Dias / Diane Lane
          Kyle MacLachlan / Paula Poundstone
          Bobby Moynihan / Paula Pell
          Dave Goelz / Frank Oz / Josh Cooley
          Flea / John Ratzenberger
          Carlos Alazraqui / Lori Alan
          Rashida Jones
Distributor: Walt Disney
Release Date: 19 August 2015
Box Office: PHP178,182,103
                    $856,130,132 (WW)





"Too sophisticated? Maybe so when the film takes us to the dark subconscious, where troublemakers go. Kids will probably roll with the abstract punches thrown by this burst of pure imagination. Parents and adults will likely be traumatized. You've been warned."
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

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