After the Oscars, here’s what to watch

Norte, the End of History, directed by Lav Diaz. Yeah, sure, it played all over the world and got scads of attention. But here? After a week, it was gone, sent back to the festival circuit where its, er, meditative pace could be better appreciated. My mother-in-law just didn’t get it (“Why is he focusing on chickens for five minutes straight?”). Poverty porn never really plays well in the Philippines, does it?

Oscar season is over, a dimly recalled memory (who hosted? what won Best Picture again?), but we are still waiting for the good movies of 2015 to kick in. Since these things come in seasonal cycles, that leaves a lot of downtime between thrills. Sure, you could binge-watch TV shows like House of Cards or Better Call Saul or Walking Dead, but if you want to catch up on some quiet gems you may have missed out on in 2014, here’s a partial list of movies that should have been seen in more local cinemas, but were blindsided by the likes of Mockingjay Part 1 and Fifty Shades of Grey.

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