The Imitation Game (2014)
“If you’re not carefully listening you will miss some things. Important things.” I would not be typing these words or writing this review had it not been for Alan Turing. […]
Tag Archives: Drama
Selma (2014)
“Fear not. We’ve come too far to turn back now.” Everyone is afraid of change to a certain degree. Unwilling to switch up your standard order at a restaurant, reluctant […]
Love Is Strange (2014)
“Sometimes when you live with people, you know them better than you care to.” What’s odd is how this movie isn’t strange at all. Love Is Strange is a brief chapter ripped out […]
Unbroken (2014)
“If I can take it, I can make it.” This time of year it’s hard to leave Unbroken and not feel the need to set some loftier New Year’s resolutions. After all, few […]
Foxcatcher (2014)
“What’s he get out of all this?” In its opening shot, Foxcatcher director Bennett Miller ingeniously sets up, and almost tells, the entire grief-ridden story in one brief set of frames. Hulking […]
The Gambler (2014)
“I think you’re the kinda guy who likes to lose.” I’m in the minority when I say that this remake, which is actually more of a reimagining, is a better film […]
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
“No man is a failure who has friends.” In 1946 It’s a Wonderful Life somehow was a box-office disappointment, especially when compared to the cultural cannon status it’s attained today. Coined as too sentimental and […]
Wild (2014)
“I’m lonelier in my real life than I am out here.” I had high hopes going into Wild knowing it was an adaptation by the renowned Nick Hornby and directed by Oscar […]
Dear White People (2014)
“It’s a strange symbiosis that we’re here to investigate.” I’ll just come out and say it; I did not like this movie. There’s no lead character, no tangible or metaphorical […]
Whiplash (2014)
“Not my tempo.” How do you define greatness? Semantics presumes that there are three key steps. Denotatively Merriam-Webster would say, “exceptionally high quality.” Then you take its connotation – the idea […]
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