Here are my top 20 favorite movies of 2014. It’s been a great year for movies, and here’s to hoping that 2015 will be just as good if not even better. There are some movies that I did not have a chance to see like Whiplash and Still Alice so …
Category: 2014
10. NOAH This film has no idea what it wants to be. Is it Lord of the Rings or a biblical epic? The first half is so off and so badly paced that you wonder where the story is going. The chemistry between the characters is bad and the second …
Peter Jackson’s second Middle Earth trilogy comes to a grand conclusion in the third instalment of the Hobbit saga. The final film starts immediately where Desolation of Smaug left off, as Smaug the dragon is set free on Lake Town. We also now find Bilbo (Martin Freeman) Gandalf (Sir Ian McKellan), …
The original Dumb and Dumber is one of my favorite comedies of all time. It’s one of those timeless movies that has been quoted over and over again for twenty years. And twenty years later, we are here for the sequel. And while it isn’t a complete train wreck and …
Christopher Nolan has been my favorite director for a while now, so it’s safe to say that Interstellar was one of my most anticipated movies of the year. And while it isn’t a complete home run and it isn’t a perfect movie, it is still an incredible cinematic achievement to …
David Fincher has always been one of my favorite directors, from Se7en to Fight Club (which ranks in my top ten favorite movies of all time) to Zodiac and The Social Network, needless to say that Gone Girl was one of my most anticipated movies of the year, and it …
The Conjuring was flat out one of the best horror movies of the past decade. It was smart, scary, superbly well directed by James Wong and most importantly it wasn’t filled with stupid horror clichés or cheap jump scares that we are so used to getting nowadays. The film was …
The Maze Runner is Hollywood’s latest attempt to turn another young adult series into film, and while we seem to get them left and right after the success of Harry Potter and The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner is not a bad choice. In fact, this is a really good …
Guardians of the Galaxy was Marvel’s biggest risk to date. It was an unknown property that even comic book fans were unfamiliar with. And so I decided to pick up an issue of the comics and I loved the different vibe, tone and the amazing characters that I felt instantly …
Planet of the apes is in my opinion proven to be one of the best franchises ever created. Freshly coming of Rise of the Planet of the Apes surprisingly incredible reboot that was superbly well directed by Rupert Wyatt, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes takes place eight years …