Paul Thomas Anderson’s sophomore feature is a surprisingly vibrant, funny, and at times quite warm story of a dysfunctional filmmaking family in the adult film industry of the late 1970s.
The third film in the blockbuster series takes the fight out of the killing floor of the arenas and to the capitol in an act of revolution. It was the top box office hit of 2014.
Jeff Bridges stars as the bowler/stoner/free spirit slacker reluctantly turned detective in the cult comedy by the Coen Bros. It’s, you know, pretty groovy, man.
Clive Owen is a reluctant hero in a bleak future who is roused by what may be a miracle in Alfonso Cuaron’s magnificently crafted science fiction thriller.
Julianne Moore won her first Academy Award playing a respected professor who is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease and starts to experience her identity slipping away.
Tina Fey created and stars in this hilarious send-up of life behind the scenes at a late night comedy show and Alec Baldwin is brilliant as the network executive who fancies himself her mentor.
Todd Haynes draws from the songs, lives (real and imagined) and mysteries of Bob Dylan for his impressionistic survey of the artist, his art, his interaction (and at times collision) with the culture he both grabs onto and flees, and the mysteries that surround him.
The most successful adaptation of a young adult science fiction franchise comes to an end in the fourth and final film starring Jennifer Lawrence as the reluctant symbol turned revolutionary leader Katniss Everdeen.
