The 10 Best Films of 2014

Everyone seems to love the worst list rather than the best, but here's the list of what I loved the most this calendar year!.

10.  Bad Words:  A dark and viciously bitter satire that had me rolling in my chair.

9.  Gone Girl:  A tough first half, but takes on a much more entertaining edge in the second hour.

8.  X-Men: Days of Future Past:  A pretty well done time travel film, engrossing and fun

7.  Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead:  A hysterically splattery sequel that meets the originals standards.  You'll never hear Total Eclipse of the Heart in the same way..

6.  Fury:  Stunningly well done, one of the finest and hardest hitting war films since Saving Private Ryan

5.  Life Itself:  An examination of the life of the late Roger Ebert, will bring you to tears.

4.  Snowpiercer:  Woefully unknown film, class warfare on the train carrying what's left of mankind following a botched global warming fix.  Wonderful film.

3.  Boyhood:  Richard Linklater's look at a boy's life, filmed over 13 years (literally) from age 5-18.

2.  Interstellar:  Chris Nolan's take on deep, thoughful sci-fi isn't without flaws, but for something a bit more pure than a galaxy far far away, this is the best in a long time.

1.  Guardians of the Galaxy:  Everytime...EVERYTIME the opening strains of Redbone's Come and Get Your Love comes across the speakers and the action begins on screen, I get a huge cheesy smile across my face that never goes away the whole time.  How can you get a better experience than that?

The 10 Worst Films of 2014!

As always, this list spans only the 122 films I've seen that were released in this calendar year.  Here we go!


10.  Life After Beth:  Poor Beth thought death would free her from this awful film..

9.  Tusk:  Kevin Smith's weirdest and least watchable film

8.  Frank:  Self important hipster crap

7.  Divergent:  Yet more dystopian future YA over dramatized pseudo romantic drivel.

6.  Goodbye World:  Apocalypse forces hipsters to lose the internet, chaos ensues.

5.  Noah:  Loosely adapted bible story trying to appeal to all, appeals to no one instead.

4.  V/H/S Viral:  Yeah, it's diseased alright...

3.  The Amazing Spider-Man 2:  Translated as "sony learned nothing from Spider-Man 3"

2.  Into The Storm:  The only film in history to make Twister look like a documentary.

AND FINALLY....

1.  Transformers:  Age of Extinction:  Oh God, please....please please please...