Top Ten 2014 Films for Grownups
Top 10 Films of 2014 for Grownups from AARP Magazine
Magic in the Moonlight
There is no magic in theater during Magic in the Moonlight, the latest offering from Woody Allen. Although I’m a huge Colin Firth fan, as well as a fan of Emma Stone, both of them should have skipped this project. It was forgettable and anything but magical.
Lucy
Lucy is an action packed movie about a drug deal gone bad. The drug deal wasn’t the only thing headed that direction.
Words and Pictures
Is a man worth more than his words, a woman worth more than her pictures?
Words and Pictures is a romantic comedy with a bittersweet edge.
Muppets Most Wanted – Review
Muppets Most Wanted starts up exactly where the last one left off and in usual Muppet fashion, opens with a big, fun opening musical number about being a sequel which is guaranteed to have you laughing right from the start.
Prisoners
If a madman whispered something to you that let you know that he knew where your child was, but no one else heard it, and he was let loose; what would you do?
Oblivion
Oblivion is full of eye candy: the landscapes, the space pool, and of course Cruise. However, eye candy does not a movie make, which is something Cruise has forgotten along the way somewhere.
Olympus Has Fallen
Gerard Butler is a wonderful hero taking on an entire cadre of bad guys in Olympus Has Fallen.
Silver Linings Playbook
The Silver Linings Playbook is a painfully, funny film full of all too human characters. If you relate to a family that is quite a few degrees off-center, then you will probably love this movie.
The Words
I must admit that I was looking forward to The Words. The trailer intrigued me. In today’s world of bigger and louder action films, I find that I seek out some of the smaller ones that deal with quieter themes, such as ethics. Unfortunately, this particular movie did not deliver as much as I had hoped it would. Bradley Cooper in The Words With a pedigreed cast with Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Irons, Dennis Quaid, Olivia Wilde and Zoë Saldana, it was reasonable to think that The Words would deliver excellent performances in a tightly constructed mystery; instead The Words delivered a rather lackluster, at times, boring construction without a genuine spark of intrigue. For a film based around an ethical dilemma, there just wasn’t much tension built into it by the writing and directing team of Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal. I suppose their inexperience is showing in this production, although with a debut like this, them may not get another stab at directing. When the end of The Words finally arrived, it landed with a flat note. The audience seemed to just look around and think.. “Oh.. I guess it’s time to leave.” That final flat note pretty much summed up The Words… flat, and disappointing. I would recommend that you pass on The Words, and save the money for something with a little more life in it; something like a zombie film perhaps…. If the eight ball goes into any other pocket besides the one he called, he loses. Don’t lose. Alright, Jeff missed his shot. I accepted an offer to serve as a game analyst for...
The Hedgehog (Le hérisson)
The Hedgehog (Le hérisson) is a quiet film, where things don’t always work out as we would like. Life has its own agenda. It reminds us of how important it is to pay attention to those around us, and to value the quiet moments.
Your Highness – A Low Point
There is nothing high about Your Highness, except perhaps the drug level of the writers when they created the script. Your Highness is the low point of the Spring movie season for me. See anything else, you’ll be happier.
Source Code
Jake Gyllenhaal stars in Source Code as Captain Colter Stevens with Michelle Monaghan as Christina Warren (the girl he wants to save) and Vera Farmigad as Goodwin, his liaison during the mission. If you were to cross the TV series Seven Days with the film Groundhog Day, you have an approximation of the upcoming film, with a twist here and there.
No Strings Attached
No Strings Attached is a decidedly adult comedy, turning the tables on the idea that men are the only ones who want to have no strings attached sex.
The Kids Are All Right
The Kids Are All Right is an interesting story that deals with ordinary life in a not so ordinary household. When you are raising two teenagers in a lesbian home, eventually there are questions.