My top Ten Films of the year
10. Interstellar
Plot: A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival.
Scene that proves it: The Wormhole scenes
9. Chef
Plot: A chef who loses his restaurant job starts up a food truck in an effort to reclaim his creative promise, while piecing back together his estranged family.
Scene That proves it: The road trip from Florida to California.
8. Foxcatcher
Plot: The greatest Olympic Wrestling Champion brother team joins Team Foxcatcher led by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988 games in Seoul - a union that leads to unlikely circumstances.
Scene That Proves it: Channing Tatum banging his head on the mirror.
7. Selma
Plot: A chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.
Scene That proves it: The first attempted march from Selma to Montgomery
6. Inherent Vice.
Plot: In 1970, drug-fueled Los Angeles detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of a former girlfriend.
Scene that proves it: Katherine Waterson's full frontal scene
5. Guardians Of The Galaxy
Plot:A group of intergalactic criminals are forced to work together to stop a fanatical warrior from taking control of the universe.
Scene That proves it: The prison Break
4. American Sniper
Plot: Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle's pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and turns him into a legend. Back home to his wife and kids after four tours of duty, however, Chris finds that it is the war he can't leave behind.
Scene that proves it: The Opening sequence
3. Boyhood.
Plot: The life of a young man, Mason, from age 5 to age 18.
Scene that proves it: The Bowling Alley scene.
2. Gone Girl
Plot: With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Scene that proves it: Where Amazing Amy went on July 5th
AND THE BEST FILM OF 2014 IS.....
WHIPLASH.
Plot: A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.
Scene that proves it: The Finale.
