John's top Ten of 2014

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.