Saturday, January 24, 2015

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.






Tuesday, January 13, 2015

FINAL 2015 OSCAR PREDICTIONS

Bold indicates Predicted winner.

Best Picture:
American Sniper
Birdman 
Boyhood
Gone Girl
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Selma
The Theroy Of Everything
Whiplash

In Case There's ten: Nightcrawler

Best Director:
Clint Eastwood - American Sniper
Alejandro Gonzalez-Inarratu - Birdman
Richard Linklater - Boyhood
Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel
Ava DuVernay - Selma

Best Actor:
Ralph Fiennes - The Grand Budapest Hotel
Jake Gyllenhaal - Nightcrawler 
Michael Keaton - Birdman
David Oyelowo - Selma 
Eddie Redmayne - The Theroy Of Everything

Best Actress: 
Amy Adams - Big Eyes 
Felicity Jones - The Theroy Of Everything
Julianne Moore - Still Alice
Rosamund Pike - Gone Girl
Reese Witherspoon - Wild

Best Supporting Actor:
Steve Carell - Foxcatcher
Ethan Hawke - Boyhood
Edward Norton - Birdman
Mark Ruffalo - Foxcatcher
J.K. Simmons - Whiplash

Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette - Boyhood 
Jessica Chastain - A Most Violent Year
Keira Knightley - The Imitation Game
Emma Stone - Birdman
Meryl Streep - Into The Woods 

Best Original Screenplay:
Birdman
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Nightcrawler
Selma

Best Adapted Screenplay
Gone Girl
The Imitation Game
The Theory Of Everything
Unbroken
Whiplash

Animated Feature
Big Hero 6
The Boxtrolls
How To Train Your Dragon 2
The Lego Movie
The Tale Of Princess Kaguya

Production Design:
Big Eyes
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Into The Woods
Selma 

Cinematography:
Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Mr. Turner
Selma
Unbroken

Costume Design: 
Belle
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Into The Woods
Mr. Turner
Selma

Film Editing:
Birdman
Boyhood
Gone Girl
Selma
Whiplash

Makeup & Hairstyling
Foxcatcher
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Guardians Of The Galaxy

Sound Mixing
American Sniper
Get On Up
Godzilla
Interstellar
Transformers: Age Of Extinction

Sound Editing
American Sniper
Godzilla
Guardians Of The Galaxy
Interstellar
Transformers: Age Of Extinction

Visual Effects
Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes
Godzilla
Guardians Of The Galaxy
Interstellar
Transformers: Age Of Extinction

Original Score
Gone Girl
The Grand Budpest Hotel
Interstellar
The Theory Of Everything
Unbroken

Original Song
Begin Again - Lost Stars
Boyhood - Split The Difference
The Lego Movie - Everything Is Awesome
Noah - Mercy Is
Selma - Glory

Best Documentary
The Case Against 8
Citizenfour
Finding Vivian Maher
Life Itself
Virunga

Foreign Language
Force Majeure - Sweden
Ida - Poland
Leviathan - Russia
Timbuktu - Mauritania
Wild Tales - Argentina

Thursday, January 8, 2015

UPDATED 2015 OSCAR PREDICTIONS

Bold indicates Predicted winner.

Best Picture:
American Sniper
Birdman 
Boyhood
Gone Girl
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Selma
The Theroy Of Everything
Whiplash

In Case There's ten: Nightcrawler

Best Director:
Alejandro Gonzalez-Inarratu - Birdman
Richard Linklater - Boyhood
David Fincher - Gone Girl
Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel
Ava DuVernay - Selma

Best Actor:
Ralph Fiennes - The Grand Budapest Hotel
Jake Gyllenhaal - Nightcrawler 
Michael Keaton - Birdman
David Oyelowo - Selma 
Eddie Redmayne - The Theroy Of Everything

Best Actress: 
Jennifer Aniston - Cake
Felicity Jones - The Theroy Of Everything
Julianne Moore - Still Alice
Rosamund Pike - Gone Girl
Reese Witherspoon - Wild

Best Supporting Actor:
Josh Brolin - Inherent Vice
Ethan Hawke - Boyhood
Edward Norton - Birdman
Mark Ruffalo - Foxcatcher
J.K. Simmons - Whiplash

Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette - Boyhood 
Jessica Chastain - A Most Violent Year
Keira Knightley - The Imitation Game
Emma Stone - Birdman
Meryl Streep - Into The Woods 

Best Original Screenplay:
Birdman
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Nightcrawler
Selma

Best Adapted Screenplay
Gone Girl
The Imitation Game
The Theory Of Everything
Unbroken
Whiplash

Animated Feature
Big Hero 6
The Boxtrolls
How To Train Your Dragon 2
The Lego Movie
The Tale Of Princess Kaguya

Production Design:
Big Eyes
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Into The Woods
Selma 

Cinematography:
Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Mr. Turner
Selma
Unbroken

Costume Design: 
Belle
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Into The Woods
Mr. Turner
Selma

Film Editing:
Birdman
Boyhood
Gone Girl
Selma
Whiplash

Makeup & Hairstyling
Foxcatcher
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Guardians Of The Galaxy

Sound Mixing
American Sniper
Get On Up
Godzilla
Interstellar
Transformers: Age Of Extinction

Sound Editing
American Sniper
Godzilla
Guardians Of The Galaxy
Interstellar
Transformers: Age Of Extinction

Visual Effects
Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes
Godzilla
Guardians Of The Galaxy
Interstellar
Transformers: Age Of Extinction

Original Score
Gone Girl
The Grand Budpest Hotel
Interstellar
The Theory Of Everything
Unbroken

Original Song
Begin Again - Lost Stars
Boyhood - Split The Difference
The Lego Movie - Everything Is Awesome
Noah - Mercy Is
Selma - Glory

Best Documentary
The Case Against 8
Citizenfour
Finding Vivian Maher
Life Itself
Virunga

Foreign Language
Force Majeure - Sweden
Ida - Poland
Leviathan - Russia
Timbuktu - Mauritania
Wild Tales - Argentina




Sunday, December 28, 2014

2014 in review: Taylor Swift and Other People We Need To Vote Off The Island

2014 has been an interesting year in celebrity news. There’s been so many interstesting stories and so much tomfoolery that almost threatened to overwhelm all the good. It was because of this year’s crazy celeb stuff that I decided I need to compile a list of the people on this planet I felt needed to be voted off the island.
In no particular order:

Taylor Swift: She. Just. Can't. Make. Headlines. Unless. She. Has. A. Dick. In. Her. Mouth. Plus 1989 was trash

Ray Rice: Example A of what you should not do to ruin your career

David Backes: He's just the scum of sports who makes constant cheap shots around the NHL. Brent Seabrook served him right in Game 2 of Round 1 of the playoffs.

Brendon Villegas & Rachel Reilly: Brenchel has outstayed there welcome on my island. Whatever they did on The Amazing Race All Stars was the Final Straw.

 Ann Coulter: Miss Coulter needs to take her Conservative trolling, American hating ass somewhere else, preferablly The Westboro Baptist Church

Donald Sterling: For saying maybe the dumbest thing ever. Also Freedom of Speech does equal Freedom of Consequences.

Armond White: I haven't forgotten your little "Doorman & Garbageman" comment towards Steve McQueen at NYFCC

Justin Bieber: He'll make this list every year until he goes.

Adrien Peterson: Example B of you should not do to ruin your career 

Nigel Lythgoe: For attempting to save a trash contestant not once but TWICE during this past season of American Idol

 Who do you want to see voted off the island?





Thursday, October 30, 2014

2014 Oscar Predictions

Bold indicates predicted winner

Best Picture:
Birdman
Boyhood
Foxcatcher
Gone Girl
The Imitation Game
Interstellar
The Theory Of Everything
UnBroken
Whiplash
If there's ten: American Sniper

Best Director
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - Birdman
Richard Linklater - Boyhood
Morten Tyldum - The Imitation Game
Christopher Nolan - Interstellar

Angelina Jolie - Unbroken

Best Actor

Steve Carell - Foxcatcher
Bradley Cooper - American Sniper
Benedict Cumberbatch - The Imitation Game
Michael Keaton - Birdman
Eddie Redmayne - The Theory Of Everything

Best Actress

Amy Adams - Big Eyes
Felicity Jones - The Theory Of Everything

Julianne Moore - Still Alice
Rosamund Pike - Gone Girl
Reese Witherspoon - Wild

Best Supporting Actor

Ethan Hawke - Boyhood
Miyavi - Unbroken
Edward Norton - Birdman
Mark Ruffalo - Foxcatcher
J.K. Simmons - Whiplash

Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette - Boyhood
Carmen Ejogo - Selma
Keira Knightley - The Imitation Game
Emma Stone - Birdman
Meryl Streep - Into The Woods

Best Original Screenplay
Birdman
Boyhood
Foxcatcher
Selma
Whiplash

Best Adapted Screenplay
American Sniper
Gone Girl
The Imitation Game
The Theory Of Everything
Unbroken

Best Animated Feature
Big Hero 6
The Boxtrolls
How To Train Your Dragon 2
The Lego Movie
The Tale Of Princess Kaguya

Achivement in Production Design
Exodus: Gods & Kings
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Into The Woods
Mr. Turner

Achivement in Cinematography
Birdman
Gone Girl
Interstellar
Mr. Turner
Unbroken

Achievement in Costume Design
Belle
Big Eyes
The Imitation Game
Into The Woods
Selma

Achievement in Film Editing
Birdman
Gone Girl
The Imitation Game
Interstellar
Unbroken

Achievement in Makeup & Hairstyling
Foxcatcher
Into The Woods
Maleficent

Achievement in Sound Mixing
Fury
Interstellar
Into The Woods
Transformers: Age Of Extinction
Unbroken

Achievement in Sound Editing
Fury
Godzilla
Guardians Of The Galaxy
Interstellar
UnBroken

Achievement in Visual Effects
Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes
Godzilla
Guardians Of The Galaxy
Interstellar
Transformers: Age Of Extinction

Best Original Score
Birdman
The Imitation Game
Interstellar
The Theory Of Everything
Unbroken

Best Original Song
Begin Again - Lost Stars
Big Hero 6 - Immortals
The Fault In Our Stars - Boom Clap
Everything Is Awesome - The Lego Movie
Shell Shocked- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Best Documentary Feature
CitizenFour
Fed Up
Glenn Campell: I'll Be Me
Life Itself
Red Army

Best Foreign Language Film
Ida - Poland
Leviathan - Russia
Two Days, One Night - Belgium
Wild Tales - Argentina
Winter Sleep - Turkey 







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Monday, August 11, 2014

RIP Robin Williams



Robin Williams has died today at the age of 63. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the actor was found today in his Tiburon, California home, appearing to have taken his own life.


The official police statement reads as follows:

"On August 11, 2014, at approximately 11:55 a.m, Marin County Communications received a 9-1-1 telephone call reporting a male adult had been located unconscious and not breathing inside his residence in unincorporated Tiburon, CA. The Sheriff’s Office, as well as the Tiburon Fire Department and Southern Marin Fire Protection District were dispatched to the incident with emergency personnel arriving on scene at 12:00 pm. The male subject, pronounced deceased at 12:02 pm has been identified as Robin McLaurin Williams, a 63-year-old resident of unincorporated Tiburon, CA.

An investigation into the cause, manner, and circumstances of the death is currently underway by the Investigations and Coroner Division s of the Sheriff’s Office. Preliminary information developed during the investigation indicates Mr. Williams was last seen alive at his residence, where he resides with his wife, at approximately 10:00 pm on August 10, 2014. Mr. Williams was located this morning shortly before the 9-1-1 call was placed to Marin County Communications. At this time, the Sheriff’s Office Coroner Division suspects the death to be a suicide due to asphyxia, but a comprehensive investigation must be completed before a final determination is made. A forensic examination is currently scheduled for August 12, 2014 with subsequent toxicology testing to be conducted."


Williams' publicist, Mara Buxbaum, said: "Robin Williams passed away this morning. He has been battling severe depression of late. This is a tragic and sudden loss. The family respectfully asks for their privacy as they grieve during this very difficult time."

His wife, Susan Schneider, said: "This morning, I lost my husband and my best friend, while the world lost one of its most beloved artists and beautiful human beings. I am utterly heartbroken. On behalf of Robin's family, we are asking for privacy during our time of profound grief. As he is remembered, it is our hope the focus will not be on Robin's death, but on the countless moments of joy and laughter he gave to millions."

Williams made a name for himself starring in the hit ABC series, "Mork & Mindy." Williams played Mork, an alien from the planet Ork, opposite Pam Dawber's Mindy. From there, Williams continued to build a name for himself as both a stand up comedian and an actor, winning an Academy Award for his work in Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting. He was nominated for three more Academy Awards and was also a two-time Emmy, five-time Golden Globe and six-time Grammy winner, but his incredible list of credits speaks for itself.

Williams recently starred in the CBS comedy series "The Crazy Ones," which was cancelled after one season, and will next appear in Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb in December.

20th Century Fox, the distributor of the "Night at the Museum" films, released the following statement: "There are no words to describe the loss of Robin Williams. Our hearts go out to his family, friends and fans. He will be deeply missed."

From Popeye to The World According to Garp to Good Morning Vietnam to Aladdin to Jumanji and Mrs. Doubtfire, everyone has their favorite Williams role. What was yours? Share your favorite Robin Williams memories in the comments below as we mourn the loss of a true Hollywood talent.