Best Bets in the Theater Right Now...

12 Years a Slave: A

    Click here for the review... One of the best, if not thee best slavery film that you'll ever see.  Very brutal and hard to watch... you have been warned.


About Time:  A+

click here for the review...  Great Story. Thorough and superbly told. Perfect date flick. May have knocked Love Actually off it's pedestal.  


GRAVITY:  A

Click here for the review...   One of the most underrated and surprisingly stunning films that I've seen in a very long time.  Heart pounding tense scenes and situations.  A picture that you can literally become apart of while you are sitting there in the theater seat.


MOST DISAPPOINTING
The Counselor:  C+ 

Click here for the review... and I'm being real generous with the + 

Oscar Nominee Predictions [so far]

 
BEST PICTURE: 42, 12 Years a Slave,  About Time,  Prisoners

BEST DIRECTING: Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave),  Brian Helgeland(42)

BEST ACTOR:  Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave), Matthew McConaughey(MUD(not reviewed on this site)), Forest Whitaker( the Butler)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Micheal Fassbender (12 Years a Slave), Harrison Ford (42), Daniel Brühl (RUSH)

BEST ACTRESS:  Ziyi Zhang (The Grandmaster)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Michelle Pfeiffer (The Family)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: About Time

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Lee Daniel's The Butler

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:  The Grandmaster, Gravity, Fruitvale Station

SPECIAL EFFECTS: Gravity, Elysium

SOUND MIXING: Gravity, The Grandmaster

ANIMATION: The Croods (no review on this site)