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Sian’s Top 10 for 2014!
2014 was a good year for movies in my book. While there were a few quality flicks that ‘got away’ (which I’ll no doubt get around to watching on DVD in 2015), of the substantial list of movies I did see, these make my personal 2014 Top 10. For more info on each flick, click on the title to be magically whisked away by hyperlink (in a new window of course! Gotta s...
Wartime Code Breakers
THE IMITATION GAME is a new thriller about British mathematician Alan Turing. Historically, he is best known for cracking the German Enigma code and helping the Allies win the War. Turing designed the theoretical framework for the first modern computers. He was a genius whose work had world-wide impact, yet in the 1950s he was not a celebrated figure, but rather a broken man who was per...
Miyavi – Unbroken
Academy Award® winner Angelina Jolie directs and produces Unbroken, an epic drama that follows the incredible life of Olympian and war hero Louis “Louie” Zamperini (Jack O’Connell) who, along with two other crewmen, survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII—only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp. We had the chance to chat to MIYAVI wh...
Most Pirated Movies of 2014!
Movie piracy is a touchy subject. Some claim it’s a viewer’s right to share media, or that their downloads hardly affect the industry as they ‘only download the movies they kinda want to see and still pay for the ones they really want to watch’. Others blame piracy for a slow but sure demise of the film industry and label it as blatant stealing. Whatever your th...
2014 Box Office Champions – You May be Offended!
The results are in! Minions have been frantically working the calculators to order the 2014 films that scored the most cha-ching! Believe me, you’ll be SHOCKED at some of the results…you may even lose your faith in humanity at the sight of a few of them! The top flicks on the Worldwide Box Office Gross list for 2014 are… #15 THE LEGO MOVIE &nd...
St. Vincent Trailer
A young boy whose parents just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic, war veteran who lives next door.
The Water Diviner Trailer
Four years after the Battle of Gallipoli, Australian farmer Joshua Connor travels to Turkey to find his three sons, who never returned home from the war. When he arrives in Istanbul, he meets others who have also suffered losses: hotelier Ayshe and her son, Orhan, who befriends Connor; and Major Hasan, a Turkish officer who fought against Connor’s sons and now may be their father’s onl...
Big Hero 6 Trailer
The special bond that develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax, and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes.
Murray Christmas
Bill Murray fans rejoice for ’tis the season to see his new feature. The Luna Outdoor will screen ST VINCENT at 8.15pm every night from Boxing Day (December 26th) until the final night of 2014, Wednesday December 31st. Enjoy writer director Theodore Melfi’s first feature in the cool of a Leederville evening. See Murray play Vincent, the drunken, gambling, Vietnam War ve...
Star Trek about to get Fast and Furious with new Director
It wasn’t long ago that it was announced Roberto Orci was no longer directing Star Trek 3, and just as quickly it’s being reported that Justin Lin is now directing! For those not familiar with Lin’s recent films, he found success reinvigorating the Fast and the Furious franchise to spectacular box office rewards. Taking over from the Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drive, Lin went on...
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Trailer
Immediately after the events of The Desolation of Smaug, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend Erebor’s mountain of treasure from others who claim it: the men of the ruined Laketown and the elves of Mirkwood. Meanwhile an army of Orcs led by Azog the Defiler is marching on Erebor, fueled by the rise of the dark lord Sauron. Dwarves, elves and men must unite, and the hope for Middle-Earth falls...
Hobbit Finale Dominates Box Office!
While we wait patiently for its Boxing Day release, THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES dominates the global box office, already raking in a whopping $173,000,000 worldwide. While Bilbo and company first aired their finale in 30+ countries over a week ago, The States had to wait until this weekend to conclude the trilogy. The flick has been on American screens for a m...