2014 Film Reviews
Interstellar (2014)
Review by-Jarrett Leahy As Earth is ravaged by droughts and extreme climate changes, food shortages reach famine levels. Desperate to ensure the salvation of the human race from extinction, NASA embarks on the most aggressive undertaking in space exploration, project Endurance. Utilizing an inexplicable wormhole located just outside Saturn’s orbit, a group of space explorers […]
Snowpiercer (2014)
Review by-Jarrett Leahy In the year 2014, a group of the planet’s leading scientists, in the hopes of reversing the devastating effects of global warming, release the chemical CW-7 into the planet’s atmosphere, unleashing a cataclysmic ice age that decimates the world’s population. Seventeen years later, only a handful of survivors remain, living on a […]
Ida (2014)
Review by-Jarrett Leahy Raised by nuns after being orphaned during the second World War, Anna is now a novitiate who is just weeks away from taking her final vows. However, before she is allowed to join the order, the Mother Superior informs her she must visit her only living relative, Aunt Wanda. Emotionally aloof, Wanda […]
St. Vincent (2014)
Review by-Jarrett Leahy When Maggie, a recent divorcee, and her 12-year-old son, Oliver, move in next door to Vincent, a drunkard war veteran with a propensity for betting on the horses, Vincent’s inebriated existence gets thrown for a loop. Unaware of Vincent’s proclivity for life’s questionable comforts and desperate for babysitting help, Maggie agrees to […]
Pride (2014)
Review by-Jarrett Leahy Years of tension between the National Union of Mineworkers and U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher boiled over in the spring of 1984. Inspired by their own skirmishes with authorities, a group of gay activists formed the “Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners” program and began raising money in their neighborhood to help […]
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