Once again, the boxes have been opened, the votes have been counted and the falling-outs have been averted. We hope. Anyway, here's what we loved about 2014. And thanks to you, as always, for reading!
Sinead Brennan picks...
Begin Again
For me, Begin Again has it all - a great cast, lovely story, brilliant soundtrack and bucket loads of charm. I love that the relationships in the film feel real and relatable without ever going down the clichéd love-story route and there's enough comedy and fun to keep things fresh. I left the cinema with a warm and fuzzy feeling that I haven't had from a film in a long time and having seen it a few times since, I can vouch for its re-watch value too. An absolute must-see and, in my opinion, one of the most underrated films of the year.
Sinead Brennan's Top Three Movies of 2014
1) Begin Again
2) Nightcrawler
3) The Wolf of Wall Street
John Byrne picks...
The Grand Budapest Hotel
It was a pretty good year for film and it almost hurts to leave out Black Sea (a fine, old-fashioned thriller with a conscience), The LEGO Movie (a genuinely surprising treat) and I've yet to see Interstellar or Boyhood. But what I did see, and what blew me away more than most, was Wes Anderson's mid-European, between-wars tale about the almost Baron Munchausen-like adventures of a hotel concierge and gigolo (Ralph Fiennes at his comic best). You don't have to be an Anderson fan to admire it, but it obviously helps.
John Byrne's Top Three Movies of 2014
1) The Grand Budapest Hotel
2) Gone Girl
3) Nightcrawler
Alan Corr picks...
Under the Skin
Scarlett Johansson delivers a riveting performance as a beautiful, man-eating alien in this lurid arthouse horror movie by Jonathan Glazer, director of Sexy Beast and Birth. She has come to Glasgow, of all places, to prey on men and despatch them in scenes of almost ritualistic murder, but her motives are never made clear in this unsettling, nightmarish film. Glazer brings us through altered states of reality in an unearthly, earthbound trip that slips in and out of the realms of the surreal. It is a deeply troubling but also strangely beautiful piece of work.
Alan Corr's Top Three Movies of 2014
1) Under the Skin
2) The Guest
3) The Imitation Game
Harry Guerin picks...
12 Years a Slave
Steve McQueen's Oscar-winning film is a searing indictment of people at their worst, an inspirational true story and a long overdue honouring of Solomon Northup (the superb Chiwetel Ejiofor), a man the director rightly describes as "a real American hero". In 1841, Northup was kidnapped and sold to plantation owners, one of whom is brilliantly played by Michael Fassbender – the Kerry man should've won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar. A harrowing and heartbreaking watch, but a story you have to see.
Harry Guerin's Top Three Movies of 2014
1) 12 Years a Slave
2) Locke
3) Unbreakable: The Mark Pollock Story
Paddy Kehoe picks...
The Past (Le Passé)
Ahmed (Ali Mosaffa) returns to Paris from Iran to divorce his French wife Marie (Bérénice Bejo). They have been separated for four years; Marie has requested that he come for the legal formalities, and he is intent on ending the relationship on good terms. But Ahmed soon realises that he is in deep, drawn into a domestic conflict involving a new lover and three children, all of whom are suffering. Inexorably, The Past becomes a compulsive drama of secrets and lies. Although director Asghar Farhadi's screenplay is a complex piece of machinery, the story is totally convincing and absorbing with one of the most powerful and moving endings in cinema history.
Paddy Kehoe's Top Three Movies of 2014
1) The Past (Le Passé)
2) Winter Sleep (Kis Uykusu)
3) One Million Dubliners
Taragh Loughrey-Grant picks...
Starred Up
Great title, and it refers not only to the term given to an inmate moving from a juvenile facility to an adult one, but also to the quality of director David Mackenzie's film. We meet Eric (Skins' Jack O'Connell), whose dad is also inside. However, he isn't the reformed role model he needs him to be and Eric is in trouble. Starred Up gets right up into the face of prison life and you can smell the adrenaline. Mackenzie may have chosen leading men with Hollywood looks but the calibre of the performances stays with you a lot longer than the pretty faces.
Taragh Loughrey-Grant's Top Three Movies of 2014
1) Starred Up
2) The LEGO Movie
3) Calvary (a tough call with Paddington so special too)
Sarah McIntyre picks...
The Wolf of Wall Street
Loud, brash, unapologetic and ruthlessly entertaining, The Wolf of Wall Street sees Martin Scorsese in top, scathing form as he tackles the story of real-life fraudster Jordan Belfort. His meteoric rise and fall is recounted in wild, energetic detail, as he and his cronies embark on a lifestyle characterised by mounds of cocaine, endless prostitutes and wads of cash, while trying to keep the Feds off their backs. Leonardo DiCaprio tears up the screen as Belfort in a great black comedy that, surprisingly, justifies its three-hour duration.
Sarah McIntyre's Top Three Movies of 2014
1) The Wolf of Wall Street
2) 12 Years a Slave
3) Frank
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