Film (2014)
Based on the musical by
Stephen Sondheim
and James Lapine
Directed by Rob Marshall
A superb rendition of the celebrated Sondheim musical based on the unexpected interactions of traditional fairy tale characters.
Big Eyes
Film (2014)
Directed by Tim Burton
With Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz
A film based on the actual lives and artistic careers of Walter and Margaret Keane, bizarrely intertwined with one another.
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Film (2014)
Directed by Peter Jackson
Based on the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien
The end of the three part film epic blown up out of the short fantasy classic.
The Imitation Game
Film (2014)
Directed by Morten Tyldum
With Benedict Cumberbatch,
Keira Knightley
A very well done, though dramatically liberalized, account of Alan Turing and the Enigma Project – which sought to decode Nazi communications during the Second World War – and the associated emergence of Turing’s invention, the first modern computer.
Wild
Film (2014)
Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée
Screenplay by Nick Hornby
Based on the memoir
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (2012)
by Cheryl Strayed
With Reese Witherspoon,
Laura Dern
A film based on Cheryl Strayed’s memoir about hiking the 1100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail solo in 1995.