The Brown Note Movie Review

What it says on the tin - my round up of my favorite and least favorite films of 2014.

Damien Chazelle's major debut is so thunderously exciting you almost forget the dreadful La La Land ever existed. The brilliant JK Simmons trades drumsticks with a nearly as great Miles Teller.

The occasionally complex and nuanced direction of Clint Eastwood gives way to a more black and white Spielberg pallet in this Bradley Cooper starring biopic.

Peter Jackson's terribly misguided attempt at stretching the tiny Hobbit novel across seven hours trundles unsatisfying to an end.

Alejandro Inarritu's art-house Oscar hoover reboots a terrific Michael Keaton's career.

Brilliant and essential YouTube hosted documentary on the modern epidemic of obesity and its link to sugar.

Terrifically wild and subversive no budget black comedy debut from director E.L.Katz, based literally on the paradigm of what would you do for a thousand bucks.

More interesting and complex than the cartoon Saving Private Ryan but still more trite than profound, an excellent Brad Pitt anchors the sometimes excellent director David Ayer's tank based war film.

Barely passable but slightly interesting young adult hokum.

One of the best (and truest) Sci-Fi films of the century so far. Aussie/German directors The Spierig Brothers open with one of cinemas greatest shaggy dog stories and it gets even better from there. A stunning, awards worthy Sarah Snook stars opposite Ethan Hawke.