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| 12 Years a Slave. One of the most talked about and best reviewed films of this festival. The lines were almost impossible long to get in to this film based on the true story of an educated and successful New York 'freeman' who is tricked to head south. Once there, he's sold into slavery and he spends 12 years to fight his way back. A tremendous film, heartfelt, at times hard to watch as you are taken inside the slave life. Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benedict Cumberbatch, Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender and Alfre Woodard. So nice to catch some Alfre again. |
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| Lucky Them. Toni Colette stars as a somewhat aging rock writer in Seattle whose quiet claim to fame was being dumped by a music star who disappears from her and the music scene. This movie was to have been Paul Newman's last movie, but sadly he died before it got made. His wife Joanne Woodward serves as an executive producer. |
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| Dallas Buyers Club. Back in the mid-1980's when AIDS was first ravishing the nation and 'big pharma' was pushing AZT as a wonder drug, people were getting more ill from the side effects from the drug than the disease. Matthew McConaughey plays a homo-phobic man who contracts the disease and winds up opening a 'buyers club' where patients can purchase non-approved drugs that work better than the approved drugs. Really well done and an interesting subject. |
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| Enough Said. It was really hard to see James Gandolfini up on the big screen this afternoon. Its just sad that he's gone. Gotta say, this is a really, really nice movie. Julia Louis Dreyfus is simply charming as a divorced mom with a kids leaving for college who meets a man going through the same thing and a romance ensues (with complications of course). |
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