There are going to be those years in which you’re just at odds with everybody. Sure, I liked Birdman or (How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) just fine. I just didn’t put it in my top 20. Boyhood didn’t make my top 40. At least I didn’t hate any of the Best Picture nominations this year. Seriously, what was up with Amour?
I didn’t even give Interstellar a passing grade. Guardians of the Galaxy? Fine film. Funny. Not here, either.
No, whether you were an Oscar voter or a fanboy, odds are I was least twenty places removed from whatever you had. That’s ok. I can live with being right. Can you live with being wrong?
HONORABLE MENTION
Dammit. I never saw “The Sopranos” and now I miss James Gandolfini, anyway.
F
or some reason, I have no trouble buying into the idea of Russell Crowe as a malevolent demon bounty hunter.
Speaking of malevolent demon bounty hunters … :P
Japanese prison camps in World War II weren’t any fun. We’ve been over this. But I’ve never seen anybody come back for more.
Fighting
institutional evil takes more than just will power, but will power is a pretty good place to start.
More than you’ll ever know.
As the tools of communication improve, is our ability to communicate receding?
Jake Gyllenhaal plays a pure nocturnal cold-blooded insect, preying upon the tragic. This is a chilling character study on the order of 
Taxi Driver. You have to be a little cold-blooded to appreciate this. Yes, frogs are cold-blooded, too.
THE TOP TEN
10. Wish I Was Here
Parenthood can bite
And yet it can compensate
For wishes unmet
This time, I will win
What in the world was that?
Hit the reset, Tom
Cancer taking life
Doesn’t always determine
You can’t have a life
7. St. Vincent
What makes one Holy?
Is it love? Respect? Honor?
Or day at the track?
Breaking Nazi codes
Takes an advanced English mind
Like Sherlock Holmes
5. Calvary
Representation
Of Catholicism is
Not easy these days
4. Gone Girl
The wife isn’t there
Mystery loves company
Betcha Affleck knows
3. Snowpiercer
A train to nowhere
Contains all humanity
It’s revolution
Your favorite blocks
Are having an adventure
Everything? Awesome
Throwback to an age
Where all hotels required
A pet lobby boy
