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- 1) “12 Years a Slave” (R) Drama/Bio. 134 minutes Director: Steve McQueen. Powerful, gritty, disturbing true story of a free Black, Solomon Northup, captured and sold to slavery for 12 years. Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Solomon Northup.
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- 2) “Dallas Buyers Club” (R) Drama/Bio 117 minutes. Director:Jean Marc Valler. One man”'s struggle with HIV and his campaign to get better drugs for him and others affected against great opposition from the government officials.
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- 3) “Gravity” (PC13) Sci Fi 90 minutes A space accident causes Sandra Bullock”'s character Dr. Ryan Stone to literally hang in the balance.
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- 4) “The Act of Killing” (R) Doc. Director: Anonymous, Christine Cynn. Frightening candid documentary about some of the men who staged a takeover of the Indonesian government in 1965 under the guise the country had been controlled by the Communists.
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- 5) “Nebraska” (R) Drama. Drama. Director: Alexander Payne. In Black and White. Elderly gentleman Woody Grant (Bruce Dern) from Billings, Montana, is convinced he”'s won a million dollars in a sweepstakes contest. Stubborn but determined to drive to Nebraska to “claim” his “prize” convinces his younger son to drive him there.
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- 6) “Fruitvale Station” (R) Drama/Bio 90 minutes. Director: Ryan Coogler. Mr. Coogler”'s debut film based on a true story of Oscar Grant (Micheal B.Jordan), a young African American, shot and killed by a Transit police officer.
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- 7) “Wadjda” (PG) Drama/ Foreign Director: Haifan Al-Mansour. Languages: Arabic in English subtitles. Country: Saudi Arabia/Germany. The first full-featured film by a Saudi Arabian woman. A young girl wants a bicycle discouraged by her society for a girl to have a bike.
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- 8) “American Hustle” (R) Comedy/Drama 138 minutes. Director: David O. Russell. The best of cons try to con a New Jersey mayor.
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- 9) “Mandela: A Long Walk to Freedom” (PG-13) Drama/Bio 139 minutes. Director: Justin Chadwick. Nelson Mandela”'s life before and after his imprisonment for 27 years.
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- 10) “Philomena” (R) Drama 98 minutes Director: Stephen Frears. Philomena Lee (Judi Dench) has a son out-of-wedlock taken away from her and given over for adoption. She goes out of Martin Sixsmith (Steve Coogan) eventually going to America.
