This weekend two award-winning films will be released alongside a number of independent films. Among those are "A Most Violent Year" and "The Immigrant."
This week a number of small films will be released for Super Bowl XLIX weekend. The Super Bowl is known as one of the weakest weekends of the year as most audiences are home watching the big football game. Latin Post takes a look at the biggest movies out in theaters for Super Bowl 2015 Weekend
Guatemalan award-winning movie star Oscar Isaac talks to Latin Post in an exclusive interview about 'A Most Violent Year,' 'Star Wars,' 'X-Men' and the one role he did that portrays Latin American men in a new light.
Among the many holdovers at the box office include "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies," "Unbroken" and "Into the Woods", but among those movies, Guatemalan star Oscar Isaac's buzzed-about movie "A Most Violent Year" hits theaters this weekend.
Francisco Salazar, entertainment writer, presents his Top Ten films of the year. After 365 days, the 2014 calendar year comes to an end and with it many a number of great films.
More than a cautionary tale, "A Most Violent Year" almost condemns the impossibility of ideals such as the heroic American Dream. While the film shows that this dream is attainable, it lambasts any notion that it can be achieved without making certain concessions. And this is where this film, which takes many cues from Francis Ford Coppolla's great "Godfather" films, connects itself most fully with those two great films. To fulfill the American Dream, compromises must be made. And these aren't always the ones we feel most comfortable making.
The National Board of Review has picked "A Most Violent Year" as the "Best Film of 2014." J.C. Chandor's crime drama, which tells the story of some thuggish New Jersey-New York oil cartels, was seen as an underdog in the category, which is decided by the more than one hundred members of the New York-based board.
With the start of December awards, madness began with three major organizations handing out Best Picture awards. Additionally, the Academy Awards announced the 15 shortlisted documentaries that will compete for a nomination.
The National Board of Review announced its annual awards Tuesday and gave "A Most Violent Year" the Best Picture of the year, while the film's lead actor, Guatemalan-born Oscar Isaac, won Best Actor.
The Best Picture category has always been one of the most predictable categories as the precursor awards dictate what the Academy will do when picking its top films of the year. However the one thing that is unpredictable is how many films will be nominated in the category. Since the Academy decided to allow five to 10 films, it has been hard to guess how many films will be nominated for Best Picture.
