The best movies of 2014 are an eclectic bunch, featuring among them a talking raccoon, a teenager stuck in purgatory, a quartet of finger-snapping singers, talking toys, mysterious murders, alien invasions, and enough mutants and superheroes to fill a galaxy. One trait they share? They’re all worth watching again and again.
The Oscars are all about the movies, but it’s usually a good night for book lovers too. This year, for example, four of the nine nominees for Best Picture are adaptations of books—The Wolf of Wall Street, 12 Years a Slave, Captain Phillips (A Captain’s Duty), and Philomena (The Lost Child of Philomena Lee). Of course, it […]