242 - Pride

This week’s episode is one we have promised for some time: 2014′s Pride. The film tells the true story of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, a queer activist group that partnered with a Welsh town in the 1980s during the mining strike under Thatcher’s rule. Following the lives of both the straight townsfolk and the queer Londoners, the film paints a portrait of queerness, allyship, and activism that rings true today while also satisfying on a crowd-pleasing level. After launching at Cannes’ Directors Fortnight and winning the Queer Palm, the film launched in the fall of 2014 to some ardent critical fans, but didn’t cross the Oscar finish line.

This episode, we talk about the theatre career of director Matthew Warchus and the film’s comforts in this current tumultuous moment for queer people. We also talk about the film’s tremendous ensemble headlined by Imelda Staunton and Bill Nighy, gay infighting, and unofficial THOB mascot Men Trussler.

Topics also include the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, Monica Bellucci bluntly listing director names, and the concept of Festival Regret.

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Cine: Pride (2014)

“La vida es lo que te ocurre mientras estás ocupado haciendo otros planes“. Esta certera definición de John Lennon se aplica a Joe (George Mackay), un joven que acaba de cumplir veinte años y se cruza en una Marcha del Orgullo Gay en 1984 mientras iba camino a la Universidad a sus clases de Hotelería. El destino le tiene preparada una sorpresa cuando se une a LGSM (Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners), una organización surgida para ayudar monetariamente a los mineros por la compleja y extensa huelga desarrollada por entonces en Gran Bretaña. 

Acostumbrados a ser menospreciados, un día se topan con la sorpresa de que su generosidad es aceptada en una comunidad minera de Gales y que uno de esos mineros, Dai (Paddy Considine), irá en persona a agradecerles y, lo que es aún más inédito, a invitarles a visitar Onllwyn. Y allí van Mark Ashton (Ben Schnetzer), Mike (Joseph Gilgun), Jonathan Blake (segunda persona diagnosticada en Reino Unido con el virus de HIV, interpretada por Dominic West), Gethin Roberts (Andrew Scott), Jeff Cole (Freddie Fox), Reggie Blennerhassett (Chris Overton), Ray Aller, (Joshua Hill) y Faye Marsay (Steph), con todos los temores a flor de piel porque la experiencia les despierta todas las alarmas. Claro que se encuentran con miradas de desconfianza y hasta de desprecio, pero la aventura les resulta enriquecedora: hallan aceptación e incluso son escuchados cuando son necesarias las cuestiones legales a la hora de enfrentarse a los abusos policiales. 

Dirigida por Matthew Warchus y basada en una historia real, todo está aquí muy bien dosificado: el retrato de la militancia LGTBQ de principios de los ochenta, la intensa lucha de los mineros y de sus familias, la precaución por un para nada improbable ataque homófobo, la amenaza latente del sida y, en especial, el contraste entre ambos mundos, cargado de inquietudes, pero también de maravillosos momentos de ternura mutua, camaradería y humor del bueno. Regalo de los protagonistas ya mencionados, pero también de un reparto fantástico que incluye a Imelda Staunton (la deliciosa Hefina Headon), Jessica Gunning (Siân James), Lisa Palfrey (Maureen Barry), Liz White (Margaret Donovan), Nia Gwynne (Gail Pritchard), Menna Trussler (Gwen), Bill Nighy (Cliff Barry) y Russell Tovey (Tim), entre otros talentos. Imprescindible es poco.

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BODY BEAUTIFUL Beryl and her friends work in a Japanese factory in Wales. Beryl (Menna Trussler) has a weight problem and macho supervisor, Vince (Rob Brydon), is the bane of her life. But soon the time comes to get even. Voices: Menna Trussler, Robert Brydon, Gillian Elisa Thomas, Erica Eirian, Catrin Llwyd, Richard Goodfield. Animation: Joanna Quinn Script: Les Mills Music: Paul Hornsby Sound:…

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Pride (2014) | Dir. Matthew Warchus

One Mann's Movies Film Review: Pride (2014)

One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Pride (2014)

Probably few things have divided the British people more in the last forty years than Margaret Thatcher’s time as Conservative leader.  The pivot point for that hatred/worship was the protracted dispute with the National Union of Mineworkers in 1984/85.  Arthur Scargill led the miners in a fight to the death against pit closures and their way of life;  Maggie Thatcher led the government and…

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Torchwood: The Death of Captain Jack

Latest Review: Writer: David Llewellyn Director: Scott Handcock Featuring: John Barrowman, James Marsters, Eve Myles, Gareth David-Lloyd, Kai Owen, Tom Price, Samuel Barnett, Rowena Cooper Big Finish Release (United Kingdom) Running Time: 1 hour Released by Big Finish Productions - March 2018 Order from Amazon UK After two full seasons of monthly releases set in the lives of Cardiff's least covert secret agents, each entry packed with as much nostalgia as world-building, not to mention a wealth of box-sets taking place in the eponymous organisation's past, present and future, some might reasonably wonder just where Big Finish can take Torchwood next - at least without fulfilling the rule of diminishing returns. To date, we've spent hours in the company of not only every member of the Season One-Two team but also Yvonne Hartman, Suzie Costello, Torchwood America's Charlie's Angels-esque terrific trio, Rhys Williams, Sergeant Andy Davidson and undercover recruits in World War Two. Who else could the studio possibly hope to focus on, then, sans perhaps the elderly woman bemoaning "bloody Torchwood" in the Season Two premiere, "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang"? The answer, coincidentally enough, lies in that exact same episode, albeit not in the form of Menna Trussler's brilliantly non-plussed Elspeth Morgan, but instead in the form of another oft-forgotten veteran of the show's televised tenure: Captain John Hart. Yes, everyone's other favourite Time Agent has returned for another round on the blood-soaked carousel in The Death of Captain Jack, a disorientating rollercoaster of a season premiere which delivers all of the raunchy setpieces, deliciously macabre humour, Steven Moffat-level time-travel paradoxes and further raunchy setpieces fans could possibly hope for. Every work of fiction has its flaws, of course, and we'll get to Death's blemishes later, but if nothing else, there's never been a Torchwood audio production quite like this one. To quote Amy Pond, okay kids - this is where it gets complicated. Unlike most of these monthly vignettes, Death's place in its source material's continuity starts out sketchy and doesn't become much clearer the further we move through its running time. Suffice to say that any long-running franchise devotees will have their work cut out trying to ascertain quite when the narrative - or at least its framing device, which essentially serves as the crux of proceedings - occurs in relation to John and Jack's fractured romantic / anarchistic relationship across time and space, since there aren't many direct references to on-screen encounters between the pair such as "Kiss Kiss" or Season Two finale "Exit Wounds". What we do know, however, is that the former unashamed megalomaniac decides to finally bring their competition to best one another to an explosive end, causing a wealth of paradoxes destabilising enough to leave Jack on the brink of a permanent demise and John as the King of England. If that sounds like a recipe for a glorious hour of unhinged science-fiction hysteria, then take comfort in the knowledge that your ears are working perfectly. If anything, the play's wright David Llewellyn takes those expectations and extrapolates them tenfold, his script gleefully embracing the explosive carnage that its two Time Agent protagonists bring to anyone caught - figuratively or often literally - between them, with the pair's at times lust-driven, at times hopelessly self-destructive relationship an empowering wildcard that keeps the hour refreshingly unpredictable. Whether he's having John compare Torchwood Three to Scooby Doo "without the cartoon dog or the lesbian" or depicting fan favourite characters like Ianto Jones or Rowena Cooper's Queen Victoria in hilariously risque new lights, Llewellyn takes evident delight in the audio range's producer, James Goss, giving him free reign to steer many of the show's core tenets totally off the rails with a chaotic, constantly expectation-subverting romp that can't fail to keep even the most emotionally apathetic listener entertained. Sure, we're left in almost no doubt that the events depicted here can't come to affect future Torchwood storylines, but who cares when the results are such visceral fun to consume through our earlobes? That wouldn't necessarily have been the case, though, without two such accomplished lead performers at Death's helm. Enter John Barrowman and long overdue returnee James Marsters, both of whom wholeheartedly embrace the opportunity to deliver a psychologically warped comedy-drama where the only rule is that there are no rules. In many ways Barrowman's gifted with the chance to play two roles - the good Captain whom we know and love as well as the aged soul who lies before John on seemingly the final day in their centuries-spanning conflict - and, naturally, does a stellar job on both fronts, as intoxicatingly charismatic and complacent ever in the former guise while the most vulnerable and morally crushed that we've seen him since Miracle Day in the latter. As for Mr. Masters, whereas some of Doctor Who and Torchwood's past cast members needed time to adjust to portraying their characters in audio form, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Marvel's Runaways star takes to Big Finish like a devilishly handsome duck to the Time Vortex's waters, his constant barrage of witty retorts, pop culture references, beguiling pick-up lines and pre-murder zingers voiced with the kind of unsettling enthusiasm that only an actor of his calibre can truly muster. Much as Big Finish are rightly striving to entice series regulars like Eve Myles and Burn Gorman to find time amidst their hectic schedules to record further Torchwood plays, this reviewer would suggest that the studio makes Masters another major priority in this regard whenever the right script and the necessary gap in his own calendar arise. So, with all of these glowing remarks, how could we possibly smell a fault in the framework of this undoubtedly successful new chapter for the only team ready for that key moment when "everything changes"? Well, kindly juxtapose that iconic quote from the show's opening sequence with our comments above and you'll ideally start to notice that despite subverting many of the show's tropes, The Death of Captain Jack does incorporate a heck of a lot of previously explored character dynamics, cameos from familiar faces, What If paradoxes and the like which we've seen done to death - many times over in Jack's eternal case - countless times before on Torchwood and elsewhere in the so-called Whoniverse (though feel free to substitute this term with any other epithets for the wider franchise that you see fit). Indeed, Llewellyn, Goss, and company could easily have gotten away with rebranding this release as Torchwood: Greatest Hits, since rather than taking us into any particularly new territory that no-one could have seen coming, the intention seems to have been to simply spend more time with the admittedly electric Jack-John pairing which only got 2 full episodes in which to shine during 2008's Season Two. That's a noble gesture to fans clamoring for further such antics to be sure but does inevitably result in a storyline which - for all its rib-tickling one-liners - will rarely catch veteran fans off-guard. That, in turn, plays into the matter of continuity which we discussed briefly earlier when summarizing Death's basic premise. On a superficial level, to call out the script for refusing to explicitly confirm whereabouts in Jack and John's timelines these events take place - a tricky business to discuss fully in this review without spoiling the exact nature of certain happenings we see play out here - may seem a prime example of nitpicking, but given that we last witnessed Masters' character wanting to understand Jack's passionate zest for Earthbound life by exploring the planet himself, having his return to his tricksome ways this time around explained by the outcome of those travels might've afforded an additional layer of depth to his character arc as well as fuel for future storylines at Big Finish. Does John's manipulative, self-serving outlook on life inevitably mean that he'll never remain content with a universe out for anyone's gain but his? Is his psyche comparable to Missy's in "Death in Heaven", whereby the pair both "wanted their friends back" no matter how devastating the circumstances? Factoring questions like these into Death just might have made the key difference between the latest Torchwood range outing coming off as a satisfying or game-changing listen. Anyway, enough grimacing for the time being - to do so for longer than necessary would be to stray far from the central fact of the matter. Even if The Death of Captain Jack doesn't necessarily start 'Season Three' of Big Finish's monthly Torchwood releases with quite the same intriguing arc threads as The Conspiracy did in 2015 or never-before-seen crossover hijinks between Jack and Queen Victoria (a total newcomer to the show) as The Victorian Age did the following year, its raw appeal as a tour de force in time-bending, romantically charged and at times unexpectedly violent storytelling can't possibly be denied. Anyone who's long craved a reunion between the only two surviving Time Agents depicted in Doctor Who and its spin-offs will almost certainly have a whale of a time with Death between its jet-black comedy, its protagonists' never-ending duel of wits and sexual prowess and its scribe's dedication to uprooting Torchwood tropes by the dozen at every turn with hilarious results. Everything mightn't change here, then, but everything's at least looking up in terms of the studio's ability to keep producing memorable monthly outings for Harkness and company. http://reviews.doctorwhonews.net/2018/04/torchwood_the_death_of_captain_jack.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr

2014 Movie Awards

Best Picture: Birdman Boyhood Mommy Nightcrawler Whiplash HONORABLE MENTION: Wild, Dear White People, Foxcatcher, Guardians of the Galaxy, Two Days One Night, Obvious Child, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Gone Girl, Edge of Tomorrow, Snowpiercer, Under the Skin Best Director: Damien Chazelle, Whiplash Xavier Dolan, Mommy Dan Gilroy, Nightcrawler Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Birdman Richard Linklater, Boyhood HONORABLE MENTION: Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne, Two Days One Night; David Fincher, Gone Girl; Jonathan Glazer, Under the Skin; James Gunn, Guardians of the Galaxy; Bong Joon-ho, Snowpiercer; Doug Liman, Edge of Tomorrow; Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher; Gillian Robespierre, Obvious Child; Anthony Russo & Joe Russo, Captain America: The Winter Soldier; Justin Simien, Dear White People; Jean-Marc Vallee, Wild Best Actor: Jake Gyllenhaal, Nightcrawler Oscar Isaac, A Most Violent Year Michael Keaton, Birdman Channing Tatum, Foxcatcher Miles Teller, Whiplash HONORABLE MENTION: Steve Carell, Foxcatcher; Ellar Coltrane, Boyhood; Ansel Elgort, The Fault in Our Stars; Chris Evans, Snowpiercer; Ralph Fiennes, The Grand Budapest Hotel; Jake Gyllenhaal, Enemy; John Lithgow, Love Is Strange; Alfred Molina, Love Is Strange; Dave Oyelowo, Selma; Joaquin Phoenix, Inherent Vice; Antoine-Olivier Pilon, Mommy; Chris Pratt, Guardians of the Galaxy; Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything; Tony Revolori, The Grand Budapest Hotel; Tyler James Williams, Dear White People Best Actress: Marion Cotillard, Two Days, One Night Anne Dorval, Mommy Jenny Slate, Obvious Child Tessa Thompson, Dear White People Reese Witherspoon, Wild HONORABLE MENTION: Jennifer Aniston, Cake; Emily Blunt, Edge of Tomorrow; Emily Blunt, Into the Woods; Jessica Chastain, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby; Marion Cotillard, The Immigrant; Essie Davis, The Babadook; Scarlett Johansson, Under the Skin; Lisa Loven Kongsli, Force Majeure; Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Beyond the Lights; Julianne Moore, Still Alice; Elisabeth Moss, The One I Love; Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl; Tilda Swinton, Only Lovers Left Alive; Agata Trzebuchowska, Ida; Shailene Woodley, The Fault in Our Stars Best Supporting Actor: Riz Ahmed, Nightcrawler Ethan Hawke, Boyhood Edward Norton, Birdman Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher J.K. Simmons, Whiplash HONORABLE MENTION: Brandon P. Bell, Dear White People; Jamie Bell, Snowpiercer; Josh Brolin, Inherent Vice; Albert Brooks, A Most Violent Year; Matt Damon, Interstellar; Kristofer Hivju, Force Majeure; Eyles Gabel, A Most Violent Year; Ed Harris, Snowpiercer; Logan Lerman, Fury; Jonathan Pryce, Listen Up Phillip Best Supporting Actress: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood Suzanne Clement, Mommy Elisabeth Moss, Listen Up Phillip Rene Russo, Nightcrawler Emma Stone, Birdman HONORABLE MENTION: Rose Byrne, Neighbors; Jessica Chastain, A Most Violent Year; Carrie Coon, Gone Girl; Kim Dickens, Gone Girl; Polly Draper, Obvious Child; Minnie Driver, Beyond the Lights; Carmen Ejogo, Selma; Anna Kendrick, Into the Woods; Agata Kulesza, Ida; Teyonah Parris, Dear White People; Kristen Stewart, Still Alice; Meryl Streep, Into the Woods; Tilda Swinton, Snowpiercer; Naomi Watts, Birdman Best Original Screenplay: Birdman -Armando Bo, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., Nicolas Giacobone & Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Boyhood - Richard Linklater Dear White People - Justin Simien Mommy - Xavier Dolan Nightcrawler - Dan Gilroy HONORABLE MENTION: The Babadook, Beyond the Lights, Force Majeure, Foxcatcher, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Ida, The Lego Movie, Listen Up Phillip, Love Is Strange, A Most Violent Year, Two Days One Night Best Adapted Screenplay: Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn Guardians of the Galaxy - James Gunn & Nicole Perlman Obvious Child - Elisabeth Holm, Karen Maine & Gillian Robespierre Whiplash - Damien Chazelle Wild - Nick Hornby HONORABLE MENTION: Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Edge of Tomorrow, The Fault in Our Stars, Inherent Vice, Into the Woods, Snowpiercer, Still Alice, 22 Jump Street, Under the Skin Best Ensemble: Birdman Dear White People Gone Girl The Grand Budapest Hotel Love Is Strange HONORABLE MENTION: Beyond the Lights, Boyhood, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Force Majeure, Foxcatcher, Fury, Guardians of the Galaxy, Inherent Vice, Interstellar, Jersey Boys, The Lego Movie, Mommy, A Most Violent Year, Pride, Selma, Snowpiercer, Wild Best Limited Performance - Male: Timur Magomedgadzhiev, Two Days, One Night Tom McTigue, Boyhood Adam Pearson, Under the Skin Henry G. Sanders, Selma Lakeith Stanfield, Selma HONORABLE MENTION: Mike Birbiglia, The Fault in Our Stars; Cliff De Young, Wild; Martin Donovan, Inherent Vice; Billy Magnussen, Into the Woods; Peter McRobbie, Inherent Vice; Bill Murray, The Grand Budapest Hotel; Jeremy Shamos, Birdman; Russell Tovey, Pride; Michael K. Williams, Inherent Vice; Jeffrey Wright, Only Lovers Left Alive Best Limited Performance - Female: Jeannie Berlin, Inherent Vice Lindsay Duncan, Birdman Michele Lituac, Mommy Alison Pill, Snowpiercer Tilda Swinton, The Grand Budapest Hotel HONORABLE MENTION: Connie Britton, This Is Where I Leave You; Ellen Burstyn, Interstellar; Hong Chau, Inherent Vice; Cindy Cheung, Obvious Child; Leslie Jones, Top Five; Jena Malone, Inherent Vice; Donna Mitchell, St. Vincent; Vanessa Redgrave, Foxcatcher; Isabella Rossellini, Enemy; Lorraine Toussaint, Selma; Menna Trussler, Pride; Oprah Winfrey, Selma Breakthrough Performance: Ellar Coltrane, Boyhood Ansel Elgort, The Fault in Our Stars Antoine-Olivier Pilon, Mommy Tony Revolori, The Grand Budapest Hotel Agata Trzebuchowska, Ida HONORABLE MENTION: Lilla Crawford, Into the Woods; Pierre Deladonchamps, Stranger by the Lake; Lisa Loven Kongsli, Force Majeure; Johannes Bah Kuhnke, Force Majeure; George MacKay, Pride; Jack O’Connell, Unbroken; Ben Schnetzer, Pride; Noah Wiseman, The Babadook Best Film Editing: Birdman - Douglas Crise & Stephen Mirrione Boyhood - Sandra Adair Edge of Tomorrow - James Herbert & Laura Jennings Nightcrawler - John Gilroy Whiplash - Tom Cross HONORABLE MENTION: Beyond the Lights, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Dear White People, Foxcatcher, Gone Girl, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Guardians of the Galaxy, Last Days in Vietnam, Life Itself, Mommy, Obvious Child, The Overnighters, Snowpiercer, 22 Jump Street, Under the Skin, Wild Best Cinematography: Birdman - Emmanuel Lubezki Foxcatcher - Greig Fraser Nightcrawler - Robert Elswit Under the Skin - Daniel Landin Whiplash - Sharone Meir HONORABLE MENTION: Boyhood, Edge of Tomorrow, Gone Girl, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Ida, The Immigrant, Inherent Vice, Interstellar, Mommy, A Most Violent Year, Selma, Snowpiercer, Wild Best Original Score: Birdman - Antonio Sanchez Gone Girl - Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross The Grand Budapest Hotel - Alexandre Desplat Nightcrawler - James Newton Howard Under the Skin - Mica Levi HONORABLE MENTION: The Babadook, The Boxtrolls, Edge of Tomorrow, Fury, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Inherent Vice, Interstellar, The Lego Movie, A Most Violent Year, The One I Love, The Theory of Everything, Whiplash Best Original Song: Begin Again - "Lost Stars" - Gregg Alexander & Danielle Brisebois Beyond the Lights - "Blackbird" - Terius Nash Divergent - "Beating Heart" - Ellie Goulding & Joe Janiak The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 - "Yellow Flicker Beat" - Joel Little & Ella Yelich-O'Connor Selma - "Glory" - Common & John Legend HONORABLE MENTION: Begin Again - "Like a Fool"; Begin Again - "Tell Me If You Wanna Go Home"; Beyond the Lights - "Grateful"; Beyond the Lights - "Masterpiece"; Big Hero 6 - "Immortals"; The Boxtrolls - "The Boxtrolls Song"; Boyhood - "Split the Difference"; The Fault in Our Stars - "All of the Stars"; The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 - "The Hanging Tree"; The Lego Movie - "Everything Is Awesome"; Muppets Most Wanted - "The Big House"; Muppets Most Wanted - "We're Doing a Sequel" Best Art Direction: Birdman - George DeTitta Jr. & Kevin Thompson Gone Girl - Donald Graham Burt & Douglas A. Mowat The Grand Budapest Hotel - Anna Pinnock & Adam Stockhausen Interstellar - Nathan Crowley & Gary Fettis Snowpiercer - Beata Brendtnerova & Ondrej Nekvasil HONORABLE MENTION: The Babadook, Big Eyes, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Dear White People, Divergent, Edge of Tomorrow, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, The Imitation Game, Inherent Vice, Into the Woods, Jersey Boys, A Most Violent Year, Selma, X-Men: Days of Future Past Best Costume Design: Captain America: The Winter Soldier - Judianna Makovsky The Grand Budapest Hotel - Milena Canonero Guardians of the Galaxy - Alexandra Byrne Into the Woods - Colleen Atwood Selma - Ruth E. Carter HONORABLE MENTION: The Babadook, Beyond the Lights, Birdman, Divergent, Edge of Tomorrow, Gone Girl, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, Ida, The Imitation Game, Inherent Vice, Interstellar, Jersey Boys, A Most Violent Year, Only Lovers Left Alive, Pride, Snowpiercer, X-Men: Days of Future Past Best Makeup: Beyond the Lights The Grand Budapest Hotel Guardians of the Galaxy Snowpiercer X-Men: Days of Future Past HONORABLE MENTION: Birdman, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Edge of Tomorrow, Foxcatcher, Fury, Gone Girl, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, Inherent Vice, Into the Woods, Jersey Boys, Only Lovers Left Alive, Pride, Selma, The Theory of Everything Best Sound Mixing: Birdman Captain America: The Winter Soldier Guardians of the Galaxy Under the Skin Whiplash HONORABLE MENTION: Begin Again, Boyhood, Edge of Tomorrow, Gone Girl, The Grand Budapest Hotel, How to Train Your Dragon 2, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, Inherent Vice, Interstellar, Into the Woods, Jersey Boys, The Lego Movie, Mommy, Nightcrawler, Snowpiercer, 22 Jump Street, Wild, X-Men: Days of Future Past Best Sound Editing: Birdman Captain America: The Winter Soldier Edge of Tomorrow Snowpiercer Whiplash HONORABLE MENTION: American Sniper, Big Hero 6, Divergent, Fury, Gone Girl, Guardians of the Galaxy, How to Train Your Dragon 2, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, Interstellar, The Lego Movie, 22 Jump Street, Under the Skin, X-Men: Days of Future Past Best Visual Effects: Captain America: The Winter Soldier Edge of Tomorrow Guardians of the Galaxy The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 Under the Skin HONORABLE MENTION: American Sniper, Birdman, Divergent, Interstellar, Maleficent, Snowpiercer, 22 Jump Street, Unbroken, X-Men: Days of Future Past Best Foreign Film: Force Majeure - Ruben Ostlund Ida - Pawl Palikowski Mommy - Xavier Dolan Stranger by the Lake - Alain Guiraudie Two Days, One Night - Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne HONORABLE MENTION: N/A Best Documentary: Art and Craft - Sam Cullen & Jennifer Grausman Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me - Chiemi Karasawa Last Days in Vietnam - Rory Kennedy Life Itself - Steve James The Overnighters - Jesse Moss Honorable Mention: CITIZENFOUR, Finding Vivian Maier, Happy Valley, I Am Divine Best Animated Film: Big Hero 6 - Don Hall & Chris Williams The Boxtrolls - Graham Annable & Anthony Stacchi Ernest & Celestine - Stephane Aubier, Vincent Patar & Benjamin Renner How to Train Your Dragon 2 - Dean DeBlois The Lego Movie - Phil Lord & Chris Miller HONORABLE MENTION: N/A Every 2014 Film I've Seen: Ranked

"Here she comes, Menna Trussler. What an entrance, and boy does she know how to do it. Marlene Dietrich couldn't have worked it out better, look at that. Amazing! Perfect speed, I love the tea towel...just masterly. She picks up the phone as though she's not entirely sure what it is." - Pride commentary (Matthew Warchus & Stephen Beresford)

I know it’s really random, but I just found out that the woman who plays Gwen in Pride (Menna Trussler) was on one Torchwood episode and just seeing her made me irrationally happy.

Pride - Gwen being amazing

"You got a sweetheart, have you, love?"

"I'm a gobby, Northern lesbian, Gwen. I tend to scare them off."

"Look, that's my William. Forty-four years I had him with me, and I wish you as many with someone someday, and as happy."