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Chris’s Top 10’s of 2014

Top 10 Movies of 2014

1) Guardians of the Galaxy

2) Blue Ruin

3) Nightcrawler

4) Predestination

5) Interstellar

6) Gone Girl

7) The Grand Budapest Hotel

8) Boyhood

9) Edge of Tomorrow

10) The Salvation

Honorable Mentions

The Skeleton Twins The Young Ones Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Lego Movie St. Vincent The Captive Tammy Snowpiercer They Came Together The Rover

Worst Movie of the Year Dracula Untold

Top 10 TV Shows of 2014

1) Game of Thrones

2) Louie

3) Sons of Anarchy

4) Broadchurch

5) Parks and Recreation

6) American Dad

7) Fargo

8) The Walking Dead

9) True Detective

10) Archer

Honorable Mentions

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Movie Title Breakup

BMEotD #109 Source Code

Director Duncan Jones's (none other than David Bowie's Son,) second feature, Source Code, Is a mind bending, pseudo-time travel action thriller. Jake Gyllenhaal plays Colter Stevens,  a US Army helicopter pilot whose last memory is flying in Afghanistan before he wakes up on a commuter train. Soon, he discovers that he has assumed the identity of another man. 8 minutes later, the train explodes and Stevens finds himself in some kind of pod. Vera Farmiga plays Goodwin, Captain Stevens's guide, and she explains to Stevens that he is their only hope in stopping the bombing and he has to go back. So captain Stevens gets to relive the last 8 minuets before the explosion over and over again in search of the bomber and the truth.

BMEotD #96 Quantum Leap

Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Doctor Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator, and vanished. He awoke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own, and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the from of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear, and so Doctor Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap, will be the leap home.

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Written with wit and charm and tackling social issues rarely ever seen on TV at the time, the show lasted 5 seasons, running from '89 to '93. Each episode began with the monologue above, and we would then see Sam (Scott Bakula,) leap into his next host. Confused, due to the "swiss cheese" effect which (conveniently) only allowed Sam to remember what was necessary for the task at hand, Sam would begin to piece together why he was there, and what needed fixing. His only constant, Al, was a cigar smoking, flashy dressing, ladies man, played perfectly by Dean Stockwell. Just when Sam puts all the pieces together and is starting to feel comfortable in his new skin, he's whisked off to his next assignment.

Quantum Leap has to be my all time favorite show, so much so, I own all the DVD sets and all the corny novels based on the show. I am a sucker for anything time travel, and the show could get quite schmaltzy at times, but you'd be hard pressed to find a show with as much heart as Quantum Leap.