IT IS TIME TO GET THINGS STARTED YOU CINEPUNX FREAKS! Hey everyone and welcome to the 2014 YEAR IN REVIEW episode. We sat down with friend of the show Ivo Tomas to discuss some of our favorite music and movies from the year that was. We focused on our favorites because Liam has some uptight and stupid ideas around awards. So no awards from us. Instead we talk about those movies that made us feel things in a super intense way, and that is also really cool. Ivo is not quite the record nerd we are so he sat out for the record discussion. He was great though, and we were lucky to have him there to be part of the discussion. For those who have strong, sometimes irrationally so, opinions about what films should or should not be considered for end of year lists: we don’t care. We could not even agree amongst our selves about what criteria to use so, we just did our lists and if it is not what you would do, feel free to discuss it on your podcast or, better yet, comment on this one. We fully accept that our opinions do not represent facts, which means we welcome your push back on our picks and decisions. Leave us comments any number of places. Below you will see our lists for reference, though keep in mind they are listed randomly and not in order of importance. IVO: Favorite Films- St. Vincent The Imitation Game Ida Calvary The Guest Boxtrolls Guardians of the Galaxy Grand Budapest LEGO Movie Edge of Tomorrow Babadook Blue Ruin Foxcatcher Snowpiercer Whiplash Joshua: Favorite Films- Her 12 Years a Slave The Lego Movie The Grand Budapest Hotel Locke The Sacrament Blue Ruin The Double Under the Skin Guardians of the Galaxy Boxtrolls Pride Housebound St. Vincent The Guest Birdman Starry Eyes The Babadook Ida Jodorowsky’s Dune Favorite Albums- Mariachi El Bronx – III Aphex Twin – Syro Restorations – Lp3 Hari Kondabolu – Waiting for 2024 Hound – Out of Time At the Gates – At War with Reality Freddie Gibbs and Madlib – Piñata A Winged Victory for the Sullen – Atomos Allo Darlin – We Come from the Same Place Loscil – Sea Island Black Anvil – Hail Death Old Firm Casuals – This Means War Grouper – Ruins Keaton Henson – Romantic Works Nothing – Guilty of Everything Big Freedia – Just Be Free Boris – Noise Cassavetes – Oh So Long Thunder and Glory – As the Ocean Churns Bob Mould – Beauty and Ruin Liam: Favorite Films: Gloria The Grand Budapest Hotel The Look of Silence Jodorowsky’s Dune Under the Skin Blue Ruin Snowpiercer Guardians of the Galaxy The Guest The Lego Movie Whiplash The Tale of Princess Kaguya Nightcrawler The Way He Looks Force Majeure Her Locke Night Moves Ida Why Don’t You Play in Hell? Favorite Albums: Praise – Lights Went Out Indian – From All Purity Trap Them – Blissfucker D’Angelo – Black Messiah Total Control – Typical System Yautja – Songs of Descent Tv On the Radio – Seeds Run the Jewels – 2 Cult Leader – Nothing For Us Here Ringworm – Hammer of the Witch Boston Strangler – Fire Code Orange – I Am King Future Islands – Singles Parquet Courts – Content Nausea Thou – Heathen Step Forward – S/T The Roots – And Then You Shoot Your Cousin Long Knife – Wilderness Sun Kil Moon – Benji The Impalers – S/T Cretin – Stranger So there are our lists. Honestly, I hope these are useful not in evaluating how cool or not cool we are, but really for finding some things that you were perhaps unfamiliar with. It may also give you yet another reason to yell at us which is of course always sick. SOUND NOTES- So, in typical technology confused style Liam attemtpted to “fix” some of the sound issues by playing with the settings in the program we use to record (Kristal). This lead to some interesting sound problems. Nothing so bad that the episode is un-listenable,