This year was weird. I cannot explain why exactly (maybe Mama had something to do with it?), but 2014 was a weird (and I guess at times wonderful) year for movies. A lotta dumb busts, but a lot of incredible features that made up for whatever Hollywood…

Michael Fassbender first stole my heart away in the ’09 indie Fish Tank at the Athens Film Festival then later on alongside Carrie Mulligan in Shame, not to mention his intense performance in McQueen’s recent Academy award-winning picture Twelve Years A Slave. But in a different kind of role with…