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EYEWEAR THOUGHT SELMA THE BEST AMERICAN FILM OF 2014 SO WE ASKED THE CRITIC AND WRITER STEVEN TIMBERMAN , AN AMERICAN, TO WRITE ABOUT IT FOR US HERE IS HIS PERSONAL ESSAY, A REVIEW WE ARE GLAD TO SHARE SELMA IS TIMELESS, THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT WILL STALE   I don’t want to write about Hollywood’s problem with fostering, accepting, and recognizing diversity. I don’t want to write about Selma’s status as another javelin to be thrown in our Great Culture Wars. I don’t even want to write   about Selma’s ability to shift historical narratives in order to reach greater emotional truths. Well, much. I want to write about how viewing Selma made me feel. Though I grew up in Southern California, our community had a strong conservative lean. When students tried to organize a “Day of Silence” in support for LGBT rights, parents pulled their students from school in droves. An English teacher had the gall to criticize George W Bush as a “crook” and had to appear on f...

Gone Man, sadly Eyewear can't see everything, even with our x-ray specs. We loved House of Cards , Homeland , The Americans ,  Helix, Halt And Catch Fire , Gone Girl , and a bunch of other TV shows and movies, from The Grand Budapest Hotel to The Lego Movie to The Drop, The Equalizer, Deliver Us From Evil and The Giver to Interstellar to Guardians of the Galaxy to Peter Jackson's rip-roaring final Hobbit film; as well as the creepy voyeurism/news satirical thriller Nightcrawler (with a great turn by Rene Russo ).  Not to mention the impeccable yet odd homage to 80s erotic thrillers/slasher/actioner films, The Guest , the year's guiltiest pleasure. Another fine film was Belfast-based thriller '71 , with an impeccable recreation of a visual and film stock style from 40 years ago. Locke , with Tom Hardy , our favourite new actor, was a brilliant one-hander, a sort of 2001: A Birmingham-London Odyssey. Not to mention The Imitation Game, Birdman , and Whiplas...