A Most Violent Year 2014 Movie

A Most Violent Year is an upcoming American crime drama film directed and written by J. C. Chandor. The film stars Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, Alessandro Nivola, David Oyelowo, Albert Brooks and Catalina Sandino Moreno. It will make its world premiere as the opening film of the AFI Fest on November 6, 2014 and be released theatrically on December 31, 2014.

A crime drama set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on a the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.

On June 5, 2013 Javier Bardem joined the film to play the lead. On July 16, 2013 Jessica Chastain joined the cast to play the lead role along with Bardem. On December 3, 2013, Oscar Isaac joined the lead cast of the film replacing Bardem. On January 27, 2014 Albert Brooks joined the film, playing Isaac's character's attorney, and actress Catalina Sandino Moreno also joined the film in a supporting role. On January 29, 2014, while the film's shooting was underway, David Oyelowo joined the cast of the film. Other cast members include Ashley Williams, Elyes Gabel, Harris Yulin, Giselle Eisenberg, and Elizabeth Marvel. On February 21, 2014 Alessandro Nivola joined the cast of the film, he'll play Peter Forente, a heating oil distributor who is a competitor to Isaac’s character.

The filming of the film A Most Violent Year began on January 29, 2014 in New York City. The shooting of the film was underway on February 18th in Manhattan, where Chastain was spotted. On February 22, 2014 the filming was underway on Queens Plaza South on Queens Boulevard in Long Island City, NY. Filming resumed in the Maspeth section of Queens on March 2, 2014.

X-Men Nightcrawler 2014 Movie | Watch on Halloween

This month we've seen the release of the mediocre evil doll movie Annabelle, the rebooted dud that was Dracula Untold, and the embarrassingly uninspired Ouija. Which is to say October has been painfully underwhelming when it comes to horror movie releases. So what is a moviegoer to do on Halloween to get those chills that creep up your spine and follow you home? How will you get that electric adrenaline that races through you veins and makes even the most mundane situation seem potentially perilous?

Easy: see Nightcrawler.

Written and directed by Dan Gilroy, Nightcrawler is on one level a satire of our current "if it bleeds it leads" news culture. The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Lou Bloom, a freelance videographer who uses a fast car, police scanner, consumer camera, and a very flexible sense of morality to capture catastrophes--murders, fires, car wrecks--for the morning news. Like the latest trailer has been teasing, the film has a wicked sense of humor. It's biting and laugh out loud funny. But more than that, it's deeply, thoroughly chilling.

As Lou Bloom strives to make this weird night gig into an empire, he begins to make choices that go from distasteful to downright evil. And since we are tied to him through it all, Gilroy spares us no horror and offers no reprieve. He's a villain -- cold, calculating, and charismatic in a creepy way. There's no hero here. There's just Lou Bloom, who'll we'll follow to gory news stories and rivetingly uncomfortable situations, including the most unnerving dinner date cinema has ever seen.

Jake Gyllenhaal is spectacular as this driven and deranged anti-hero. Shedding muscles and his pleasantly chubby cheeks, he's gaunt and gangly here, looking like a malnourished animal that will do anything for a meal. It's a smart choice, and one that's underscored by an energetic and unhinged performance that literally gave me goosebumps.

Flat-out, I'll be cursing the Academy if Jake Gyllenhaal is snubbed for a Best Actor nomination this year. While others have had guidelines or real-life inspiration for their buzzed about parts, Gyllenhaal brings us an original, unmapped and gangly monster who could well be among us. Lou Bloom is his Hannibal Lecter, which--yes--won Anthony Hopkins the Oscar for The Silence of the Lambs. But for now, forget about the Oscars. Focus on taking the opportunity to see this deeply creepy performance in a theater where it will surround and totally entrance you.

From its twisted tale of a bad man gone worse to its unapologetically shocking visuals and its sure to be classic movie monster, Nightcrawler is a joy ride down a path to damnation, it's exhilarating, disturbing, and brilliant filmmaking. It's one of the best films of the year. And it's the absolute perfect choice for Halloween.