Pre­dic­tions by Paul Stathakis | March 2, 2014: BEST PICTURE 12 Years a Slave Amer­i­can Hus­tle Cap­tain Phillips Dal­las Buy­ers Club Grav­i­ty Her Nebras­ka Philom­e­na The Wolf of Wall Street BEST DIRECTOR Alfon­so Cuarón, Grav­i­ty Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave Alexan­der Payne, Nebras­ka David O. Rus­sell, Amer­i­can Hus­tle Mar­tin Scors­ese, The Wolf of Wall Street BEST ACTOR Chris­t­ian Bale, Amer­i­can Hus­tle Bruce Dern, Nebras­ka Chi­we­tel Ejio­for, 12 Years… 

Some are going to walk into “The Bourne Lega­cy” not know­ing much about the lead actor. Most won’t even know his name. There are, of course, those will rec­og­nize him as “the guy” who dif­fused bombs in Kathryn Bigelow’s “The Hurt Lock­er” or as the actor who played one of Tom Cruise’s side­kicks in last year’s “Mis­sion Impos­si­ble: Ghost Pro­to­col.” But one thing is certain:… 

Accord­ing to Lion­s­gate, “One for the Mon­ey” is a com­e­dy. But did they ever make a mis­take in mar­ket­ing it as one. I say this because “One for the Mon­ey” is a train wreck of a com­e­dy, a wit­less film with enough robot­­i­­cal­­ly-deliv­­ered dia­logue to make your head spin, and it fails mis­er­ably as a comedic fea­ture because it is, unless I missed some­thing, completely… 

Nick Cas­sidy (Sam Wor­thing­ton) spent two years in prison for a crime he claims he nev­er com­mit­ted. He exe­cutes a plan which allows to suc­cess­ful­ly escape from prison and a month lat­er we find him stand­ing on a ledge of the Roo­sevelt Hotel in New York City. This is his attempt to set the record straight and to prove that he’s inno­cent.  Cas­sidy has only…