Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment
“Read the cards Shorty” This review contains spoilers Kimberly Peirce’s Stop-Loss is the perfect example of a film that can show whether you like the medium or the stories. I think I can tell myself that I am a true film fanatic after watching this because I thought it was a great piece of work. […]
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 26, 2008 · Leave a Comment
I give my experience an A for effort, but a C+ for execution. Sure I only went to one screening, but there was just too much that went astray…hopefully it was a blemish on an otherwise top-notch festival, but if not, at least the workings are there and maybe next year can continue to improve. […]
Category buffalo niagara film festival, film features, film festival · Tags Benjamin Busch, Riviera Theatre, Run Fatboy Run, Sympathetic Details, The Buffalo Niagara Film Festival, The Cake Eaters, The Natural, The Wire, Tully
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 25, 2008 · Leave a Comment
“What are we, elephants?” Mary Stewart Masterson’s film The Cake Eaters is a very well done piece of cinema. A slice of rural life in a sleepy town, we are privy to a period of turmoil and discovery for two families living there. The Kimbrough’s have recently lost their matriarch and a second family is […]
Category buffalo niagara film festival, drama, film features, film festival, film reviews · Tags Aaron Stanford, Bruce Dern, Jayce Bartok, Kristen Stewart, Mary Stuart Masterson, SubUrbia, The Cake Eaters, Tully, X-Men
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 25, 2008 · 1 Comment
“I could be a farmer” Benjamin Busch’s Sympathetic Details showed here at the Buffalo Niagara Film Festival as the “short” film of a double-header bill with a feature length work. It is tough to call this film a short because its 57 minute runtime puts it on the cusp of being more. I don’t think […]
Category buffalo niagara film festival, drama, film features, film festival, film reviews · Tags Benjamin Busch, Clarke Peters, Domenick Lombardozzi, In Bruges, John Doman, Marisol Chacin, Ryan Sands, Seth Gilliam, Sympathetic Details, The Wire
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 23, 2008 · 1 Comment
“HEAD, Move!” Sometimes nostalgia makes a film even better when watching again after a long hiatus. Heck, I didn’t even really view it as I was doing work while it played in the background. The memories I had of So I Married an Axe Murderer allowed me to fill in the blanks and create a […]
Category comedy, film reviews · Tags Alan Arkin, Amanda Plummer, Anthony LaPaglia, Austin Powers, Charles Grodin, Mike Myers, Nancy Travis, Phil Hartman, Saturday Night Live, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Steven Wright
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 21, 2008 · Leave a Comment
“Verbal persuasion” I don’t think anyone does small, dialogue-heavy indie film like Richard Linklater. He is the master of them and that only makes me madder when he remakes movies like Bad News Bears. Before Sunrise and Before Sunset are beautiful films shot simply and effectively, showing that cinema can rely on words and actors […]
Category drama, film reviews · Tags Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Dead Poets Society, Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater, Robert Sean Leonard, Stephen Belber, Tape, The Bad News Bears, Uma Thurman
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 21, 2008 · Leave a Comment
“A son? Did you know he had a son?!” Do not let the Hollywood marketing machine fool you. Yes Simon Pegg stars in Run, Fatboy, Run and yes he has cowriter credit on it, however, this is not a Pegg/Wright/Park production like Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead, and “Spaced.” No this is a story […]
Category comedy, film reviews · Tags Black Books, David Schwimmer, Dylan Moran, Edgar Wright, Farrelly Brothers, Friends, Hank Azaria, Harish Patel, Hot Fuzz, Michael Ian Black, Nick Frost, Nira Park, Run Fatboy Run, Shaun of the Dead, Simon Pegg, Spaced, Thandie Newton, The State
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 18, 2008 · Leave a Comment
“You don’t see that everyday” Forget all the subtle and nuance of mood from Neil Marshall’s taut thriller The Descent; he decided to go all out with the new flick Doomsday. Call it 28 Weeks Beyond Thunderdome if you’d like as Marshall seems to cull all the best aspects of past cinema B-movie greats to […]
Category action/adventure, film reviews, science fiction · Tags Alexander Siddig, Bob Hoskins, Craig Conway, David O’Hara, Doomsday, Kiss, Malcolm McDowell, Neil Marshall, Rhona Mitra, The Descent
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 17, 2008 · Leave a Comment
“The music is all around us; all you have to do is listen” I don’t know if August Rush shows the makings of success like her father Jim, but Kirsten Sheridan has crafted something beautiful. Credit the writers for sure, however, Sheridan has put it all together into a very nice package. This is a […]
Category family, film reviews, musical/concert · Tags August Rush, Freddie Highmore, Jim Sheridan, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Keri Russell, Kirsten Sheridan, Leon G. Thomas III, Robin Williams, Terrence Howard
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 16, 2008 · Leave a Comment
“Light as a feather” Writer/Director James Gray has made three films with six or seven years in between each. His newest is the cop drama We Own the Night, a pretty basic tale of brothers on different sides of the law and a crime that brings them together. Truthfully, it is very straightforward, clichéd, and […]
Category drama, film reviews · Tags Alex Veadov, Danny Hoch, Eva Mendes, James Gray, Joaquin Phoenix, M. Night Shyamalan, Mark Wahlberg, Moni Moshonov, Robert Duvall, We Own the Night
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 15, 2008 · Leave a Comment
“That’s not a woman” Now I have never played nor really heard anything about the video game for which Hitman is based off of. Besides the whole “hitman” aspect, I guess it is a first-person shooter and pretty popular. Right now, the only reference I have is of the screenshot used in the film, (honestly […]
Category action/adventure, film reviews · Tags Arnold Schwarzenegger, Deadwood, Dougray Scott, Go, Henry Ian Cusick, Hitman, Lost, Michael Offei, Olga Kurylenko, Prison Break, Robert Knepper, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Girl Next Door, Timothy Olyphant
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