Posted by Jared Mobarak on August 30, 2010 · Leave a Comment
“I don’t think God is very interested in me Father”
Category film reviews, suspense/thriller · Tags Anton Corbijn, Control, George Clooney, Irina Björklund, Johan Leysen, Martin Booth, Martin Ruhe, Paolo Bonacelli, Rowan Joffe, The American, Thekla Reuten, Violante Placido
Posted by Jared Mobarak on August 28, 2010 · 4 Comments
“Crooks always come undone” The new, critically acclaimed Australian film Animal Kingdom debuted earlier this year at Sundance to rave reviews before it even opened in its native country. Finally, eight months later, the rest of North America is able to check out this brutal crime drama for themselves in select cities too. And they […]
Category drama, film reviews, suspense/thriller · Tags Animal Kingdom, Antony Partos, Ben Mendelsohn, David Michôd, Guy Pearce, Jacki Weaver, James Frecheville, Joel Edgerton, Luke Ford, Sullivan Stapleton
Posted by Jared Mobarak on August 27, 2010 · 1 Comment
“But if you’ve been bad, God don’t even hear you. He don’t even hear ya talkin’.” Overwhelmed. The tagline got it right: every sense—by the end of Days of Heaven—will be overwhelmed. Terrence Malick’s second feature film is as breathtaking as you’ve heard, mesmerizing you with its sumptuous beauty until the hellish climax burns through […]
Category #002 Terrence Malick, drama, film features, film marathons, film reviews, romance · Tags Andrew Wyeth, Brooke Adams, Camille Saint-Saëns, Criterion Collection, Days of Heaven, Haskell Wexler, Linda Manz, Martin Sheen, Néstor Almendros, Richard Gere, Robert J. Wilke, Sam Shepard, Terrence Malick
Posted by Jared Mobarak on August 26, 2010 · Leave a Comment
“Dan, take me to Berlin” Acclaimed director—and Buffalo, NY native—Nanette Burstein has finally made her way to the world of fictional film. After helming the documentary The Kid Stays in the Picture about producer Robert Evans, one could say she took a step towards narrative with American Teen, a real-life look into today’s high schools […]
Category comedy, film reviews, romance · Tags American Teen, Charlie Day, Christina Applegate, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Drew Barrymore, Geoff LaTulippe, Going the Distance, Jason Sudeikis, Jim Gaffigan, John Hughes, Justin Long, Kristen Schaal, Nanette Burstein, Robert Evans, Ron Livingston, The Breakfast Club, The Kid Stays in the Picture
Posted by Jared Mobarak on August 25, 2010 · Leave a Comment
“There goes Channel 14 … going the wrong way” Shot at the end of 2008 with promotional materials cropping up during the following year, the only fathomable reason I can think for the film Takers being released in the second half of 2010 is actor/producer Chris Brown’s extra-curricular activities. Honestly, besides the uninspired poster residing […]
Category action/adventure, film reviews, suspense/thriller · Tags Brad Pitt, Chris Brown, George Clooney, Hayden Christensen, Idris Elba, Jay Hernandez, John Luessenhop, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Matt Damon, Matt Dillon, Michael Ealy, Ocean's 11, Paul Walker, Takers, The Wire, Tip 'T.I.' Harris
Posted by Jared Mobarak on August 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment
“The first time I’m in love, I’m in love with you” They just don’t make movies like this anymore and there definitely isn’t a comparable screen duo working today. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers collaborated on an astounding ten films together; most described jokingly by my friends as having the same plot and being mere […]
Category comedy, film reviews, musical/concert, romance · Tags David Lynch, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Harriet Hoctor, Hermes Pan, Ira Gershwin, Jay Sandrich, Jerome Cowan, Ketti Gallian, Mark Sandrich, Rebekah del Rio, Shall We Dance, Soap, William Brisbane
Posted by Jared Mobarak on August 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment
“A man without his word is no better than a beast” Writer/director Neil Marshall has style and hopefully will continue to bring it forth on cinema screens for years to come, if he decides to travel back to America or not. Many lesser auteurs would have taken that Hollywood payday and looked for another to […]
Category action/adventure, film reviews, war · Tags Centurion, David Morrissey, Dominic West, Doomsday, Imogen Poots, Liam Cunningham, Michael Fassbender, Neil Marshall, Olga Kurylenko, Paul Freeman, Riz Ahmed, The Descent, Ulrich Thomsen
Posted by Jared Mobarak on August 22, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Nick Mendola—a friend and constant collaborator of mine—had an idea to try and drive funds into the local, Mom-and-Pop businesses of the Western New York region. He was looking to make the city’s restaurants commodities unto themselves by creating a campaign to help push them into the public’s consciousness so entrenched in the allure of […]
Posted by Jared Mobarak on August 22, 2010 · Leave a Comment
“Enjoying the expansive views of the countryside Mennonite community” Tuesday, August 24, 2010 marks the drop date for Ra Ra Riot’s sophomore release The Orchard. Accompanying Special Edition copies of the disc, available at Barsuk Records, is a making of documentary short by directors Taryn Gould and Emily Kowalczyk. Deciding to self-produce the disc without […]
Category documentary, film reviews, musical/concert, shorts · Tags Alexandra Lawn, Andrew Maury, Barsuk Records, Emily Kowalczyk, Gabriel Duquette, John Ryan Pike, Mathieu Santos, Milo Bonacci, Ra Ra Riot, Rebecca Zeller, Taryn Gould, The Orchard, The Rhumb Line, Wes Miles
Posted by Jared Mobarak on August 20, 2010 · Leave a Comment
“He said that if the Devil came at me, I could shoot him with a gun” A character at the end of Terrence Malick’s debut feature film Badlands tells antihero Kit that he is “quite the individual”. This could be the understatement of 1973. Based on the 1950s Starkweather-Fugate killing spree, the film tells the […]
Category #002 Terrence Malick, drama, film features, film marathons, film reviews, western · Tags Badlands, James Dean, Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Terrence Malick, Warren Oates
Posted by Jared Mobarak on August 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment
“Yes poo man, we’ve come from far, far away in the land of soap” I must say I’m disappointed in Emma Thompson. I could understand her desire to write and star in an adaptation of Nurse Matilda—perhaps a childhood favorite of hers or her children—but her new incarnation of the wart-faced, bucktoothed taskmaster, Nanny McPhee […]
Category family, film reviews · Tags Asa Butterfield, Bill Bailey, Emma Thompson, Eros Vlahos, Ewan McGregor, Katy Brand, Lil Woods, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Maggie Smith, Nanny McPhee, Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, Nanny McPhee Returns, Nurse Matilda, Oscar Steer, Pink Floyd, Ralph Fiennes, Rhys Ifans, Rosie Taylor-Ritson, Sinead Matthews, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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