Posted by Jared Mobarak on May 31, 2012 · Leave a Comment
“Just smile and wave boys. Smile and wave.” Made as though in opposition to Pixar’s brand of magical storytelling, Dreamworks Animation’s Madagascar ushered in the studio’s want for broader comedy and adolescent appeal. With Shrek, they found a franchise that subverted Disney’s use of fairy tales for cinematic fodder and created a nice hybrid of […]
Category animation, comedy, family, film reviews · Tags Andy Richter, Ben Stiller, Billy Frolick, Chris Rock, Conrad Vernon, David Schwimmer, Eric Darnell, Jada Pinkett Smith, Madagascar, Mark Burton, Meet the Robinsons, Monsters Inc., Sacha Baron Cohen, Shrek, The Dictator, The Emperor's New Groove, The Incredibles, Tom McGrath
Posted by Jared Mobarak on May 30, 2012 · Leave a Comment
“Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact impressionable souls will do so without fail. This monthly column focuses on the film industry’s willingness to capitalize on this truth, releasing one-sheets to serve as not representations of what audiences are to expect, but as propaganda to fill […]
Category film features, posterized propaganda · Tags A Midsummer's Night Sex Comedy, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Ali Larter, Alien, Alpha Dog, Art Machine A Trailer Park Company, AV Squad Print, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Bemis Balkind, Benjamin Walker, Blood & Chocolate, BLT Communications LLC, Brave, Cardinal Communications USA, Channing Tatum, Charlize Theron, Crazy Stupid Love, Creative Partnership, Crew Creative Advertising, Def Leppard, Dwayne Labuschagne, Family Guy, FIVE33, Gravillis Inc., High School, Ignition Print, Jaws, Joe Dante, Joe Versus the Volcano, John Alvin, John Stalberg, Keira Knightley, Like Crazy, Lola Versus, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, Magic Mike, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Mark Wahlberg, mOcean, Noomi Rapace, People Like Us, Piranha 3D, Piranha 3DD, Prometheus, Ridley Scott, Rock of Ages, Roger Kastel, Safety Not Guaranteed, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Seth MacFarlane, Snow White and the Huntsman, Steve Carell, Steven Soderbergh, Studio 54, Ted, The Arterie, The Refinery, The Robot Eye, The Secret World of Arrietty, The Social Network, The Two Towers, To Rome with Love, TRON, Wieslaw Rosocha, Wilfred, Woody Allen, WORKS ADV, Zelig
Posted by Jared Mobarak on May 29, 2012 · Leave a Comment
“Have I not given you all?” What happens when a fairy tale depicting an innocent princess saved by a litany of characters on her way to the crown turns into an epic battle with heroine in full armor storming the castle herself? Well, we discover just how flimsy a character the titular Snow White actually […]
Category action/adventure, fantasy, film reviews · Tags Bob Hoskins, Braveheart, Brian Gleeson, Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth, Eddie Marsan, Evan Daugherty, Hossein Amini, Ian McShane, John Lee Hancock, Johnny Harris, King Arthur, Kristen Stewart, Labyrinth, Nick Frost, Ray Winstone, Rupert Sanders, Sam Claflin, Sam Spruell, Snow White and the Huntsman, The Brothers Grimm, The Lord of the Rings, Toby Jones, Troy
Posted by Jared Mobarak on May 28, 2012 · Leave a Comment
2011/2012 Rochester Broadway Theatre League 2011/2012 Season, published by Buffalo Spree Publishing, Inc. Each performance at the Auditorium Theatre, on behalf of RBTL, has imagery and production notes supplied from the traveling company. The new season programs are based from the previous year without any major design changes.
Posted by Jared Mobarak on May 25, 2012 · Leave a Comment
“No one knows our phone number” All he had to do was stay hidden for an hour, biding time away from sight as his impossible doppelganger went through the same motions of an hour earlier. The ramifications of time travel would have been erased; the insane crippling fear of seeing another man identical to him […]
Category film reviews, foreign, science fiction, suspense/thriller · Tags Bárbara Goenaga, Candela Fernández, Karra Elejalde, Los cronocrímenes, Nacho Vigalondo, Primer, Shane Carruth, Spanish, Timecrimes
Posted by Jared Mobarak on May 25, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Titled “The Birds Sing a Pretty Song”, any fan of the show “Twin Peaks” should be intimately familiar with the Black Lodge. Looking to create an identity/logo that mimicked hotel/lodging locales, I took the obvious jagged striped pattern from the Man From Another Place’s room and attached it to one of the unique lamps bookending […]
Posted by Jared Mobarak on May 23, 2012 · Leave a Comment
“Always in a hurry; always at the same time” An Oscar nominee for Best Live Action Short with his debut work, writer/director Nacho Vigalondo has gone on to make a couple features with festival appeal in the almost decade since. But there is something peculiar, unique, and a bit demented about 7:35 de la mañana […]
Posted by Jared Mobarak on May 22, 2012 · Leave a Comment
“He didn’t say please” While strange for a Men in Black film to open with something other than a crashing spaceship, I’ll admit to being ecstatic for the alternative. Having the sexy Nicole Scherzinger lead us into the maximum-security prison housing one of the universe’s most notorious criminals definitely didn’t hurt either. What I really […]
Category action/adventure, comedy, film reviews, science fiction · Tags Alice Eve, Barry Sonnenfeld, Bill Hader, David Koepp, Emma Thompson, Etan Cohen, Jeff Nathanson, Jemaine Clement, Josh Brolin, Men in Black, Men in Black 3, Men in Black II, Michael Chernus, Michael Soccio, Michael Stuhlbarg, Nicole Scherzinger, Tommy Lee Jones, Vincent D'Onofrio, Will Smith
Posted by Jared Mobarak on May 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment
“I see you neuralyzed another partner” There’s nothing like a lost memory trope to allow lazy screenwriters the opportunity to explain their film within the construct of its plot. Despite an inventive, tongue-in-cheek reenactment program hosted by Peter Graves about mysterious conspiracy stories ushering us back into the Men in Black universe, Robert Gordon and […]
Category action/adventure, comedy, film reviews, science fiction · Tags Barry Fanaro, Barry Sonnenfeld, Biz Markie, Doug Jones, Ed Solomon, Jack Kehler, Johnny Knoxville, Kevin Grevioux, Lara Flynn Boyle, Linda Fiorentino, Martin Klebba, Men in Black, Men in Black II, Men in Black III, Patrick Warburton, Peter Graves, Rip Torn, Robert Gordon, Rosario Dawson, Scary Movie, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Tommy Lee Jones, Tony Shalhoub, Will Smith
Posted by Jared Mobarak on May 17, 2012 · Leave a Comment
“May I ask why you felt little Tiffany had to die?” Fresh off the success of Get Shorty two years prior, director Barry Sonnenfeld‘s still young but effective career found it’s biggest hit in the rollicking science fiction comedy Men in Black. Unfortunately for him, the film also proved to be his last cinematic work […]
Category action/adventure, comedy, film reviews, science fiction · Tags Barry Sonnenfeld, Coen Brothers, Dionne Warwick, Ed Solomon, Get Shorty, Linda Fiorentino, Lowell Cunningham, Men in Black, Penny Marshall, Rip Torn, Rob Reiner, Sylvester Stallone, Tommy Lee Jones, Tony Shalhoub, Vincent D'Onofrio, Will Smith
Posted by Jared Mobarak on May 15, 2012 · Leave a Comment
“It’s the North Koreans—I’m tellin’ ya” Screenwriters Erich and Jon Hoeber actually made paying Hasbro a boatload of cash for their seemingly unnecessary board game property a relevant story point in their big budget, science fiction actioner Battleship. The fact they had to conjure up a humanoid alien race with reptilian characteristics and cloaking technology […]
Category action/adventure, film reviews, science fiction · Tags Adam Godley, Alexander Skarsgård, Andy Roddick, Battleship, Brooklyn Decker, Dwayne Johnson, Erich Hoeber, Friday Night Lights, Gregory D. Gadson, Hamish Linklater, Helldorado, Independence Day, Jeff Goldblum, Jesse Plemons, John Tui, Jon Hoeber, Liam Neeson, Peter Berg, Rihanna, Roland Emmerich, Tadanobu Asano, Taylor Kitsch, The Rundown, Transformers, Very Bad Things
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