Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 30, 2015 · Leave a Comment
If you don’t think someone fresh off an Oscar nomination would spend five years to follow her critically acclaimed fictional narrative with the first feature-length documentary of her career, you don’t know Debra Granik. When I interviewed her back in 2010 in support of Winter’s Bone, she was already talking about documentary observation as being […]
Category film features, interviews, z.slideshow · Tags Alicia Soriano Hall, Debra Granik, Down to the Bone, Ronnie Hall, Snake Feed, Sons of Anarchy, Stray Dog, Victoria Stewart, Winter’s Bone
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 29, 2015 · Leave a Comment
“If there was another way I would have taken it” Much of the success attributed to “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” stems from it using its time travel-centric mythology to erase the franchise’s failures—mainly Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. You’d think Terminator Salvation would have followed suit, but for whatever reason it held onto […]
Category action/adventure, film reviews, science fiction · Tags Alan Taylor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Byung-hun Lee, Courtney B. Vance, Dayo Okeniyi, Emilia Clarke, J.K. Simmons, Jai Courtney, James Cameron, Jason Clarke, Josh Friedman, Joss Whedon, Laeta Kalogridis, Megan Ellison, Patrick Lussier, Saving Private Ryan, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Terminator Genisys, Terminator Salvation, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, The Terminator, Thor: The Dark World
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 27, 2015 · 1 Comment
“Save France with Coke” The rock and roll life has always been filled with temptation no matter what decade. So electronica, house, and garage music’s heyday (has it ended?) of the 90s proves no exception. With its world of DJs and samplers standing at turntables while their audience danced and raved below, however, learning a […]
Category biography, drama, film reviews, musical/concert · Tags Arnaud Azoulay, Arsinée Khanjian, Brady Corbet, Daft Punk, Denis Lenoir, Eden, Félix de Givry, Greta Gerwig, Hugo Conzelmann, Mia Hansen-Løve, Pauline Etienne, Roman Kolinka, Sven Hansen-Løve, Vincent Lacoste, Vincent Macaigne
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 27, 2015 · Leave a Comment
“It’s veterans helping veterans. Who else do we got?” Five years after writer/director Debra Granik‘s sophomore effort Winter’s Bone earned four Oscars nominations including Best Picture, she returns to the big screen with a documentary spawned from her experience filming in Missouri. Far from a novice to the genre-she lensed a documentary called Thunder in […]
Category documentary, film reviews · Tags Alicia Soriano Hall, Debra Granik, Down to the Bone, Felipe Angel Padilla Soriano, Felipe de Jesús Padilla Soriano, It's a Wonderful Life, Ronnie Hall, Sons of Anarchy, Stray Dog, Thunder in Guyana, Winter’s Bone
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 26, 2015 · Leave a Comment
After finding success from his debut feature Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale—an expansion of a world he created through two previous shorts all released together by Oscilloscope—Finnish writer/director Jalmari Helander did what many European filmmakers do and went English-language for his sophomore effort. But he did so on his terms by once again writing his […]
Category film features, interviews, z.slideshow · Tags Big Game, Felicity Huffman, Jalmari Helander, Jim Broadbent, Jorma Tommila, Juri Seppä, Miska Seppä, Onni Tommila, Petri Jokiranta, Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale, Ray Stevenson, Samuel L. Jackson, Ted Levine, Victor Garber
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 25, 2015 · Leave a Comment
“Don’t drink. I only sniff now.” There’s a plot inside Aleksey German‘s final film Трудно быть богом [Hard to Be a God]—an audacious sci-fi epic slinging mud and feces in our faces while everyone onscreen sniffs them like drugs until we’re involuntarily following suit. No really, there is. Well, maybe a lingering vestige of what […]
Category drama, film reviews, foreign, science fiction · Tags Aleksey German, Arkadiy Strugatskiy, Boris Strugatskiy, Evgeniy Gerchakov, Funny Games, Hard to Be a God, Laura Pitskhelauri, Leonid Yarmolnik, Russian, Svetlana Karmalita, Trudno byt bogom, Vladmir Ilin, Yuriy Klimenko, Yuriy Tsurilo
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 24, 2015 · Leave a Comment
“Fresh cakes” Something Steve Harvey said on a recent episode of “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” really struck me: “Tragedy strikes. I got news for you—we have the jokes that night. We know that we can’t bring this to the public yet cause we’ll get hammered. But in a room alone, when it’s just us, […]
Category comedy, film reviews · Tags A Million Ways to Die in the West, Alec Sulkin, Amanda Seyfried, Bill Cosby, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, Family Guy, Giovanni Ribisi, Jay Leno, Jessica Barth, Mark Wahlberg, Michael Dorn, Mila Kunis, Patrick Warburton, Sam J. Jones, Seth MacFarlane, South Park, Steve Harvey, Ted, Ted 2, Tom Brady, Wellesley Wild
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 23, 2015 · Leave a Comment
A hit at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival now getting a limited release from The Film Arcade, Unexpected proves a welcome breath of fresh air for stories dealing with pregnancy against the usual romantic comedy fare usurping the plot point for cheap laughs. Director/cowriter Kris Swanberg utilized her own experiences as a mom and from […]
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 21, 2015 · Leave a Comment
“Anger is more useful than despair” There’s one great moment in Jonathan Mostow‘s Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines: its end. I’m not being snarky in some jokey “because it was finally over” kind of way either. It is legitimately good. Half twist, half bittersweet salvation in the face of apocalyptic nightmare where a hero […]
Category action/adventure, film reviews, science fiction · Tags Andrew G. Vajna, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Claire Danes, David Andrews, Earl Boen, James Cameron, John D. Brancato, Jonathan Mostow, Kristanna Loken, Mario Kassar, Michael Ferris, Nick Stahl, Tedi Sarafian, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, The Terminator
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 20, 2015 · 1 Comment
“I don’t know what’s going on with the bananas at Trader Joe’s right now” Yes Kris Swanberg‘s Unexpected revolves around two surprise pregnancies and the mothers-to-be reacting to brand new futures set before them. However, it doesn’t use that premise to build a tower of clichés for us to watch topple to the ground in […]
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 19, 2015 · Leave a Comment
In the six years between Snow Angels and Prince Avalanche, writer/director David Gordon Green became a collaborator on a string of comedies of which he was not credited as a writer. In the two years since he’s utilized that process with drama Joe and now Manglehorn. He’s said in other interviews that it’s a way […]
Category film features, interviews, z.slideshow · Tags Al Pacino, Chris Messina, David Gordon Green, Eastbound & Down, Explosions in the Sky, George Washington, Harmony Korine, Holly Hunter, Joe, Manglehorn, Paul Logan, Pineapple Express, Prince Avalanche, Richard A. Wright, Scarface, Snow Angels, The Godfather, The Goonies, Tim Orr
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