Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 30, 2016 · Leave a Comment
Cultivate Cinema Circle Summer 2016 Season July – September 2016 posters designed at 11×17 and 27×40 also viewable at cultivatecinemacircle.com
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 28, 2016 · Leave a Comment
“Wait for me” Writer/director Kenji Mizoguchi‘s Meiji period-set film about a struggling Kabuki actor and his devoted wife, 残菊物語 [Zangiku monogatari] [The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum], is a heartbreaking display of love’s power to endure no matter the external forces trying to extinguish it. For Kikunosuke Onoue (Shôtarô Hanayagi), the adoptive child of master […]
Category drama, film reviews, foreign, romance · Tags Criterion Collection, Gonjurô Kawarazaki, Japanese, Kakuko Mori, Kenji Mizoguchi, Kôkichi Takada, Matsutarô Kawaguchi, Shôfû Muramatsu, Shôtarô Hanayagi, The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum, Yoshikata Yoda, Zangiku monogatari
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 27, 2016 · Leave a Comment
“Without forgiveness the past determines who you are in the present” After finding international success with his spiritual teachings through best-selling books The Power of Now and A New Earth, author and counselor Eckhart Tolle set his sights on children in 2008 with Milton’s Secret and its blatantly synergistic subtitle to those previous works “An […]
Category drama, family, film reviews · Tags Barnet Bain, David Sutcliffe, Donald Martin, Donald Sutherland, Eckhart Tolle, Frank Riccio, Hays Wellford, Mia Kirshner, Michelle Rodriguez, Milton's Secret, Percy Hynes White, Robert S. Friedman, Sara B. Cooper, William Ainscough
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 26, 2016 · Leave a Comment
“This is a place for fighters” The story of Phiona Mutesi is perfectly tailored for a Disney-produced true-life inspirational sports drama. As a nine-year old girl living in the Katwe slum of Kampala, Uganda selling maize with her siblings to help support their single mother after their father died of AIDS, who would have expected […]
Category biography, drama, film reviews, sports · Tags David Oyelowo, Ethan Nazario Lubega, Lupita Nyong’o, Madina Nalwanga, Martin Kabanza, Mira Nair, Nikita Waligwa, Queen of Katwe, Ronald Ssemaganda, Taryn Kyaze, Tim Crothers, William Wheeler
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 24, 2016 · Leave a Comment
“You think when you die, you go to heaven. You come to us!” Of course J.J. Abrams would initiate the process of remastering Don Coscarelli‘s seminal Phantasm. Anyone who’s seen “Lost” will quickly notice similarities in their worlds shrouded by mystery devoid of a need or desire to provide explanation. This is what makes them […]
Category fantasy, film reviews, horror · Tags A. Michael Baldwin, Angus Scrimm, Bill Cone, Bill Thornbury, Don Coscarelli, J.J. Abrams, Kathy Lester, Phantasm, Ray Bradbury, Reggie Bannister
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 24, 2016 · Leave a Comment
“What am I paying for?” Colombia’s tourism department won’t be sanctioning Víctor Gaviria‘s La Mujer del Animal [The Animal’s Wife] anytime soon and I definitely will never be visiting to see how accurate a depiction of life there it proves. This film is two-hours of sadism at the hands of Tito Alexander Gómez Arias’ Libardo […]
Category drama, film features, film festival, film reviews, foreign, toronto international film festival · Tags Adriana López, Aura Pastora Méndez Suaza, Carlos Andrés Gómez Cadavid, Claribel Del Carmen Escalante Hurtado, La Mujer del Animal, Luisa Fernanda Valderrama Méndez, Natalia Polo, Spanish, The Animal's Wife, TIFF, Tito Alexander Gómez Arias, Toronto International Film Festival, Víctor Gaviria, Yakeline Rojas Arango
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 23, 2016 · Leave a Comment
“Can we at least see what’s possible?” It starts off so magically with conjoined twins Dasy (Angela Fontana) and Viola (Marianna Fontana) bringing hope and the word of God to the unfortunate souls languishing in poverty just north of Naples, Italy. They’re blissful when singing, eating up the attention and love from their parents Peppe […]
Category drama, film features, film festival, film reviews, foreign, toronto international film festival · Tags Angela Fontana, Antonia Truppo, Barbara Petronio, Edoardo De Angelis, Gaetano Bruno, Gianfranco Gallo, Indivisibili, Indivisible, Italian, Marco Mario de Notaris, Marianna Fontana, Massimiliano Rossi, Nicola Guaglianone, TIFF, Toni Laudadio, Toronto International Film Festival
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 22, 2016 · Leave a Comment
“If we do this right we never have to do this again” The best thing you can do to distance yourself from the big budget remake of a cult classic that serves as your feature directorial debut is to pare things down and deliver an original gem of your own. Fede Alvarez took the criticisms […]
Category film reviews, horror, suspense/thriller · Tags Daniel Zovatto, Don't Breathe, Dylan Minnette, Evil Dead, Fede Alvarez, Green Room, Jane Levy, Rodo Sayagues, Stephen Lang
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 22, 2016 · Leave a Comment
“My heart will always stay yellow and black” Just when you think it can’t get worse—that the vocal, racist minority spewing bile will be extinguished in a show of tide-turning empathy—everything is literally engulfed in flames as a city watches it burn to cheers from a cesspool of hate. This is the 2012-2013 season for […]
Category documentary, film features, film festival, film reviews, foreign, sports, toronto international film festival · Tags Arcadi Gaydamak, Ariel Harush, Dario Fernandez, Dzhabrail Kadiyev, Forever Pure, Hebrew, Itzik Korenfine, Maya Zinshtein, Meir Harush, Ofir Kriaf, Tehora la'ad, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival, Zaur Sadayev
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 21, 2016 · Leave a Comment
“Don’t let on that you know what you’re doing” It’s Tel Aviv in 2016 and the parties are wild. Drinking, dancing, snorting, kissing—it’s time for twenty-year olds to have fun and be alive. But whereas in America you’d get looks of jealousy at best or judgment at worst, culture dictates heavier consequences for three Palestinian […]
Category drama, film features, film festival, film reviews, foreign, toronto international film festival · Tags Ahlam Canaan, Bar Bahar, Eyad Sheety, Girls, Henry Andrawes, In Between, Khawlah Hag-Debsy, Mahmud Shalaby, Maysaloun Hamoud, Mouna Hawa, Samar Qupty, Sana Jammalieh, Shaden Kanboura, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 21, 2016 · Leave a Comment
“This land ain’t no place for a young girl” Another missing girl has Detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen) on the move while the world continues to turn a blind eye. This time it isn’t an aboriginal, though, the aftermath of his work in Mystery Road culminating in a shootout with everyone dead but he a […]
Category film features, film festival, film reviews, suspense/thriller, toronto international film festival · Tags Aaron Pedersen, Alex Russell, David Gulpilil, David Wenham, Goldstone, Ivan Sen, Jacki Weaver, Michelle Lim Davidson, Mystery Road, Pei-pei Cheng, TIFF, Tommy Lewis, Toronto International Film Festival, Ursula Yovich
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