Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 29, 2019 · Leave a Comment
“Remember who you are” The sun rises at the screen’s bottom as Lebo M. is heard singing in Zulu. We take a look at the wide-open expanse of an African savannah before slowly honing in on herds of animals moving towards a single spot: Pride Rock. There we find Mufasa (James Earl Jones) and Sarabi […]
Category action/adventure, animation, drama, family, film reviews · Tags Brenda Chapman, Carmen Twillie, Cheech Marin, Elton John, Ernie Sabella, Hans Zimmer, Irene Mecchi, James Earl Jones, Jeremy Irons, Jim Cummings, Jonathan Roberts, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Kimba and the White Lion, Lebo M., Linda Woolverton, Madge Sinclair, Matthew Broderick, Moira Kelly, Nathan Lane, Osamu Tezuka, Rob Minkoff, Robert Guillaume, Roger Allers, Rowan Atkinson, The Lion King, Tim Rice, Whoopi Goldberg
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 28, 2019 · Leave a Comment
“I never promised you a rose garden” We meet Phil McGuire (Greg Kinnear) exiting his parked car while still in traffic to climb up a bridge railing. It’s a one hundred-plus foot drop into the water and he imagines taking the plunge before a group of teens with cellphones outstretched jolt him from the morbid […]
Category comedy, drama, film reviews · Tags Bradley Whitford, Emily Mortimer, Greg Kinnear, Jay Duplass, Kurt Fuller, Luke Wilson, Megan Charpentier, Nicole Oliver, Phil, Robert Forster, Stephen Mazur, Taylor Schilling
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 27, 2019 · Leave a Comment
“In the dark of the night she’ll be gone” In a fantasy world where royalty was adored as idyllically benevolent leaders thinking only about how to protect and serve their people, the Romanovs were betrayed by the evil Rasputin (Christopher Lloyd) who subsequently consorted with the Devil to wield dark magic powerful enough to curse […]
Category action/adventure, animation, comedy, drama, family, film reviews, romance · Tags Anastasia, Angela Lansbury, Bernadette Peters, Bob Tzusiker, Bruce Graham, Christopher Lloyd, Don Bluth, Eric Tuchman, Gary Goldman, Hank Azaria, John Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Kirsten Dunst, Lynn Ahrens, Meg Ryan, Noni White, Stephen Flaherty, Susan Gauthier
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 27, 2019 · Leave a Comment
“Would it hurt you to play along just once?” The cause might be unnamed, but the fact it’s still sunny at midnight guarantees the giant star at the center of our solar system is going supernova (whether or not physics deems it possible). Because all life on Earth will cease in a predetermined instant, you […]
Category comedy, drama, film reviews, romance · Tags Bruce McDonald, Callum Keith Rennie, Daniel Iron, David Cronenberg, Don McKellar, François Girard, Geneviève Bujold, Last Night, Michael McMurtry, Roberta Maxwell, Robin Gammell, Sandra Oh, Sarah Polley, Tracy Wright, Trent McMullen
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 26, 2019 · Leave a Comment
“Miss me?” After an excitingly popular debut during The Conjuring‘s prologue, the creepily revamped Annabelle doll (its real-life counterpart was actually a Raggedy Anne) earned the title role in the first spin-off of this ever-growing horror universe. That installment left much to be desired with screenwriter Gary Dauberman eventually redeeming himself three years later on […]
Category film reviews, horror · Tags Annabelle Comes Home, Gary Dauberman, James Wan, Katie Sarife, Madison Iseman, McKenna Grace, Michael Cimino, Patrick Wilson, Samara Lee, The Conjuring, Vera Farmiga
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 25, 2019 · Leave a Comment
“Have you got coke?” Jack Malik (Himesh Patel) has dreams of singer/songwriter stardom, but this Clacton-on-Sea native is lucky if one person besides best friend/manager Ellie (Lily James) and their mates Nick (Harry Michell) and Carol (Sophia Di Martino) is actually listening to “Summer Song” let alone enjoying it at gigs. That’s the pitfall of […]
Category comedy, fantasy, film reviews, musical/concert · Tags Danny Boyle, Ed Sheeran, Harry Michell, Himesh Patel, Jack Barth, Joel Fry, Justin Edwards, Kate McKinnon, Lily James, Richard Curtis, Robert Carlyle, Sarah Lancashire, Sophia Di Martino, The Beatles, Yesterday
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 25, 2019 · Leave a Comment
“How come she got lost in the shuffle?” An opening montage of images and maps briskly moving backwards from present-day to the late nineteenth century while moving from Hollywood to France foreshadows exactly what Pamela B. Green has delivered with Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché. This is a history lesson, investigative journal, […]
Category documentary, film reviews · Tags Alice Guy, Alison McMahan, Ava DuVernay, Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché, Herbert Blaché, John Bailey, Lois Weber, Maxine Haleff, Pamela B. Green, Simone Guy, The Cabbage Fairy
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 24, 2019 · Leave a Comment
“Mary points the way” There’s a scene in Corin Hardy‘s The Nun where a young postulant receives her vows inside an unholy abbey while the ashes of a dead sister smoke in the background and an unlikely alley loads a shotgun in the fore. It’s the type of moment that should conjure laughs via its […]
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 21, 2019 · Leave a Comment
“She’ll be okay” It was said upon the release of Toy Story 3 that the franchise was done as far as Woody (Tom Hanks) and Buzz Lightyear’s (Tim Allen) adventures were concerned. These sentiments made sense because it ended nicely on a logical breaking point wherein the boy whose name adorned their feet grew-up and […]
Category action/adventure, animation, comedy, family, film reviews, z.slideshow · Tags Andrew Stanton, Annie Potts, Bonnie Hunt, Christina Hendricks, Joan Cusack, John Lasseter, Jordan Peele, Josh Cooley, Keanu Reeves, Keegan Michael Key, Madeleine McGraw, Rashida Jones, Stephany Folsom, Tim Allen, Tom Hanks, Tony Hale, Toy Story 4, Will McCormack
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 21, 2019 · Leave a Comment
“You were way scarier than the last sea monster” As the wet blanket of the group, Rex (Wallace Shawn) rarely gets to do anything more than fret and accidentally cause problems due to uncontrollable anxieties. So why not let him have some fun, albeit against his better judgment? Knowing this outcome would only be possible […]
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 20, 2019 · Leave a Comment
“Are we having fun now?” It’s not everyday a remake gets produced of a currently running franchise, but that’s exactly what’s happened with Child’s Play. While original screenwriter Don Mancini continues to advance the escapades of his version’s murderous doll possessed by a serial killer’s soul (most recently in 2017’s Cult of Chucky with a […]
Category film reviews, horror · Tags Aubrey Plaza, Beatrice Kitsos, Brian Tyree Henry, Carlease Burke, Child's Play, David Lewis, Don Mancini, Gabriel Bateman, Lars Klevberg, Mark Hamill, Tim Matheson, Ty Consiglio, Tyler Burton Smith
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