Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 25, 2017 · Leave a Comment
“Find the missing piece” The end of Jumanji shows Alan and Sarah chaining up the board game before throwing it over a bridge into water. Later we see it washed ashore on a beach, buried in the sand with chains removed as people walk by speaking what sounds like French. So we wonder how long […]
Category action/adventure, comedy, fantasy, film reviews · Tags Alex Wolff, Bobby Cannavale, Chris McKenna, Chris Van Allsburg, Dwayne Johnson, Erik Sommers, Jack Black, Jake Kasdan, Jeff Pinker, Jumanji, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Karen Gillan, Kevin Hart, Madison Iseman, Morgan Turner, Nick Jonas, Scott Rosenberg, Ser'Darius Blain
Posted by Jared Mobarak on November 28, 2015 · 1 Comment
“I’ve swallowed enough microchips and shit them back out again to make a computer” The Paul Feig/Melissa McCarthy train continues forward with James Bond spoof Spy after the box office successes of Bridesmaids and The Heat (with Ghostbusters still forthcoming). This installment sees McCarthy as the bona fide star, onscreen for practically the entire duration […]
Category action/adventure, comedy, film reviews · Tags Allison Janney, Ben Falcone, Bobby Cannavale, Bridesmaids, Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson, Ghostbusters, Jason Statham, Jude Law, Melissa McCarthy, Michael McDonald, Miranda Hart, Morena Baccarin, Paul Feig, Peter Serafinowicz, Rose Byrne, Spy, Tammy, The Heat
Posted by Jared Mobarak on July 13, 2015 · Leave a Comment
“Just a tall-tale” You can tell as soon as it happens where the Marvel machine broke Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish, the two guys who had been developing Ant-Man to their singular vision since before the Cinematic Universe’s cohesive arc began. It’s a funny cameo with an Avenger, one where Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) attempts […]
Category action/adventure, film reviews, science fiction · Tags Abby Ryder Fortson, Adam McKay, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Ant-Man, Bobby Cannavale, Captain America: Civil War, Corey Stoll, David Dastmalchian, Edgar Wright, Evangeline Lilly, Guardians of the Galaxy, Iron Man, Joe Cornish, John Slattery, Martin Donovan, Michael Douglas, Michael Peña, Paul Rudd, Peyton Reed, Thor, Tip 'T.I.' Harris
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 13, 2014 · Leave a Comment
“What? Never seen a kid in a suitcase before?” No one is ever going to say Ross Katz‘s Adult Beginners is original. The opening implosion for Jake’s (Nick Kroll) multi-million dollar investment project was done in Elizabethtown, his frightened guilt in not being there when his mother died of cancer is Garden State, and the […]
Category comedy, film features, film festival, film reviews, toronto international film festival · Tags 3 Men and a Baby, Adult Beginners, Bobby Cannavale, Elizabethtown, Garden State, Jeff Cox, Joel McHale, Josh Charles, Life as We Know It, Liz Flahive, Nick Kroll, Parks and Recreation, Paula Garcés, Rose Byrne, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival
Posted by Jared Mobarak on August 21, 2013 · 2 Comments
“When I did what I did I regretted it” A film dealing with issues of causality, Woody Allen‘s Blue Jasmine provides much more than surface appearances. Rather than simply be a character study of an emotionally and psychologically broken woman whose rarified airs of elitist wealth came crashing down after her husband’s villainous financial skeletons […]
Category drama, film reviews · Tags Alden Ehrenreich, Alec Baldwin, Andrew Dice Clay, Blue Jasmine, Bobby Cannavale, Cate Blanchett, Louis C.K., Peter Sarsgaard, Sally Hawkins, Woody Allen
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 14, 2011 · Leave a Comment
“We have kids, Mike. I’m not taking chances with Eminem down there.” Just when I finally catch Thomas McCarthy’s debut film, The Station Agent, and deem it the touchtone all his other work will be compared towards, he one-ups himself with Sundance fave Win Win. Delving into the human psyche and second chances once more, […]
Category comedy, drama, film reviews, sports · Tags Alex Shaffer, Amy Ryan, Bobby Cannavale, Burt Young, Clare Foley, David W. Thompson, Jeffrey Tambor, Melanie Lynskey, Paul Giamatti, Sundance Film Festival, The Station Agent, Thomas McCarthy, Win Win
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 12, 2011 · Leave a Comment
“Would you mind not looking at me right now?” Actor Thomas McCarthy is quite the paradox. The man has a face full of smugness and unchecked attitude, making him ideal for intelligent, arrogant jerks. Maybe jerk is too strong a word since he also has the capacity for remorse, but I do find it apt […]
Category comedy, drama, film reviews · Tags Bobby Cannavale, Jayce Bartok, Jo Lo Truglio, John Slattery, Michelle Williams, Patricia Clarkson, Peter Dinklage, Richard Jenkins, SubUrbia, The Station Agent, The Visitor, The Wire, Thomas McCarthy, Win Win
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