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 7, 2019 · Leave a Comment
“This will not bring him back to us” Here’s the thing. Godzilla vs. Kong was announced way back in 2015—a year after Godzilla released and two before Kong: Skull Island. Warner Bros. wasn’t taking their time rolling out the MonsterVerse and thus guaranteed we knew the big bad reptile and big bad mammal would eventually […]
Category action/adventure, fantasy, film reviews · Tags Aisha Hinds, Anthony Ramos, Bradley Whitford, Charles Dance, Christopher Shy, Godzilla, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Ken Watanabe, Kyle Chandler, Michael Dougherty, Millie Bobby Brown, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Sally Hawkins, Thomas Middleditch, Vera Farmiga, Zach Shields, Ziyi Zhang
Posted by Jared Mobarak on January 18, 2019 · Leave a Comment
“Let’s see if it’s your time” It’s billed as a down and dirty revenge flick with some calling it a redundant variation on a theme “better” films already delivered. That’s not how I see it, though. No, Karyn Kusama‘s latest is about guilt. Erin Bell (Nicole Kidman) isn’t drowning herself in alcohol and pushing everyone […]
Category action/adventure, drama, film reviews, z.slideshow · Tags Beau Knapp, Bradley Whitford, Destroyer, Jade Pettyjohn, James Jordan, Karyn Kusama, Matt Manfredi, Nicole Kidman, Phil Hay, Scoot McNairy, Sebastian Stan, Shamier Anderson, Tatiana Maslany, Toby Huss, Toby Kebbell, Zach Villa
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 19, 2018 · Leave a Comment
“Choose, commit, and move” Men have it tough don’t they? I mean they have to worry about married women they’ve engaged in inner-office affairs with ratting them out to the new boss. Some are forced to face the crushing existential crisis that comes with their failed pipe dreams of rock stardom revealing how they’re nothing […]
Category comedy, film reviews · Tags A Happening of Monumental Proportions, Allison Janney, Anders Holm, Bradley Whitford, Common, Gary Lundy, Jennifer Garner, Judy Greer, Katie Holmes, Lola Glaudini, Marcus Eckert, Marla Sokoloff, Nat Faxon, Rob Riggle, Storm Reid
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 2, 2017 · Leave a Comment
“Quality drives profitability” Let’s be real: every Steven Spielberg film is a must-see, hype-driving machine. He’s a cinematic giant who rarely chooses a project to direct without extreme enthusiasm and artistic purpose (whether the result proves timeless or not). But no one could be blamed for letting excitement crescendo higher than usual upon hearing about […]
Category biography, drama, film reviews · Tags Bob Odenkirk, Bradley Whitford, Bruce Greenwood, Carrie Coon, David Cross, Jesse Plemons, Josh Singer, Liz Hannah, Matthew Rhys, Meryl Streep, Pat Healy, Sarah Paulson, Steven Spielberg, The Post, Tom Hanks, Tracy Letts, Zach Woods
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 4, 2017 · Leave a Comment
“Magic isn’t real” If you ever watched “Key & Peele” you’d know the line between comedy and horror is very fine. Their sketches would often devolve into a horrific situation that you’d have to cry about if you weren’t already laughing. I think of “Aerobics Meltdown” where there’s this hilarious conceit of Keegan-Michael Key and […]
Category film reviews, horror, z.slideshow · Tags Allison Williams, Betty Gabriel, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones, Catherine Keener, Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out, Jordan Peele, Keegan Michael Key, Keith Stanfield, Key & Peele, Marcus Henderson
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 12, 2015 · Leave a Comment
“Remember: they can kill you, but they can’t eat you” The opening to Marc Abraham‘s I Saw the Light holds a lot of intrigue. Based on Colin Escott‘s biography about hillbilly legend Hank Williams, the start goes from a faux black and white newsreel interview with producer Fred Rose (Bradley Whitford) recounting how one-of-a-kind the […]
Category biography, drama, film features, film festival, film reviews, musical/concert, toronto international film festival · Tags Behind the Music, Bradley Whitford, Cherry Jones, Colin Escott, Elizabeth Olsen, Hank Williams, I Saw the Light, Maddie Hasson, Marc Abraham, TIFF, Tom Hiddleston, Toronto International Film Festival, Wrenn Schmidt
Posted by Jared Mobarak on May 17, 2014 · Leave a Comment
“Learn to count” If Item 47 supplying us an expanded look at alien tech from The Avengers was the first step in making Marvel’s One-Shots a legitimate canonical extension, Agent Carter cements them as requisite viewing. There was no guarantee the short would lead to an eight-episode pick-up on ABC—heck, there wasn’t even a guarantee […]
Category action/adventure, film reviews, shorts · Tags Agent Carter, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., B.J. Britt, Bradley Whitford, Captain America: The First Avenger, Derek Luke, Dominic Cooper, Eric Pearson, Hayley Atwell, Item 47, Kenneth Choi, Louis D'Esposito, Marvel One-Shot, Neal McDonough, The Avengers
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 5, 2013 · Leave a Comment
“A leisurely stroll is a gift” If you thought Mary Poppins couldn’t get more uplifting in its journey towards giving two young children the love they always desired from their downtrodden dad, Saving Mr. Banks will prove you wrong. Utilizing a script by Kelly Marcel (a second credit was later added to Sue Smith) that […]
Category biography, comedy, drama, film reviews · Tags Annie Rose Buckley, B.J. Novak, Bradley Whitford, Colin Farrell, Emma Thompson, Jason Schwartzman, John Lee Hancock, Kelly Marcel, Mary Poppins, Paul Giamatti, Rachel Griffiths, Ruth Wilson, Saving Mr. Banks, Sue Smith, The Blind Side, Tom Hanks
Posted by Jared Mobarak on April 13, 2012 · 4 Comments
“He has the husband bulge” After reading all the Twitter hoopla and angry comments about spoilers, I thought The Cabin in the Woods was going to have some amazing, unforeseen twist to do more than just bend genres like we all knew it would. I made sure to avoid all reviews and news, retaining my […]
Category film reviews, horror, science fiction · Tags Amy Acker, Anna Hutchison, Bradley Whitford, Brian White, Chris Hemsworth, Drew Goddard, Fran Kranz, Friday the 13th, Jesse Williams, Joss Whedon, Kristen Connolly, M. Night Shyamalan, Richard Jenkins, The Cabin in the Woods, The Village, Tim De Zarn, Unbreakable
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