Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 7, 2018 · Leave a Comment
“Another announcement. Good God.” I admire what Sally Potter is trying to do with her black comedy The Party as experiment. She’s placed a group of friends with different political, economic, and romantic views into a single room, hanging a secret(s) over their heads with the potential to destroy their individual and communal identities. They’re […]
Category comedy, drama, film reviews · Tags Bruno Ganz, Cherry Jones, Cillian Murphy, Emily Mortimer, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patricia Clarkson, Sally Potter, The Party, Timothy Spall
Posted by Jared Mobarak on July 17, 2017 · Leave a Comment
“He may never be himself again” War is often depicted as a quantifiable number of those who survived and those who did not. Many films choose this route, picking a battle to show the firefight’s chaos and cost. We remember the Battle of Gettysburg and D-Day as turning points, insane offensives that wrought heavy casualties […]
Category action/adventure, drama, film reviews, war, z.slideshow · Tags Aneurin Barnard, Barry Keoghan, Christopher Nolan, Cillian Murphy, Dunkirk, Fionn Whitehead, Harry Styles, Jack Lowden, Mark Rylance, Tom Glynn-Carney, Tom Hardy
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 9, 2016 · Leave a Comment
“Talk about a fucking sledgehammer to crack a nut” TIFF’s Colin Geddes was correct when introducing Ben Wheatley‘s bottle episode of a film Free Fire with the words: “This will wake you up.” The gunfire alone risks perforating your eardrums as John Denver blares from a 1978-era van’s eight-track, but I think it’s the surprising […]
Category action/adventure, film features, film festival, film reviews, toronto international film festival · Tags Amy Jump, Armie Hammer, Babou Ceesay, Ben Wheatley, Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Colin Geddes, Enzo Cilenti, Free Fire, Jack Reynor, Michael Smiley, Noah Taylor, Reservoir Dogs, Sam Riley, Sharlto Copley, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival
Posted by Jared Mobarak on April 15, 2014 · Leave a Comment
“They say there’s power in Boston” With a trailer digitizing Johnny Depp and electronic machinery created out of thin air, it’s an understatement to say I was surprised the beginning of Transcendence introduced a world without power. I thought the film was about new technology and the advancement of artificial intelligence harboring a potential for […]
Category drama, film reviews, science fiction, suspense/thriller · Tags Cillian Murphy, Jack Paglen, Johnny Depp, Kate Mara, Morgan Freeman, Paul Bettany, Person of Interest, Rebecca Hall, Revolution, The Terminator, Transcendence, Wally Pfister, Xander Berkeley
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 7, 2012 · Leave a Comment
“Your mind can be spent even if your body’s not” A watered-down Gattaca from the same creative mind, Andrew Niccol‘s In Time takes his human story of survival onto a global level. Rather than watch one man succeed in following an unattainable dream by taking the charity of another no longer wanting the gifts he […]
Category action/adventure, film reviews, science fiction · Tags Alex Pettyfer, Amanda Seyfried, Andrew Niccol, Cillian Murphy, Gattaca, In Time, Johnny Galecki, Justin Timberlake, Matt Bomer, Olivia Wilde, Vincent Kartheiser
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 26, 2010 · Leave a Comment
“Like bio-digital jazz, man” It’s twenty years later and I’m still not quite sure how anyone would think a big budget blockbuster taking place inside a computer mainframe could feasibly be seen as profitable, yet Disney has done it once more. 1982 saw TRON unleashed upon the world with an aesthetic way ahead of its […]
Category action/adventure, film reviews, science fiction · Tags Anis Cheurfa, Beau Garrett, Bruce Boxleitner, Cillian Murphy, Daft Punk, Garrett Hedlund, James Frain, Jeff Bridges, Joseph Kosinski, Michael Sheen, Olivia Wilde, Star Wars, The Black Hole, TRON, TRON: Legacy
Posted by Jared Mobarak on July 7, 2008 · Leave a Comment
“I warned you about compassion” In anticipation for the new film The Dark Knight, I found it time to revisit the one that relaunched the franchise—Batman Begins. With an all-star cast and Christopher Nolan at the helm, everything seemed to be in place for a true telling reminiscent of the latter day comic books starring […]
Category action/adventure, film reviews · Tags Adam West, Batman Begins, Christian Bale, Christopher Nolan, Cillian Murphy, Gary Oldman, Katie Holmes, Ken Watanabe, Liam Neeson, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, The Bourne Identity, The Dark Knight, Tom Wilkinson
Posted by Jared Mobarak on July 27, 2007 · 2 Comments
“When he chooses for us to die, it is not our place to challenge God” I love Danny Boyle’s work. Sure I haven’t seen The Beach or Shallow Grave, but I can’t see myself thinking they will be anything less than fantastic because he has never let me down. The man has spanned genres and […]
Category film reviews, science fiction, suspense/thriller · Tags 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alex Garland, Benedict Wong, Chris Evans, Cillian Murphy, Danny Boyle, Event Horizon, Fantastic Four, Hiroyuki Sanada, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne, Shallow Grave, Sphere, Sunshine, The Beach, Troy Garity
Posted by Jared Mobarak on May 15, 2007 · Leave a Comment
“Code Red” This was definitely a film that I didn’t see any necessity for. 28 Days Later was a fantastic genre film whose main success was not really being the film people expected it to be. What worked there was that we were able to wake up into the world just as our main character […]
Category film reviews, horror, science fiction · Tags 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, Aliens, Cillian Murphy, Danny Boyle, Harold Perrineau, Imogen Poots, Jeremy Renner, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Mackintosh Muggleton, Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Underworld: Evolution
Posted by Jared Mobarak on May 12, 2007 · Leave a Comment
“That was longer than a heartbeat” In anticipation for the sequel 28 Weeks Later, I decided to revisit the superb zombie entry 28 Days Later from director Danny Boyle. I remember back to when I first started hearing the buzz about this film and how surprised I was that it came from the guy who […]
Category drama, film reviews, horror, science fiction · Tags 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, A Life Less Ordinary, Brendan Gleeson, Christopher Eccleston, Cillian Murphy, Danny Boyle, Megan Burns, Naomie Harris, Trainspotting
Posted by Jared Mobarak on May 8, 2007 · 1 Comment
“I try to get out and can’t” Very few war movies will actually give you an insight into the men and the ideas that are being fought for. Usually we will be shown carnage and battle or at least, amidst the strive, a substory about soldiers rallying together in order to save someone. Some of […]
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