Posted by Jared Mobarak on October 1, 2018 · Leave a Comment
“Better now than later” An explosion, crash, confused man, and burning plane: this is the sequence of images as Rodrigo García‘s Passengers commences. It’s a pretty straightforward visual set-up for the incident everything else will surround before his lead (Anne Hathaway‘s Dr. Claire Summers) is introduced during the next scene. She’s a trauma counselor enlisted […]
Category drama, fantasy, film reviews, horror · Tags Andre Braugher, Andrew Wheeler, Anne Hathaway, Chelah Horsdal, Clea Duvall, David Morse, Dianne Wiest, Don Thompson, Passengers, Patrick Wilson, Rodrigo García, Ronnie Christensen, Ryan Robbins
Posted by Jared Mobarak on January 13, 2016 · Leave a Comment
“Tell the truth” As of September of 2015 it was reported that 87 former NFL players tested positive for chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) out of the 91 deceased men researchers at Boston University autopsied. That’s almost 96%. Their study revealed that 79% of all players (professionally, semi-professionally, or college/high school athletes) examined had it—damning numbers […]
Category biography, drama, film reviews, sports · Tags Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Albert Brooks, Alec Baldwin, Arliss Howard, Concussion, David Morse, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Hill Harper, Jeanne Marie Laskas, Luke Wilson, Matthew Willig, Mike O'Malley, Peter Landesman, Richard T. Jones, Will Smith
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 3, 2014 · Leave a Comment
“Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact impressionable souls will do so without fail. This monthly column focuses on the film industry’s willingness to capitalize on this truth, releasing one-sheets to serve as not representations of what audiences are to expect, but as propaganda to fill […]
Category film features, posterized propaganda · Tags 3 Days to Kill, 300, 300: Rise of an Empire, Aaron Paul, Art Machine A Trailer Park Company, Bad Words, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Billy Crudup, Blood Ties, BLT Communications LLC, BOND, Cardinal Communications USA, Carlos, Clash of the Titans, Clive Owen, Cold Open, Concept Arts, Cory Monteith, Darren Aronofsky, David Morse, Divergent, Dominic Cooper, Eclipse, Ed Harris, Elijah Wood, Enemy, Grand Piano, ImageMassive, Imogen Poots, It Felt Like Love, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jason Bateman, Jeff Maunoury, Jim Broadbent, Jim Henson, Jodorowsky’s Dune, KiD CuDi, Kilian Eng, Lars von Trier, Le Week-End, Lindsay Duncan, McCanick, MIDNIGHT OIL, Modern Family, Mojo, Mondo Tees, Moonrise Kingdom, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, Muppets Most Wanted, Need for Speed, Noah, Nymphomaniac: Volume I, P+A, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, Proof, Ricky Gervais, Roger Michell, Rohan Chand, Russell Crowe, Sam Smith, Spartacus, Sullivan Stapleton, The American, The Bourne Identity, The Einstein Couple, The Face of Love, The Fast and the Furious, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Muppets, The Refinery, The Shining, The Wizard of Oz, Tina Fey, Tony Revolori, Ty Burrell, Wes Anderson, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 29, 2009 · 1 Comment
“That’s spoken like a wild man” While reading about the new Kathryn Bigelow film The Hurt Locker, I found it very interesting that people were saying how it really doesn’t have an anti-war sentiment. I was always under the impression that it would be another liberal propaganda-driven message movie like all the others coming out […]
Category film reviews, war · Tags Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, David Morse, Guy Pearce, Jarhead, Jeremy Renner, Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Ralph Fiennes, Strange Days, The Hurt Locker
Posted by Jared Mobarak on April 13, 2007 · Leave a Comment
“Coffee and donuts” I understand that the new movie Disturbia is about a person who is unable to leave his room and must look out the window for entertainment. During his peeping sessions, he finds that his neighbor might be a killer and by doing so, tries to get everyone around him to help find […]
Category film reviews, suspense/thriller · Tags Aaron Yoo, Alfred Hitchcock, D.J. Caruso, Dancer in the Dark, David Morse, Disturbia, Down in the Valley, Even Stevens, Rear Window, Sarah Roemer, Shia LaBeouf, Taking Lives, The Salton Sea, The Shield, Two for the Money
Posted by Jared Mobarak on April 5, 2007 · Leave a Comment
“I invited Tex to the beach” I’m not quite sure exactly how I felt about Down in the Valley. At many times I thought it was a gorgeous film, shot perfectly, but at others I felt uncomfortable and shocked. We are given a love story between a troubled young man and a high school girl […]
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