Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 31, 2019 · Leave a Comment
If you asked me in 2010 which studios’ films would be amongst my favorites over the next ten years, I probably would have answered two correctly: Fox Searchlight (11) and Sony Pictures Classics (7). Those are two independent shingles of big Hollywood names that have been pumping out quality pictures for decades. Next up would […]
Category essays, top 10 films, top 10 lists, z.slideshow · Tags 12 Years a Slave, 50/50, A Quiet Passion, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, American Animals, Aniara, Arrival, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Black Swan, Blue Valentine, Bullhead, Call Me By Your Name, Calvary, Carlos, Carol, Cloud Atlas, Coherence, Custody, Dunkirk, Enemy, Ex Machina, First Man, For Sama, Frances Ha, Fruitvale Station, Fury, Get Out, Hell or High Water, Hellion, Her, High-Rise, Holy Motors, Honey Boy, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, I Am Love, I Am Not Your Negro, If Beale Street Could Talk, Inception, Inch'Allah, Inside Out, Intouchables, It Comes at Night, Jackie, James White, Lady Macbeth, Leave No Trace, Looper, Luce, Mad Max: Fury Road, Madeline's Madeline, Manchester by the Sea, Marriage Story, Melancholia, Midnight in Paris, Minding the Gap, Moonlight, Mudbound, Never Let Me Go, Oslo August 31st, ParaNorman, Parasite, Pariah, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Rabbit Hole, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Selma, Shame, Short Term 12, Son of Saul, Sound of My Voice, Spotlight, Spring, Spring Breakers, Steve Jobs, The Act of Killing, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, The Farewell, The Fighter, The Hunt, The Master, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Social Network, The Standoff at Sparrow Creek, The Tree of Life, The Witch, The Wolf of Wall Street, Thelma, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Toni Erdmann, Transit, Under the Skin, Upstream Color, Waves, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Whiplash, Wild Tales, Wildlife, Wonderstruck, You Were Never Really Here
Posted by Jared Mobarak on January 7, 2019 · Leave a Comment
We pretty much knew last year’s Best Picture Oscars race was coming down to La La Land and Moonlight right after the completion of the Toronto International Film Festival in September. But while there’s something to be said about the strength of films able to ascend to frontrunner position, I can’t help loving the idea […]
Category essays, top 10 films · Tags A Fantastic Woman, A Quiet Passion, Algee Smith, Armie Hammer, C'est la vie, Call Me By Your Name, Christian Bale, Christopher Nolan, Clair Obscur, Coco, Cynthia Nixon, Daniel Kaluuya, Daniela Vega, Dee Rees, Despicable Me 3, Dunkirk, Edgar Wright, Frances McDormand, Get Out, Guillermo del Toro, Holly Hunter, Hong Chau, It Comes at Night, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jane, Jason Mitchell, Lady Macbeth, Last Men in Aleppo, Laurie Metcalf, Loving Vincent, Meryl Streep, Mudbound, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Octavia Spencer, Princesita, Rebecca Hall, Sally Hawkins, Sam Rockwell, Split, Strong Island, The Breadwinner, The Shape of Water, The Work, Thelma, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Timothée Chalamet, Todd Haynes, Unrest, Willem Dafoe, Wonderstruck
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 5, 2018 · Leave a Comment
If you thought this year’s Oscars were going to do something crazy or exciting, you haven’t been paying attention. Between the envelope-gate incident of 2017 and the fact that this was a “multiple of ten” anniversary, the 90th Annual Academy Awards was going to do everything it could to right the ship and ensure nothing […]
Category essays, oscars, z.slideshow · Tags A Fantastic Woman, Academy Awards, Alex Gibson, Alexandre Desplat, Allison Janney, Blade Runner 2049, Bryan Fogel, Call Me By Your Name, Chris Overton, Coco, Dan Cogan, Darkest Hour, Darla K. Anderson, David Malinowski, Dear Basketball, Dunkirk, Frances McDormand, Frank Stiefel, Gary A. Rizzo, Gary Oldman, Gerd Nefzer, Get Out, Glen Keane, Gregg Landaker, Guillermo del Toro, Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405, Icarus, J. Miles Dale, James Ivory, Jeffrey A. Melvin, Jimmy Kimmel, John Nelson, Jordan Peele, Kazuhiro Tsuji, Kobe Bryant, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Lee Smith, Lee Unkrich, Lucy Sibbick, Mark Bridges, Mark Weingarten, Oscars, Paul Denham Austerberry, Paul Lambert, Phantom Thread, Rachel Shenton, Richard King, Richard R. Hoover, Robert Lopez, Sam Rockwell, Shane Vieau, The Shape of Water, The Silent Child, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
Posted by Jared Mobarak on February 27, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The 90th Annual Academy Awards hits airwaves Sunday, March 4th, 2018 at 8:00pm on ABC. For those handicapping at home, here are the guesses of Buffalo film fanatics Christopher Schobert, William Altreuter, and myself. Jared Mobarak: This new look Academy is really starting to pay dividends. The fight for representation might have begun with a […]
Category essays, oscars, z.slideshow · Tags Aaron Sorkin, Allison Janney, Call Me By Your Name, Christopher Nolan, Christopher Plummer, Daniel Day Lewis, Daniel Kaluuya, Darkest Hour, Dee Rees, Denzel Washington, Dunkirk, Emily V. Gordon, Frances McDormand, Gary Oldman, Get Out, Greta Gerwig, Guillermo del Toro, James Ivory, James Mangold, Jordan Peele, Kumail Nanjiani, Lady Bird, Laurie Metcalf, Lesley Manville, Margot Robbie, Martin McDonagh, Mary J. Blige, Meryl Streep, Michael Green, Michael H. Weber, Octavia Spencer, Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread, Richard Jenkins, Sally Hawkins, Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan, Scott Frank, Scott Neustadter, The Post, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Timothée Chalamet, Vanessa Taylor, Virgil Williams, Willem Dafoe, Woody Harrelson
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 24, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Below is my December 24th ballot for the 21st annual Online Film Critics Society Awards honoring movies released domestically in the United States during the 2017 calendar year. Group winners are highlighted in red. (We were only allowed to vote for one nominee per category this year, but I ranked them all like previous years […]
Category essays, top 10 films, z.slideshow · Tags A Ghost Story, Aaron Sorkin, Allison Janney, Armie Hammer, Benny Safdie, BPM (Beats Per Minute), Brooklynn Prince, Call Me By Your Name, Christopher Nolan, Coco, Cynthia Nixon, Dafne Keen, Dan Laustsen, Daniel Kaluuya, Darius Khondji, Dawson City: Frozen Time, Dunkirk, Ex Libris: New York Public Library, Faces Places, First They Killed My Father, Frances McDormand, Gary Oldman, Get Out, Greta Gerwig, Guillermo del Toro, Holly Hunter, Hoyte Van Hoytema, In This Corner of the World, James Franco, James Gray, James Ivory, Jane, Jonathan Amos, Jordan Peele, Lady Bird, Laurie Metcalf, Lee Smith, Loving Vincent, Margot Robbie, Mary J. Blige, Michael H. Weber, Michael Stuhlbarg, Mother, Mudbound, Nocturama, OFCS, Online Film Critics Society, Patrick Stewart, Paul Machliss, Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread, Rachel Morrison, Raw, Richard Jenkins, Robert Pattinson, Roger Deakins, Ronald Bronstein, Sally Hawkins, Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan, Scott Neustadter, Sidney Wolinsky, Sofia Coppola, Tatiana S. Riegel, The Breadwinner, The Florida Project, The LEGO Batman Movie, The Post, The Shape of Water, The Square, The Work, Thelma, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Tiffany Haddish, Timothée Chalamet, Vanessa Taylor
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
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