Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 28, 2019 · Leave a Comment
“Let’s get ready for Duuuumboooo” We’re a long way away from 1941 and the days of pure frivolity in your animated films are over. That’s why Disney evolved their glorified sing-along The Jungle Book into a weighty dramatic adventure and why their sweet little flying elephant Dumbo can no longer sustain himself as a metaphorical […]
Category family, fantasy, film reviews · Tags Colin Farrell, Danny DeVito, Dumbo, Ehren Kruger, Eva Green, Finley Hobbins, Harold Pearl, Helen Aberson, Joseph Gatt, Michael Keaton, Nico Parker, Tim Burton
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 2, 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 20000 Days on Earth, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, and company, Blood & Chocolate, Born to Fly, Christoph Waltz, Cold Open, Desi Moore, Divergent, Emily Browning, Eva Green, Frank Ockenfels, God Help the Girl, Hannah Murray, Honeymoon, Ignition, James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Jimmy Smits, Kevin Smith, Kirsten Dunst, Mélanie Thierry, Memphis, Nick Cave, NYPD Blue, Olly Alexander, P+A, Palaceworks, ParaNorman, Robert Longo, Rose Leslie, Terry Gilliam, The Boxtrolls, The Counselor, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, The Guest, The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner, The Refinery, The Two Faces of January, The Zero Theorem, Tusk, Viggo Mortensen, Willis Earl Beal
Posted by Jared Mobarak on August 1, 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 Akiko Stehrenberger, Andy Warhol, As Above So Below, Aubrey Plaza, AV Squad, Blood & Chocolate, BLT Communications LLC, Brendan Gleeson, Bruce Willis, Calvary, Chadwick Boseman, Corey Feldman, Dakota Fanning, Dane DeHaan, Dave Bautista, Elisabeth Moss, Empire Design, Eva Green, Francesco Francavilla, Frank Miller, Frank Ockenfels, Get On Up, Gravillis Inc., Guardians of the Galaxy, Ignition, Jack O'Connell, James Brown, Jeff Bridges, Jessica Alba, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kevin Tong, Life After Beth, Mark Duplass, Meryl Streep, Michael Muller, Mickey Rourke, Phantom City Creative, Randy Ortiz, Rico Torres, Robert De Niro, Robert Rodriguez, Sin City, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, Starred Up, Stoker, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Expendables 2, The Expendables 3, The Giver, The Last of Robin Hood, The One I Love, The Wolverine, Troublemaker Studios, Tyler Stout, Union+Webster, Vanilla Ice, WORKS ADV
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 3, 2014 · Leave a Comment
“Fear his freedom!” This is what a copy of a copy looks like. It pretends to be equal to the original—and in some aspects proves to be exactly the same—yet arrives seven years after everything its groundbreaking ancestor provided was expanded and evolved upon. I loved 300 and gave it a perfect score despite some […]
Category action/adventure, fantasy, film reviews, war · Tags 300, 300: Rise of an Empire, David Wenham, Eva Green, Frank Miller, Gerard Butler, Kurt Johnstad, Lena Headey, nine inch nails, Noam Murro, Peter Mensah, Rodrigo Santoro, Sin City, Spartacus, Sullivan Stapleton, Zack Snyder
Posted by Jared Mobarak on May 8, 2012 · Leave a Comment
“You’ll have to imagine us on a better day” At present, the Tim Burton discussion can be answered in two ways. One: I’ve become too old and jaded to ‘get’ the farcical nature of the auteur’s darkly comic worlds anymore. The satiric tongue-in-cheek tonality he so brilliantly cultivated in grotesque-lite universes either doesn’t have the […]
Category comedy, fantasy, film reviews, horror · Tags Alice Cooper, Beetlejuice, Bella Heathcote, Big Fish, Chloë Grace Moretz, Dark Shadows, Edward Scissorhands, Eva Green, Gulliver McGrath, Helena Bonham Carter, Jackie Earle Haley, John August, Johnny Depp, Jonny Lee Miller, Michelle Pfeiffer, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahame-Smith, The Carpenters, The Moody Blues, Tim Burton
Posted by Jared Mobarak on January 29, 2012 · 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 Act of Valor, Amanda Seyfried, ARSONAL, Band of Brothers, Blood & Chocolate, BLT & Associates, Chronicle, Concept Arts, Daniel Radcliffe, David Mackenzie, Denzel Washington, Diane Reynolds-Nash, Dwayne Johnson, Eva Green, Ewan McGregor, Ghost Rider, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Gone, Good Deeds, Gravillis Inc., Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Ignition Print, Jennifer Aniston, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, Kill List, Liam Neeson, Madea's Big Happy Family, Michael Caine, Midnight Oil Creative, Olly Moss, OTMentertain, Paranormal Activity, Paul Rudd, Perfect Sense, Psycho, Pulse Advertising, Pursuit of Happyness, Restrepo, Ryan Reynolds, Safe House, Saw, The Blair Witch Project, The Borrowers, The Cimarron Group, The Innkeepers, The Secret World of Arrietty, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1, The Vow, The Woman in Black, The World is Not Enough, Tom Hodge, Tyler Perry, Vox and Associates, Wanderlust, WORKS ADV, Young Adam
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 30, 2009 · Leave a Comment
“Without faith, it’s difficult to be controlled” Blind faith in God can lead to two outcomes; it’s either a way to accept an event and seek the good that can come from tragedy or a springboard to absolute atheism once you realize an event like that which has transpired can’t occur in a world where […]
Category drama, fantasy, film reviews · Tags Bernard Hill, Dark City, Eva Green, Franklyn, Gerald McMorrow, Jacob’s Ladder, James Faulkner, Ryan Phillippe, Sam Riley
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 14, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Every year at the Toronto International Film Festival seems to get better and better. Is that due to the increase in films from six to eleven to fifteen? It very well might be. And I’ll just say now, watching fifteen films in less than four days may not be the healthiest thing in the world. […]
Category essays, film features, film festival, toronto international film festival · Tags A Serious Man, Abbie Cornish, Adam Brody, Agora, Alejandro Amenábar, An Education, Antichrist, Away We Go, Ben Whishaw, Bright Star, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Cormac McCarthy, Cracks, Cremaster, Daybreakers, Diablo Cody, Elizabethtown, Enter the Void, Equilibrium, Ethan Hawke, Eva Green, Face, Fanny Ardant, Gaspar Noé, George Clooney, Irreversible, Jane Campion, Jason Reitman, Jennifer’s Body, John Hillcoat, John Holmes, Jordan Scott, Juno, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Lars and the Real Girl, Lars von Trier, Like You Know It All, Lone Scherfig, Mads Mikkelsen, Mar adentro, Margot at the Wedding, Matt Damon, Matthew Barney, Max Minghella, Megan Fox, Michael Haneke, Ming-liang Tsai, Nick Hornby, Nicolas Winding Refn, Paul Schneider, Rachel Weisz, Ridley Scott, Robert Duvall, Sam Neill, Scott Z. Burns, Spierig Brothers, Steven Soderbergh, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Informant!, The Others, The Piano, The Proposition, The Road, The White Ribbon, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival, Undead, Up in the Air, Valhalla Rising, Viggo Mortensen, Visage, Willem Dafoe, [Rec] 2
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment
“The most important thing in life is desire” It is time to welcome a new member into the Scott family of filmmakers. Ridley’s daughter Jordan Scott has arrived with Cracks, a story about a British boarding school and the activities that occur within, based on a novel by Sheila Kohler. Scott spoke of how growing […]
Category drama, film features, film festival, film reviews, toronto international film festival · Tags Cracks, Eva Green, Imogen Poots, Jordan Scott, Juno Temple, Lord of the Flies, María Valverde, Ridley Scott, Sheila Kohler
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 10, 2007 · Leave a Comment
“Just a small little cut” I have thought that Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy would make some very interesting films ever since I read them almost a decade ago. The fantasy and utter intrigue that they instilled in me never left my consciousness. When I heard that American Pie director Chris Weitz would be […]
Category action/adventure, family, fantasy, film reviews · Tags About a Boy, American Pie, Chris Weitz, Dakota Blue Richards, Daniel Craig, Eva Green, His Dark Materials, Ian McKellen, Ian McShane, Nicole Kidman, Philip Pullman, Sam Elliott, The Golden Compass
Posted by Jared Mobarak on November 17, 2006 · Leave a Comment
“Shaken or stirred?” I am not a very big action movie fan. Explosions, violence, and sex don’t make a good movie unless there is some semblance of a story involved. Therefore, I’ve never really had an interest in watching the twenty or so James Bond films. Hearing about the gadgets and the suave hitman persona […]
Category action/adventure, film reviews, suspense/thriller · Tags Casino Royale, Caterina Murino, Daniel Craig, Die Another Day, Eva Green, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Ian Fleming, Isaach De Bankolé, James Bond, Jeffery Wright, Kingdom of Heaven, Layer Cake, Mads Mikkelsen, Manderlay, Paul Haggis, Pierce Brosnan, Return of the King, The Dreamers, The Jacket, The Mother, Tomb Raider
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