Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 24, 2012 · Leave a Comment
“He is a hunter” Anything trying to capitalize on the now waning “Glee” craze and Step Up‘s surprising staying power probably should be dismissed sight unseen. How could a film dealing with the catty rivalries of the a cappella world be anything but an eye-rolling waste of celluloid? This is probably exactly what Universal Pictures […]
Category comedy, film reviews, musical/concert · Tags 30 Rock, Adam DeVine, Alexis Knapp, Anna Camp, Anna Kendrick, B.o.B, Ben Platt, Best in Show, Blackstreet, Brittany Snow, Bruno Mars, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Elizabeth Banks, Ester Dean, Fired Up!, Glee, Hana Mae Lee, Jamie Cullum, Jason Moore, John Michael Higgins, Kay Cannon, Mickey Rapkin, Nicki Minaj, Pitch Perfect, Rebel Wilson, Simple Minds, Skylar Astin, Step Up, The Bangles, Utkarsh Ambudkar
Posted by Jared Mobarak on July 19, 2011 · Leave a Comment
“Shut up Katherine Heigl, you stupid liar” I refuse to call it a romantic comedy. Yes, there are clichés, there’s love, some sex, and a little bit of heart, but Friends with Benefits is not just the sum of those parts. It is a raunchy buddy comedy that excels despite its genre’s limitations, a fun, […]
Category comedy, film reviews, romance · Tags *NSYNC, Andy Samberg, Bad Teacher, Easy A, Emma Stone, Fired Up!, Friends with Benefits, Justin Timberlake, Kris Kross, Mila Kunis, No Strings Attached, Patricia Clarkson, Pretty Woman, Richard Jenkins, Shaun White, Will Gluck, Woody Harrelson
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 3, 2010 · Leave a Comment
“The Accelerated Velocity of Terminological Inexactitude” Who knew Huck Finn had such homosexual overtones? And who knew Easy A—a film I now regret not having caught at its TIFF debut three months ago, dismissing it as a low-brow tween comedy—would be such a great film? Director Will Gluck has just cemented himself as a guy […]
Category comedy, film reviews, romance · Tags Alyson Michalka, Amanda Bynes, Bert V. Royal, Dan Byrd, Easy A, Emma Stone, Fired Up!, John Hughes, Lisa Kudrow, Malcolm McDowell, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Patricia Clarkson, Penn Badgley, Stanley Tucci, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Scarlet Letter, Thomas Haden Church, Will Gluck
Posted by Jared Mobarak on January 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment
This list is accurate as of post-date. So many films and not enough time to see them all, the potential for future change is inevitable, but as of today here are the best … Another year gone, another 100+ releases down. 2009 was one that included a lot of good directors and some great ensemble […]
Category essays, top 10 films · Tags (500) Days of Summer, 35 Rhums, 35 Shots of Rum, A Serious Man, A Single Man, Avatar, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Black Dynamite, Broken Embraces, Chi bi xia: Jue zhan tian xia, Claire Denis, Coco avant Chanel, Coco Before Chanel, Coen Brothers, Colin Firth, Crazy Heart, Das weiße Band, Dave Eggers, David Lynch, Duncan Jones, Fired Up!, George Clooney, Inglourious Basterds, Isaach De Bankolé, James Cameron, Jason Reitman, Jim Jarmusch, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Julia, Kathryn Bigelow, Le silence de Lorna, Lluís Homar, Lorna’s Silence, Los abrazos rotos, Lymelife, Marc Webb, Maurice Sendak, Michael Haneke, Moon, Pedro Almodóvar, Penélope Cruz, Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino, Red Cliff 2, Sam Rockwell, Sin Nombre, Spike Jonze, Sugar, Sunshine Cleaning, The Hurt Locker, The Last Station, The Limits of Control, The White Ribbon, Tom Ford, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Two Lovers, Tyson, Up, Up in the Air, Where the Wild Things Are, Zombieland, Zooey Deschanel
Posted by Jared Mobarak on February 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment
“No, science is awesome” I will admit it first off, I dreaded this day—the day I was going to sit down and watch Fired Up! It’s a film about two high school football jocks that decide to go to cheer camp and attempt to make headway in an untapped market of females. Now when I […]
Category comedy, film reviews · Tags Adhir Kalyan, Bring It On, David Walton, Elisha Dushku, Eric Christian Olsen, Even Stevens, Fired Up!, Hamlet 2, Jesse Bradford, John Michael Higgins, Juliette Goglia, Kirsten Dunst, Margo Harshman, National Lampoon's Animal House, Nicholas D’Agosto, Philip Baker Hall, Sarah Roemer, Wedding Crashers, Will Gluck
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