Posted by Jared Mobarak on July 9, 2019 · Leave a Comment
“I want to be what intimidates me” There was definite trepidation upon learning writer/director Riley Stearns‘ follow-up to Faults would be a comedy. That’s not to say his debut wasn’t funny, however. It was. But where its humor arrived from the matter-of-fact nature of the characterizations he utilized to turn his tale of cult deprogramming […]
Category comedy, drama, fantasia international film festival, film features, film festival, film reviews · Tags Alessandro Nivola, Fantasia International Film Festival, Imogen Poots, Jesse Eisenberg, Riley Stearns, The Art of Self-Defense
Posted by Jared Mobarak on August 12, 2018 · Leave a Comment
“I don’t hurt people” The only thing worse than never getting your happy ending is having it within grasp and realizing you cannot accept it. To see salvation and turn around knowing it would be a lie is the type of heartbreaking choice we often have to make in order to keep on going. It’s […]
Category buffalo international film festival, drama, film features, film festival, film reviews · Tags A.J. Edwards, BIFF, Buffalo International Film Festival, Caleb Landry Jones, Friday's Child, Imogen Poots, Jeffrey Wright, Tye Sheridan
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 13, 2018 · Leave a Comment
“We’re stronger than we think” While the main creative force behind I Kill Giants is unquestionably screenwriter Joe Kelly (whose limited comic series of the same name alongside artist J.M. Ken Niimura is the basis for his script), director Anders Walter‘s Oscar-winning short Helium shows he’s hardly a stranger to its subject matter. These two […]
Category drama, family, fantasy, film reviews, suspense/thriller · Tags Anders Walter, I Kill Giants, Imogen Poots, J.M. Ken Niimura, Joe Kelly, Madison Wolfe, Sydney Wade, Zoë Saldana
Posted by Jared Mobarak on May 5, 2016 · Leave a Comment
“The energy doesn’t last” It’s official: Jeremy Saulnier‘s Blue Ruin was no fluke. That pulse-pounding thriller wowed audiences a couple years ago with good reason and his follow-up Green Room only advances that success further. It’s as though he looked upon the climax of his 2014 gem and wondered what it’d be like to mold […]
Category film reviews, suspense/thriller · Tags Alia Shawkat, Anton Yelchin, Assault on Precinct 13, Blue Ruin, Callum Turner, Eric Edelstein, Green Room, Imogen Poots, Jeremy Saulnier, Joe Cole, Macon Blair, Mark Webber, Panic Room, Patrick Stewart, The Purge, You’re Next
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 31, 2016 · Leave a Comment
“You’re still the love of my life. Should I tell you that?” The evolution of Terrence Malick is a fascinating one. From regular narrative structure to voiceover-driven epics to visual poems, his style has been stripped down to beautiful imagery and pithily obtuse dialogue sending us on journeys as much about ourselves as they are […]
Category drama, film reviews, romance · Tags Antonio Banderas, Brian Dennehy, Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale, Emmanuel Lubezki, Freida Pinto, Imogen Poots, Isabel Lucas, Knight of Cups, Natalie Portman, Teresa Palmer, Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life, Thomas Lennon, To the Wonder, Wes Bentley
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 September 7, 2013 · Leave a Comment
“The rest is just painted with a little science fiction” On paper a biopic of Jimi Hendrix without the rights to his music seems like a complete waste of time. Even with John Ridley‘s All Is by My Side detailing the guitarist’s two years prior to the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, the thought of […]
Category biography, drama, film features, film festival, film reviews, toronto international film festival · Tags 12 Years a Slave, All Is by My Side, André Benjamin, Andrew Buckley, Burn Gorman, Cream, Danny McColgan, Hayley Atwell, Imogen Poots, John Ridley, Ruth Negga, Steve McQueen, The Animals, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Rolling Stones, The Shield, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 8, 2012 · Leave a Comment
“You just took a quality violin from a real musician” When the cellist of a world-renowned string quartet discovers early onset Parkinson’s is taking away the dexterity needed to continue playing, the will of the entire group is shaken. Conversations about a replacement, questions about continuing, and attempts to keep their friend’s desire to play […]
Category drama, film features, film festival, film reviews, toronto international film festival · Tags A Late Quartet, Behind the Music, Catherine Keener, Christopher Walken, Fleetwood Mac, Imogen Poots, Liraz Charhi, Mark Ivanir, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Seth Grossman, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival, Yaron Zilberman
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 8, 2011 · Leave a Comment
“We shall root out the wickedness from this small, ungrateful plant” No, the words from friends and family about the dry, dull, laborious task it is to read the Brontë sisters didn’t sway my desire to see Cary Fukunaga’s adaptation of Charlotte’s Jane Eyre. Between my adoration of the director’s previous effort, Sin Nombre; the […]
Category drama, film reviews, romance · Tags Adriano Goldman, Cary Fukunaga, Charlotte Brontë, Dario Marianelli, Imogen Poots, Jamie Bell, Jane Eyre, Joe Wright, Judi Dench, Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Romy Settbon Moore, Sally Hawkins, Sin Nombre
Posted by Jared Mobarak on January 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment
“Out there is nothing but possibilities” Have films embraced the ambiguous ‘does he or doesn’t he’ ending too often recently? I feel bad beginning with that question since I did actually like Solitary Man very much, but liking the whole doesn’t discount the fact that a contrived ‘conversational’ fade to black has gone from bold […]
Category comedy, drama, film reviews · Tags Brian Koppelman, Danny DeVito, David Levien, Imogen Poots, Jake Richard Siciliano, Jenna Fischer, Jesse Eisenberg, Michael Douglas, Olivia Thirlby, Rounders, Solitary Man, Steven Soderbergh, Susan Sarandon, The Girlfriend Experience, Wonder Boys
Posted by Jared Mobarak on November 22, 2010 · 1 Comment
While Jon Favreau may say that 2011 looks to have a bloodbath summer on its hands with blockbusters galore taking 3D screens from each other, I’ll say right now that those aren’t the movies most intriguing me. Next year sees a return for Jack Sparrow, Lightning McQueen, Holmes and Watson, the Witwickys, Ethan Hunt, and, […]
Category essays, top 10 films, top 10 lists · Tags 300, A Dangerous Method, Adam Sandler, Alexander Skarsgård, Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins, Atlas Shrugged, Atlas Shrugged: Part I, Atonement, Ayn Rand, Biutiful, Born to be a Star, Brad Pitt, Captain America: The First Avenger, Cars 2, Cary Fukunaga, Cate Blanchett, Charlotte Brontë, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Chris Hemsworth, Cloverfield, Contagion, Cop Out, Cowboys & Aliens, Damon Lindelof, Daniel Craig, Dark City, David Cronenberg, David Yates, Dennis Hopper, Dogma, Duncan Jones, Edgar Wright, Emily Blunt, Eric Bana, Farrelly Brothers, Flight of the Conchords, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Freida Pinto, George Nolfi, Gus Van Sant, Hall Pass, Hanna, Harrison Ford, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Henry Cavill, Henry Hopper, Immortals, Imogen Poots, Iron Man, J.J. Abrams, James Bobin, Jamie Bell, Jane Eyre, Jason Lew, Jason Segel, Joe Wright, John Hurt, Jon Favreau, Just Go With It, Keira Knightley, Kellan Lutz, Kenneth Branagh, Kevin Smith, Kiefer Sutherland, Kirsten Dunst, Lars von Trier, Lost, Martin Scorsese, Matt Damon, Melancholia, Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Michael Rooker, Mickey Rourke, Milk, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Moon, Natalie Portman, Nick Frost, One Tree Hill, Paul, Paul Johansson, Paul Thomas Anderson, Philip K. Dick, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Red State, Restless, Saoirse Ronan, Scott Z. Burns, Scream 4, Sean Penn, Seth Rogen, Sherlock Holmes 2, Simon Pegg, Sin Nombre, Source Code, Stellan Skarsgård, Stephen Dorff, Stephen McHattie, Steven Soderbergh, Steven Spielberg, Sucker Punch, Super 8, Superman: Man of Steel, Tarsem Singh, Terrence Malick, Terry Gilliam, The Adjustment Bureau, The Green Hornet, The Informant!, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, The Master, The Muppets, The Soloist, The Tree of Life, Thor, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Udo Kier, Viggo Mortensen, Watchmen, Wuthering Heights, X-Men: First Class, Zack Snyder, “The Strike” Productions
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