Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 11, 2019 · Leave a Comment
“What did you do to her?” Hollywood franchise filmmaking really is a frustrating system insofar as allowing good source material room to breathe. That’s not to say it doesn’t sometimes work too, though. Look at Twentieth Century Fox’s cinematic X-Men saga for instance. After hitting a comic book high with X2, the desire for more […]
Category action/adventure, fantasy, film reviews, science fiction · Tags Alexandra Shipp, Chris Claremont, Dark Phoenix, Dave Cockrum, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Jessica Chastain, John Byrne, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult, Simon Kinberg, Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan
Posted by Jared Mobarak on January 15, 2019 · Leave a Comment
“Why are we the only ones?” It began nineteen years ago with a tale about emotional and physical duress—byproducts of tortured lives being led by purportedly “great” men too defeated to reach their full potential until circumstances reveal the power possessed within. M. Night Shyamalan was playing with the notion of superheroes walking the thin […]
Category drama, film reviews, science fiction · Tags Anya Taylor-Joy, Bruce Willis, Charlayne Woodard, Glass, James McAvoy, M. Night Shyamalan, Samuel L. Jackson, Sarah Paulson, Spencer Treat Clark, Split, Unbreakable
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 29, 2018 · Leave a Comment
“Are there no other women in Hampshire?” I had never seen Julian Jarrold‘s Becoming Jane before today and yet my constantly being hit with a sense of familiarity while watching made me question that truth. The reason stems from the fact that screenwriters Kevin Hood and Sarah Williams crafted their tale of young Jane Austen […]
Category biography, drama, film reviews, romance · Tags Anna Maxwell Martin, Anne Hathaway, Becoming Jane, Ian Richardson, James Cromwell, James McAvoy, Jane Austen, Joe Anderson, Jon Spence, Julian Jarrold, Julie Walters, Kevin Hood, Laurence Fox, Lucy Cohu, Maggie Smith, Pride and Prejudice, Sarah Williams
Posted by Jared Mobarak on July 25, 2017 · Leave a Comment
“This is the game” It’s hard to believe that I was thinking the stylish, punishing action of John Wick was being dismantled upon as its stuntmen-turned-directors Chad Stahelski and David Leitch deciding to go solo two years ago. Stahelski would helm John Wick 2, the result proving a worthy follow-up both in aesthetic and mythology […]
Category action/adventure, film reviews, suspense/thriller · Tags Antony Johnston, Atomic Blonde, Bill Skarsgård, Chad Stahelski, Charlize Theron, David Leitch, Eddie Marsan, James Faulkner, James McAvoy, John Goodman, John Wick, Kurt Johnstad, Roland Møller, Sam Hargrave, Sam Hart, Sofia Boutella, The Coldest City, Til Schweiger, Toby Jones
Posted by Jared Mobarak on January 19, 2017 · 2 Comments
“In the sun we find our purpose” It doesn’t get better than The Village where M. Night Shyamalan is concerned. That film was a perfect confluence of his screenwriting and directing capabilities, a tale of love and protection through drastic measures as metaphor for the struggles of parenthood steeped in heavy emotion and guilt without […]
Category film reviews, horror, suspense/thriller · Tags Anya Taylor-Joy, Betty Buckley, Brad William Henke, Haley Lu Richardson, Izzie Coffey, James McAvoy, Jessica Sula, M. Night Shyamalan, Robert Michael Kelly, Split, The Village, Unbreakable
Posted by Jared Mobarak on May 29, 2016 · Leave a Comment
“And from the ashes of their world, we’ll build a better one” At a certain point Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) understands his pupils need more than just help controlling their powers in the X-Men universe. They must also learn to fight. He and Erik Lehnsherr (Michael Fassbender) had no choice but to battle forces of […]
Category action/adventure, fantasy, film reviews, science fiction · Tags Alexandra Shipp, Ben Hardy, Bryan Singer, Evan Peters, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Helman, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Lana Condor, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult, Olivia Munn, Oscar Isaac, Rose Byrne, Simon Kinberg, Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan, X-Men: Apocalypse, X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: First Class
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 May 23, 2014 · Leave a Comment
“Mind the glass” If you have a storyline at your disposal capable of continuing two separate iterations of a single cinematic franchise simultaneously, you’d be a laughing stock not to take it. Credit Fox for seizing this opportunity to create something not even Marvel proper has dared to do quite yet. Would they have made […]
Category action/adventure, fantasy, film reviews, science fiction, z.slideshow · Tags Bingbing Fan, Bryan Singer, Chris Claremont, Ellen Page, Evan Peters, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, James McAvoy, Jane Goldman, Jennifer Lawrence, John Byrne, Kick-Ass, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Matthew Vaughn, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult, Omar Sy, Patrick Stewart, Peter Dinklage, Shawn Ashmore, Simon Kinberg, Star Trek, The Wolverine, Uncanny X-Men, X-Men, X-Men 2, X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: First Class, X-Men: The Last Stand
Posted by Jared Mobarak on May 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 A Million Ways to Die in the West, Adam Driver, AllCity, Andrew Garfield, Angelina Jolie, Art Machine A Trailer Park Company, BLT Communications LLC, Brazil, Chef, Cloverfield, Cold Open, Dakota Fanning, Elizabeth Banks, Elle Fanning, Filth, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Godzilla, Gravillis Inc., Ian McKellan, Ignition, InSync + BemisBalkind, Iron Man, James Gray, James McAvoy, Jamie Foxx, Jan van Eyck, Jensen Adam Design, Jeremy Saunders, Jesse Eisenberg, Juan Luis Garcia, KINGSHOKO, Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return, Lost Type Co-op, Maleficent, Marion Cotillard, Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Monsters, Night Moves, Patrick Stewart, Peter Sarsgaard, Phantom City Creative, Robert Downey Jr., Roland Emmerich, RYSK, Seth MacFarlane, Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, Terry Gilliam, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, The Boland Design Company, The Double, The Immigrant, The Man with the Iron Fists, The Refinery, The Rum Diary, Tracks, Vox and Associates, Walk of Shame, WORKS ADV, X-Men: Days of Future Past
Posted by Jared Mobarak on April 13, 2013 · Leave a Comment
“Strawberry” What began in 1994 as a script screenwriter Joe Ahearne wished to turn into his feature film debut, Trance was sent to Danny Boyle in hopes the Shallow Grave helmer would give him the thumbs-up to follow his cinematic footsteps. Boyle instead told Ahearne the piece would prove too difficult for a first-time director, […]
Category film reviews, suspense/thriller · Tags Apparitions, Danny Boyle, Danny Sapani, Doctor Who, James McAvoy, Joe Ahearne, John Hodge, Rosario Dawson, Shallow Grave, Trance, Ultraviolet, Vincent Cassel
Posted by Jared Mobarak on April 1, 2013 · 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 42, Bad Boys II, Bemis Balkind, Ben Affleck, BLT Communications LLC, Brian Helgeland, Chadwick Boseman, Charlie Sheen, Compliance, Concept Arts, Crew Creative Advertising, Danny Boyle, Disconnect, Dwayne Johnson, Evil Dead, Gravillis Inc., I Am Legend, Ignition Print, James McAvoy, Jason Bateman, Karina Longworth, Katrina Bowden, Mark W. Carroll, Mark Wahlberg, Matthew McConaughey, Michael Bay, Mud, No Place on Earth, Oblivion, Olga Kurylenko, Pain & Gain, Primer, REV CREATIVE, Scary Movie V, Shane Carruth, Simon Killer, Snoop Lion, Terrence Malick, The Bank Job, The Prestige, The Refinery, The Tree of Life, To the Wonder, Trance, Upstream Color, Vincent Cassel, Will Smith
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