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
Posted by Jared Mobarak on February 13, 2013 · Leave a Comment
“Does she now? You look like Kenny Rogers.” Bolstered by a script ranking number three on the 2010 Brit List—a film industry tabulation of the best unproduced British screenplays—Eran Creevy‘s Welcome to the Punch goes a long way to putting the writer/director on our cinematic map. The guy has worked behind the scenes on projects […]
Category action/adventure, film reviews, suspense/thriller · Tags Andrea Riseborough, Calamity Jane, Daniel Mays, Dannielle Brent, Danny Boyle, David Morrissey, Elyes Gabel, Eran Creevy, Guy Ritchie, James McAvoy, Johnny Harris, Layer Cake, Mark Strong, Matthew Vaughn, Neil Jordan, Oblivion, Peter Mullan, Ridley Scott, Shifty, Welcome to the Punch
Posted by Jared Mobarak on November 19, 2011 · Leave a Comment
“In Santa We Believe” After the box office failure of Flushed Away, I was worried Aardman Animations may have been dead. With the fire that consumed thirty years of their history and the realization mainstream Americans simply don’t ‘get’ thew British-tinged dry humor, the Academy Award for Wallace & Gromit didn’t seem to prove enough. […]
Category animation, comedy, family, film reviews, holiday · Tags 24, Aardman, Apollo 13, Arthur Christmas, Ashley Jensen, Bill Nighy, Flushed Away, Hop, How to Train Your Dragon, Hugh Laurie, Imelda Staunton, James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent, Marc Wootton, Peter Baynham, Ramona Marquez, Sarah Smith, Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment
“That’s your Make-A-Wish? To drive?” Cancer can be funny. How people with life threatening diseases can deal with the constant drone of, “You’re going to be fine” or “You’ll get through this” or “What you’re feeling is normal” has always been something that fascinated me. Personally—I can only guess having luckily never been put through […]
Category comedy, drama, film reviews · Tags 50/50, Andrew Airlie, Anjelica Huston, Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard, Da Ali G Show, Hereafter, James McAvoy, Jonathan Levine, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Matt Frewer, Philip Baker Hall, Serge Houde, Seth Rogen, Will Reiser
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