Posted by Jared Mobarak on April 22, 2017 · Leave a Comment
“I like dull work” I had read that Secretary the film was very different from its source material (a short story in Mary Gaitskill’s book Bad Behavior). Even so, I wasn’t prepared for the difference being tone rather than content. Besides a drastically altered ending, everything that happens in text is included almost verbatim. But […]
Category comedy, drama, film reviews, romance · Tags Bad Behavior, Erin Cressida Wilson, James Spader, Jeremy Davies, Jessica Tuck, Lesley Ann Warren, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Mary Gaitskill, Secretary, Stephen McHattie, Steven Shainberg
Posted by Jared Mobarak on April 27, 2015 · Leave a Comment
“It wasn’t a nightmare. It was a legacy.” He may not have been there at the start, but Joss Whedon stewarded the Marvel Cinematic Universe through its make or break stage. It was one thing to give the world high-tech flying fun via a sarcastic playboy, otherworld fantasy come to earth courtesy of a haughty […]
Category action/adventure, drama, fantasy, film reviews, science fiction, z.slideshow · Tags Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Drew Goddard, Elizabeth Olsen, Jack Kirby, James Gunn, James Spader, Jeremy Renner, Joss Whedon, Kevin Feige, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Stan Lee, The Avengers, Thomas Kretschmann
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 9, 2014 · Leave a Comment
“God will strike you down” I didn’t necessarily love The Homesman, but it’s hard not to respect it. This is a dark story in the desolate Mid-West with outlaw justice and remorseless murder surrounding the charitably selfless journey of Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank) and the three crazed women she’s taking across the Missouri into […]
Category drama, film reviews, western · Tags Barry Corbin, Glendon Swarthout, Grace Gummer, Hailee Steinfeld, Hilary Swank, James Spader, John Lithgow, Kieran Fitzgerald, Meryl Streep, Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter, The Homesman, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Tim Blake Nelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Wesley A. Oliver, William Fichtner
Posted by Jared Mobarak on November 8, 2012 · 1 Comment
“This isn’t usual, Mr. Pendleton. This is history.” Images of brother fighting brother, President Lincoln orating the Emancipation Proclamation, and his tragic demise at the end of John Wilkes Booth’s gun are conjured when most think about the Civil War. For many the abolition of slavery was merely one of the resulting terms of surrender […]
Category biography, drama, film reviews · Tags Amistad, Boris McGiver, Daniel Day Lewis, David Costabile, David Strathairn, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Gloria Reuben, Hal Holbrook, Jackie Earle Haley, James Spader, Jared Harris, John Hawkes, John Williams, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lee Pace, Lincoln, Michael Stuhlbarg, Peter McRobbie, Sally Field, Saving Private Ryan, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Steven Spielberg, Tim Blake Nelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Tony Kushner, Walton Goggins
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 22, 2010 · 2 Comments
“I just bagged the elephant” We Some films are carried by a once in a lifetime performance that takes you along for a ride greater than itself. Oliver Stone’s Wall Street is one of them. Written with Stanley Weiser, Stone, fresh off a huge Oscar run with Platoon the previous year, wanted to get right […]
Category drama, film reviews · Tags Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah, Hal Holbrook, James Spader, Martin Sheen, Michael Douglas, Oliver Stone, Platoon, Stanley Weiser, Wall Street
Posted by Jared Mobarak on July 8, 2010 · Leave a Comment
“I’m here in case you succeed” Could anyone have fathomed Stargate spawning a legion of television series and huge cult sci-fi following back in 1994? It came from writer/director Roland Emmerich after all, a man that had a German language feature and four in English, all ill received, behind him. Who knew he’d one day […]
Category action/adventure, film reviews, science fiction · Tags Alexis Cruz, Djimon Hounsou, French Stewart, Independence Day, James Spader, Jaye Davidson, John Diehl, Kurt Russell, Leon Rippy, Michael Bay, Mili Avital, Roland Emmerich, Stargate, Stargate Universe, The Patriot, Will Smith
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 11, 2006 · Leave a Comment
“Never take advice from someone you don’t know intimately” Here we have the film that put frequent indie/mainstream crossover, powerhouse director Steven Soderbergh on the cinematic map. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect having never seen it and hearing all the hype surrounding it. For some reason I thought there was an NC-17 controversy […]
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