Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 29, 2019 · Leave a Comment
“Remember who you are” The sun rises at the screen’s bottom as Lebo M. is heard singing in Zulu. We take a look at the wide-open expanse of an African savannah before slowly honing in on herds of animals moving towards a single spot: Pride Rock. There we find Mufasa (James Earl Jones) and Sarabi […]
Category action/adventure, animation, drama, family, film reviews · Tags Brenda Chapman, Carmen Twillie, Cheech Marin, Elton John, Ernie Sabella, Hans Zimmer, Irene Mecchi, James Earl Jones, Jeremy Irons, Jim Cummings, Jonathan Roberts, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Kimba and the White Lion, Lebo M., Linda Woolverton, Madge Sinclair, Matthew Broderick, Moira Kelly, Nathan Lane, Osamu Tezuka, Rob Minkoff, Robert Guillaume, Roger Allers, Rowan Atkinson, The Lion King, Tim Rice, Whoopi Goldberg
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 9, 2017 · Leave a Comment
“Authenticity, optimism, and a dog” As the Blitz raged and British soldiers continued to pour into Europe to try and push the Germans back, those left at home to take cover during air raids and do their part in factories still needed something to keep morale high when it all looked so futile. One such […]
Category comedy, drama, film reviews, romance · Tags Bill Nighy, Gaby Chiappe, Gemma Arterton, Henry Goodman, Jack Huston, Jake Lacy, Jeremy Irons, Lissa Evans, Lone Scherfig, Paul Ritter, Rachael Stirling, Richard E. Grant, Sam Claflin, Their Finest
Posted by Jared Mobarak on November 14, 2017 · Leave a Comment
“I don’t have to recognize it. I just have to save it.” There are a lot of haters out there—those who pile on Zack Snyder, the DC Extended Universe, and both. I’m not one of them. But that doesn’t mean I’ve loved what they’ve delivered. We’ve received one good film (Wonder Woman), one ambitiously enjoyable […]
Category action/adventure, fantasy, film reviews · Tags Amber Heard, Amy Adams, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Ben Affleck, Billy Crudup, Chris Terrio, Ciarán Hinds, Danny Elfman, Ezra Miller, Gal Gadot, Henry Cavill, Jason Momoa, Jeremy Irons, Joe Morton, Joss Whedon, Justice League, Man of Steel, Ray Fisher, Suicide Squad, The Avengers, Wonder Woman, Zack Snyder
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 23, 2016 · Leave a Comment
“Not everyone deserves to live” The Knights Templar and their numerous myths about secret societies and grand political aspirations have rendered the organization primed for villainous roles in multiple forms of media. One example is Ubisoft’s videogame Assassin’s Creed wherein a violent war has waged for centuries between the Templars’ drive for world domination (peace […]
Category action/adventure, fantasy, film reviews · Tags Adam Cooper, Assassin's Creed, Bill Collage, Brendan Gleeson, Brian Gleeson, Callum Turner, Charlotte Rampling, Denis Ménochet, Essie Davis, Jeremy Irons, Justin Kurzel, Khalid Abdalla, Marion Cotillard, Michael Fassbender, Michael K. Williams, Michael Lesslie, Michelle H. Lin
Posted by Jared Mobarak on April 26, 2016 · Leave a Comment
“Like other great men he invented himself” A bit character in Matt Brown‘s affecting biographical drama The Man Who Knew Infinity chants “Din, Din, Din, Gunga Din” a couple times in friendly jest as a response to his employer G.H. Hardy’s (Jeremy Irons) decision to send for an uneducated South Indian man on the merits […]
Category biography, drama, film reviews · Tags A Beautiful Mind, Anthony Calf, Dev Patel, Devika Bhise, Jeremy Irons, Jeremy Northam, Kevin McNally, Matt Brown, Rudyard Kipling, Something the Lord Made, The Man Who Knew Infinity, Toby Jones
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 22, 2016 · Leave a Comment
“Ignorance is not the same as innocence” Director and steward of Warner Bros.’s entire DC Comic universe—for better or worse depending on your personal opinion of the man’s portfolio—Zack Snyder has spent two years telling us Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is ostensibly Man of Steel 2. It’s not. This thing is a Batman […]
Category action/adventure, fantasy, film reviews · Tags Amy Adams, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Ben Affleck, Chris Terrio, Christopher Nolan, David S. Goyer, Ezra Miller, Gal Gadot, Gene Hackman, Harry Lennix, Henry Cavill, Holly Hunter, Jason Momoa, Jeremy Irons, Jesse Eisenberg, Kevin Costner, Lawrence Fishburne, Man of Steel, Ray Fisher, Scoot McNairy, Zack Snyder
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 13, 2015 · Leave a Comment
“I think he’s lost his focus” As soon as the voice of Tom Hiddleston‘s Dr. Robert Laing was heard speaking narration above his weathered and crazed visage manically moving from cluttered, dirty room to darkened feverish corner, my mind started racing. Terry Gilliam‘s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas popped into my consciousness and then […]
Category comedy, drama, film features, film festival, film reviews, science fiction, toronto international film festival, z.slideshow · Tags A Field in England, ABBA, Amy Jump, Ben Wheatley, Brazil, Dan Renton Skinner, Elisabeth Moss, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, High-Rise, J.G. Ballard, James Purefoy, Jeremy Irons, Keeley Hawes, Kill List, Louis Suc, Luke Evans, Portishead, Sienna Guillory, Sienna Miller, Snowpiercer, Stanley Kubrick, Terry Gilliam, TIFF, Tom Hiddleston, Toronto International Film Festival, Waydowntown
Posted by Jared Mobarak on January 19, 2014 · Leave a Comment
“Don’t make me dream that again” The last line of David Cronenberg‘s Dead Ringers is on the nose and yet still disturbingly surreal. Jeremy Irons (playing twin gynecologists Elliot and Beverly Mantle) phones his lover Claire (Geneviève Bujold) only to hear the telling reply, “Who is this?” While we too find ourselves uncertain which is […]
Category drama, film reviews, suspense/thriller · Tags Bari Wood, David Cronenberg, Dead Ringers, Geneviève Bujold, Jack Geasland, Jeremy Irons, Norman Snider, Scanners, Stephen Lack, The Dead Zone, The Fly, Videodrome
Posted by Jared Mobarak on November 28, 2013 · Leave a Comment
“When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty” Sometimes a well-written story is all you truly need to make a successful film and I believe author Pascal Mercier‘s novel Night Train to Lisbon provides one. Adapted by Greg Latter and Ulrich Herrmann with Bille August as director, the cinematic version of this look back […]
Category film reviews, romance, suspense/thriller · Tags Adriano Luz, August Diehl, Bille August, Bruno Ganz, Charlotte Rampling, Christopher Lee, Greg Latter, Jack Huston, Jeremy Irons, Lena Olin, Marco D'Almeida, Martina Gedeck, Mélanie Laurent, Night Train to Lisbon, Pascal Mercier, Sarah Bühlmann, The Debt, Tom Courtenay, Ulrich Herrmann
Posted by Jared Mobarak on February 6, 2013 · Leave a Comment
“You can either run or shoot” Just like clockwork the Twilight series has found a successor. Trading vampires and werewolves for witches, authors Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl‘s Caster Chronicles‘ has hit theatres with much less fanfare but perhaps more intrigue. Gatlin, South Carolina’s secrets are a mixture of Hogwart’s affinity for the Muggle world […]
Category fantasy, film reviews, romance · Tags A Decade Under the Influence, Alden Ehrenreich, Alice Englert, Beautiful Creatures, Caster Chronicles, Emma Thompson, Emmy Rossum, Harry Potter, Jane Campion, Jeremy Irons, Kami Garcia, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Margaret Stohl, Richard LaGravenese, Tetro, The Fisher King, Tiffany Boone, Twilight, Viola Davis, Zoey Deutch
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 12, 2011 · Leave a Comment
“It’s a long way down” When most people think about Wall Street movies they usually conjure images of the financial center’s eponymous Oliver Stone flick or something like Boiler Room showing the fast life and high rewards achieved by twenty-somethings pushing numbers around a computer screen. We think glamorous lifestyles and the stench of arrogance […]
Category drama, film reviews, suspense/thriller · Tags Boiler Room, Demi Moore, Glengarry Glen Ross, J.C. Chandor, Jeremy Irons, Kevin Spacey, Margin Call, Oliver Stone, Paul Bettany, Penn Badgley, Simon Baker, Stanley Tucci, Warrior, Zachary Quinto
Recent Comments