Posted by Jared Mobarak on January 14, 2019 · Leave a Comment
“Stop talking shop. She’ll turn in her grave.” It’s not about the robbery. King of Thieves wouldn’t be worth telling if it was just watching these senior actors ranging sixty-years old to eighty-five fictitiously accomplish the “biggest jewel heist in British history” since there obviously won’t be any foot-chases or complex wire-suspended acrobatics. No, the […]
Category drama, film reviews · Tags Charlie Cox, James Marsh, Jim Broadbent, Joe Penhall, King of Thieves, Mark Seal, Michael Caine, Michael Gambon, Paul Whitehouse, Ray Winstone, Tom Courtenay
Posted by Jared Mobarak on January 8, 2018 · Leave a Comment
“Where all your dreams come true” In true children’s book fashion, Paddington’s (Ben Whishaw) continuing adventures in London alongside the Brown family (Hugh Bonneville‘s Henry, Sally Hawkins‘ Mary, Madeleine Harris‘ Judy, Samuel Joslin‘s Jonathan, and Julie Walters‘ Mrs. Bird) would of course stem from something as seemingly innocuous as procuring a birthday present for his […]
Category action/adventure, comedy, family, film reviews · Tags Aaron Neil, Ben Whishaw, Brendan Gleeson, Hugh Bonneville, Hugh Grant, Imelda Staunton, Jim Broadbent, Joanna Lumley, Julie Walters, Justin Edwards, Madeleine Harris, Michael Bond, Noah Taylor, Paddington 2, Paul King, Peter Capaldi, Richard Ayoade, Sally Hawkins, Samuel Joslin, Simon Farnaby, Tom Davis
Posted by Jared Mobarak on January 6, 2018 · Leave a Comment
“Does anyone know where I can find a home?” I remember reading Michael Bond‘s Paddington Bear books when I was a kid and might have even had a duffle coat-wearing stuffed animal too. But I couldn’t tell you a thing about those stories if you put a gun to my head and asked. I recall […]
Category action/adventure, comedy, family, film reviews · Tags Ben Whishaw, Hugh Bonneville, Imelda Staunton, Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters, Madeleine Harris, Matt Lucas, Michael Bond, Michael Gambon, Nicole Kidman, Paddington, Paul King, Peter Capaldi, Sally Hawkins, Samuel Joslin, Tim Downie
Posted by Jared Mobarak on November 21, 2015 · Leave a Comment
“I’m not sure I have a home anymore” I believe a very crucial distinction should be made before going into director John Crowley and writer Nick Hornby‘s adaptation of Colm Tóibín‘s Brooklyn for those unfamiliar with the book. When I watched the trailer it appeared very much like an Oscar-bait romance with a firecracker love […]
Category drama, film reviews, romance, z.slideshow · Tags Brid Brennan, Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín, Domhnall Gleeson, Emily Bett Rickards, Emory Cohen, Eva Birthistle, Eve Macklin, Fiona Glascott, James DiGiacomo, Jane Brennan, Jim Broadbent, John Crowley, Julie Walters, Nick Hornby, Saoirse Ronan
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 26, 2015 · Leave a Comment
After finding success from his debut feature Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale—an expansion of a world he created through two previous shorts all released together by Oscilloscope—Finnish writer/director Jalmari Helander did what many European filmmakers do and went English-language for his sophomore effort. But he did so on his terms by once again writing his […]
Category film features, interviews, z.slideshow · Tags Big Game, Felicity Huffman, Jalmari Helander, Jim Broadbent, Jorma Tommila, Juri Seppä, Miska Seppä, Onni Tommila, Petri Jokiranta, Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale, Ray Stevenson, Samuel L. Jackson, Ted Levine, Victor Garber
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 6, 2015 · Leave a Comment
“Life is just too damn short not to have a cookie when you want one” Despite being rated PG-13 in America, Jalmari Helander‘s Big Game should target audiences between 10-15 like Dan Smith’s Young Adult novelization of the film. Being a Finnish production—the most expensive in the country’s history—probably means it did just that abroad. […]
Category action/adventure, film reviews · Tags Apollo 13, Big Game, Dan Smith, Jalmari Helander, Jim Broadbent, Jorma Tommila, Mehmet Kurtulus, Onni Tommila, Petri Jokiranta, Ray Stevenson, Samuel L. Jackson, Victor Garber
Posted by Jared Mobarak on January 27, 2015 · Leave a Comment
“Can I help at all?” It’s nice to see an artist who’s unafraid to play with tragedy and find a way to make it transform into a bittersweet glimmer of hope. There’s a fine line in doing so, one that can easily consume the goal into a trite abyss trying too hard to stay afloat […]
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 8, 2014 · Leave a Comment
“That’s the nicest thing I’ve ever put in my mouth” Children are our legacy—our immortality. We sacrifice everything to raise them in our image, hoping for the best until they’re set free as fully formed adults ready to continue the cycle. And through our rosy-colored glasses of optimism we assume the journey ends happily in […]
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 21, 2013 · Leave a Comment
“Care for a little necrophilia?” Although Terry Gilliam had already established the highly imaginative filmic style we now associate him with above his Monty Python animations, no one could have imagined the scale of what would become his unequivocal masterpiece, Brazil. There were shades of its escapism in Time Bandits and its bureaucratic satire in […]
Category comedy, drama, fantasy, film reviews, science fiction · Tags Ary Barroso, Barbara Hicks, Bob Hoskins, Brazil, Charles McKeown, Criterion Collection, George Orwell, Ian Holm, Jim Broadbent, Jonathan Pryce, Katherine Helmond, Kim Greist, Michael Palin, Monty Python, Peter Vaughan, Robert De Niro, Sheila Reid, Sid Sheinberg, Terry Gilliam, The Crimson Permanent Assurance, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Time Bandits
Posted by Jared Mobarak on August 16, 2013 · Leave a Comment
“The judicial process in this country is and will remain fair and transparent” Director John Crowley is a man with good luck picking screenplays. His feature film debut Intermission is a fun Irish romp while drama Boy A is in my opinion criminally underrated and ignored. So, seeing him sign onto a project written by […]
Category film reviews, suspense/thriller · Tags Boy A, Ciarán Hinds, Closed Circuit, Denis Moschitto, Dirty Pretty Things, Eastern Promises, Eric Bana, Intermission, Jim Broadbent, John Crowley, Rebecca Hall, Riz Ahmed, Steven Knight
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