Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 5, 2019 · Leave a Comment
“We need someone to blow the ash away” I’m a lapsed Catholic who cynically wonders why the Pope isn’t considered a false idol—a direct result of my loathing of the church as a corrupt and hypocritical institution. I adopted this position years ago for the same reasons many others have. Catholicism has constantly proven itself […]
Posted by Jared Mobarak on April 5, 2019 · Leave a Comment
“You think explaining explains anything?” I’ve just finished watching it and yet I still can’t believe Terry Gilliam actually completed The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. If you told me I had dreamt it all I would give pause because it’s been over twenty years in the making and its cursed production schedules have become […]
Category action/adventure, comedy, drama, film reviews · Tags Adam Driver, Hovik Keuchkerian, Jean Rochefort, Joana Ribeiro, John Hurt, Johnny Depp, Jonathan Pryce, Jordi Mollà, Lost in La Mancha, Miguel de Cervantes, Olga Kurylenko, Stellan Skarsgård, Terry Gilliam, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Tony Grisoni
Posted by Jared Mobarak on October 8, 2018 · Leave a Comment
“Do what you need to do” After multiple expressions of frustration tinged with disgust on behalf of David Castleman (Max Irons) towards his father Joe (Jonathan Pryce), the time for the latter to finally tell the former what he thinks about his short story arrives. Joe is an acclaimed author who’s just landed in Stockholm […]
Category drama, film reviews · Tags Annie Starke, Björn Runge, Christian Slater, Glenn Close, Harry Lloyd, Jane Anderson, Jonathan Pryce, Max Irons, Meg Wolitzer, The Wife
Posted by Jared Mobarak on November 22, 2017 · Leave a Comment
“Why throw everything away for a minor holiday?” As Les Standiford‘s book would tell it, Charles Dickens (Dan Stevens) found himself in somewhat of a creative rut after a lengthy and expensive tour of America post-Oliver Twist. He had published three flops since buying a new London home in need of wholesale remodeling and began […]
Category biography, comedy, drama, film reviews, holiday · Tags Anna Murphy, Bharat Nalluri, Christopher Plummer, Dan Stevens, Jonathan Pryce, Justin Edwards, Les Standiford, Morfydd Clark, Simon Callow, Susan Coyne, The Man Who Invented Christmas
Posted by Jared Mobarak on April 23, 2016 · Leave a Comment
“How can you lose trousers?” Think of John Goldschmidt‘s latest film Dough (his first in the director’s chair since 1987) as a cinematic peace pipe for race relations and religious zealots. Rather than tobacco and herbs mixed into kinnikinnick for a clay vessel, however, screenwriters Jonathan Benson and Jez Freedman use marijuana and challah. The […]
Category comedy, drama, film reviews · Tags Andy de la Tour, Daniel Caltagirone, Dough, Ian Hart, Jerome Holder, Jez Freedman, John Goldschmidt, Jonathan Benson, Jonathan Pryce, Natasha Gordon, Pauline Collins, Philip Davis
Posted by Jared Mobarak on February 1, 2016 · Leave a Comment
“Don’t get caught” I don’t know what it is about Paul W.S. Anderson, but I very rarely dislike his flicks no matter the critical consensus or fandom drubbings. He isn’t the best director out there but he has created some interesting vehicles despite it—enough to accept the fact that Hollywood studios will continue giving him […]
Category action/adventure, drama, film reviews · Tags Daniel Newman, Dom Hemingway, Fraser James, Jonathan Pryce, Jude Law, Mortal Kombat, Paul W.S. Anderson, Resident Evil, Sadie Frost, Sean Bean, Sean Pertwee, Shopping, The Fast and the Furious
Posted by Jared Mobarak on February 10, 2015 · Leave a Comment
Two plus months and a few snowstorms later, David Henry Hwang finally made it to Buffalo. The second speaker in Just Buffalo Literary Center’s 2014/2015 Babel Season, Hwang probably would have waited even longer if the elements necessitated. He’s that generous a human being. Artistic Director Barbara Cole illustrated such with an anecdote concerning a […]
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 March 29, 2013 · Leave a Comment
“You love my panties” I have to give Paramount Pictures credit as they saw what did and didn’t work in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and sought a way to rectify their mistakes. Were they going to end up with a good film? No. Did they at least want to find a way to […]
Category action/adventure, film reviews, science fiction · Tags Adrianne Palicki, Bruce Willis, Byung-hun Lee, Channing Tatum, D.J. Cotrona, Dwayne Johnson, Elodie Yung, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Jon M. Chu, Jonathan Pryce, Luke Bracey, Paul Wernick, Ray Park, Ray Stevenson, Rhett Reese, RZA, Step Up 2: The Streets, Step Up 3D, Walton Goggins, Zombieland
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