Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 8, 2019 · Leave a Comment
“The present is a miracle” When two paramedic best friends in New Orleans discovered the first unexplainable injury on their route, they didn’t really think much about it. The second? Well, it was a body. They shouldn’t have even been called. What about the third, though? A snake bite in a hotel room without a […]
Category drama, film features, film festival, film reviews, science fiction, toronto international film festival · Tags Aaron Moorhead, Ally Ioannides, Anthony Mackie, Jamie Dornan, Justin Benson, Katie Aselton, Synchronic, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival
Posted by Jared Mobarak on April 27, 2017 · Leave a Comment
As someone who loved Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson‘s Spring to the point of seeking out everything else they had done before that point, hearing about a new work debuting at Tribeca got me excited to see what they would deliver. My assumption was that it was the Aleister Crowley picture they spoke about when […]
Category film features, interviews, z.slideshow · Tags Aaron Moorhead, Callie Hernandez, David Lawson Jr., Emily Zuzik, Jimmy LaValle, Justin Benson, Lew Temple, Resolution, Shane Brady, Spring, Tate Ellington, The Endless, Tribeca Film Festival
Posted by Jared Mobarak on April 20, 2017 · Leave a Comment
“Please, be quiet” To resolve is to settle, finding the determination to do something rather than simply wait for something to happen to you. A resolution isn’t therefore a firm ending. On the contrary, it serves to provide beginnings. That decision has the potential to set you onto a path towards freedom either from the […]
Category film features, film festival, film reviews, horror, science fiction, suspense/thriller, tribeca film festival · Tags Aaron Moorhead, Callie Hernandez, Emily Montague, H.P. Lovecraft, James Jordan, Justin Benson, Lew Temple, Resolution, Tate Ellington, The Endless, Tribeca Film Festival
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 4, 2016 · Leave a Comment
I have no problem saying 2015 was a great year for cinema. Putting together a Top Ten was difficult at every turn—both because each time I had to do so meant I had seen more films and as a result of my preferences constantly changing. There are more than a few from 11-20 that easily […]
Category essays, top 10 films · Tags 45 Years, A War, Aaron Moorhead, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Alex Garland, Alicia Vikander, Andrew Haigh, Anomalisa, Bel Powley, Best of Enemies, Black, Bridge of Spies, Brie Larson, Brooklyn, Carol, Cartel Land, Creed, Cynthia Nixon, Danny Boyle, Eddie Redmayne, Ex Machina, Far From Men, Gail Bean, George Miller, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, Goodnight Mommy, Home, How to Change the World, Ich seh Ich seh, Inside Out, Jacob Tremblay, James White, Jason Mitchell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Joan Allen, John Crowley, Josh Mond, Justin Benson, Kate Winslet, Krigen, László Nemes, Lenny Abrahamson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Listen to Me Marlon, Loin des hommes, Mad Max: Fury Road, Marielle Heller, Mark Rylance, Meet the Patels, Men & Chicken, Meru, Michael Fassbender, Mustang, Mænd & høns, Paul Dano, Pawn Sacrifice, Pete Docter, Phantom Boy, Quentin Tarantino, Richard Gere, Ronnie Del Carmen, Room, Rooney Mara, Ryan Coogler, Saoirse Ronan, Saul Fia, Shaun the Sheep Movie, Son of Saul, Spotlight, Spring, Steve Jobs, Straight Outta Compton, Sylvester Stallone, The Danish Girl, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, The Hateful Eight, The Look of Silence, The Revenant, Theeb, Time Out of Mind, Tobey Maguire, Todd Haynes, Tom McCarthy, Unexpected, Victoria, What Happened Miss Simone?, Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
Posted by Jared Mobarak on July 24, 2015 · Leave a Comment
“Did anyone call in sick for me?” When the industry is inundated with supernatural horror redundancies like it has for the past two decades, work like Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg‘s Shaun of the Dead or Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead‘s Spring are necessary to kept things from going stale. A point when audiences simply […]
Category fantasia international film festival, film features, film festival, film reviews, science fiction, suspense/thriller · Tags Aaron Moorhead, Alysia Reiner, Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Ava's Possessions, Carol Kane, Dan Fogler, Deborah Rush, Edgar Wright, Fantasia International Film Festival, Joel de la Fuente, Jordan Galland, Justin Benson, Lou Taylor Pucci, Louisa Krause, Shaun of the Dead, Simon Pegg, Spring, Wass Stevens, Whitney Able, William Sadler, Zachary Booth
Posted by Jared Mobarak on April 1, 2015 · Leave a Comment
Sometimes the festival experience has a way of making you overrate films. The excitement of seeing things early with like-minded individuals, listening to filmmakers talk before and after their screenings, and the general festival aura are hard to separate from the work itself. So I won’t lie and say I didn’t re-watch Aaron Moorhead and […]
Category film features, interviews, z.slideshow · Tags Aaron Moorhead, Almost Famous, Brandon Schaefer, Cockneys vs Zombies, Francesco Carnelutti, It Follows, Jaws, Justin Benson, Lost, Lou Taylor Pucci, Matthias Hoene, Nadia Hilker, Nick Nevern, Resolution, Richard Linklater, Spring, The Babadook
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 27, 2015 · Leave a Comment
“They said they were researching folktales” ***Possible Spoilers*** Films like Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead‘s Resolution can’t help but get under your skin and risk never letting go. Any issues you may have about production quality, plot holes, pacing, and performances fall away because of one genius detail planting the seeds of curiosity. Then, when […]
Category film reviews, horror, suspense/thriller · Tags Aaron Moorhead, Bill Oberst Jr., Funny Games, Justin Benson, Michael Haneke, Peter Cilella, Resolution, Spring, Vinny Curran, Zahn McClarnon
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 4, 2015 · Leave a Comment
“Are you a good boy or not?” The comparisons are so spot-on that I knew critics before me had made the same parallels before even looking. Ana Lily Amirpour‘s debut feature A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is Jim Jarmusch cool with Quentin Tarantino swagger—an Iranian Vampire Western calling to mind Dead Man and […]
Category film reviews, foreign, horror, romance · Tags A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Aaron Moorhead, Ana Lily Amirpour, Arash Marandi, Dead Man, Dominic Rains, Farsi, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Jim Jarmusch, Justin Benson, Marshall Manesh, Milad Eghbali, Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino, Rome Shadanloo, Spring, White Lies
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 17, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Friends and family think me crazy for driving up the QEW so I can sit in darkened theaters for around thirty of a total eighty-hours in Toronto, but I wouldn’t spend my early September days any other way. This is what the Toronto International Film Festival does—it makes you look sanity in the face, say no […]
Category entertainment, essays, film features, film festival, toronto international film festival · Tags Aaron Moorhead, Adam Sandler, Adult Beginners, Ansel Elgort, Bang Bang Baby, Before Sunrise, Chiara D'Anna, Clouds of Sils Maria, Coming Home, Corbo, Dan Gilroy, Ed Wood, Far From Men, Foxcatcher, Intouchables, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jane Fonda, Jane Levy, Jason Bateman, Jason Reitman, Justin Benson, Kaitlyn Dever, Kevin Smith, Kill Me Three Times, Kristen Wiig, Kriv Stenders, Lone Scherfig, Lou Taylor Pucci, Max Irons, Men Women & Children, Method Man, Nadia Hilker, Nick Kroll, Nightcrawler, Olivier Assayas, Peter Strickland, Pride, Sam Claflin, Samba, Shira Piven, Simon Pegg, Spring, St. Vincent, The Cobbler, The Duke of Burgundy, The Equalizer, The Imitation Game, The Judge, The Riot Club, The Wanted 18, This is Where I Leave You, Thomas McCarthy, TIFF, Tina Fey, Toronto International Film Festival, Tusk, Viggo Mortensen, Welcome to Me, Whiplash, Yimou Zhang
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 7, 2014 · Leave a Comment
“I’m not drunk enough to sleep in your mother’s deathbed” The first words in Colin Geddes’ TIFF description for Vanguard selection Spring are, “Before Sunrise gets a supernatural twist.” You read that as a cinephile and you push everything aside to check out what it could mean. A horror romance co-director Aaron Moorhead described in […]
Category film features, film festival, film reviews, horror, romance, science fiction, toronto international film festival, z.slideshow · Tags Aaron Moorhead, Before Sunrise, Colin Geddes, Francesco Carnelutti, Hostel, Jeremy Gardner, Justin Benson, Lou Taylor Pucci, Nadia Hilker, Nick Nevern, Spring, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival
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