Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 12, 2018 · Leave a Comment
“Hasta lasagna. Don’t get any on ya.” Despite completing its successful seven-season run in 1973, it would take another twenty-three years before Bruce Geller‘s original television series received its inevitable cinematic adaptation. For a former Emmy winner starring the likes of Peter Graves, Martin Landau, and Leonard Nimoy with an action thriller premise just past […]
Category action/adventure, film reviews, suspense/thriller · Tags Brian De Palma, Bruce Geller, David Koepp, Emilio Estevez, Emmanuelle Béart, Henry Czerny, Jean Reno, Jon Voight, Kristin Scott Thomas, Mission: Impossible, Robert Towne, Tom Cruise, Vanessa Redgrave, Ving Rhames
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 7, 2018 · Leave a Comment
“Another announcement. Good God.” I admire what Sally Potter is trying to do with her black comedy The Party as experiment. She’s placed a group of friends with different political, economic, and romantic views into a single room, hanging a secret(s) over their heads with the potential to destroy their individual and communal identities. They’re […]
Category comedy, drama, film reviews · Tags Bruno Ganz, Cherry Jones, Cillian Murphy, Emily Mortimer, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patricia Clarkson, Sally Potter, The Party, Timothy Spall
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 5, 2017 · Leave a Comment
“It’s not a gift. It’s revenge.” Did you know Winston Churchill was given the Prime Minister position during World War II as a means to appease the opposition party before quickly removing him (once he failed like he always did) for the Conservatives’ actual choice to replace Neville Chamberlain? It’s quite the bit of intrigue […]
Category biography, drama, film reviews · Tags Anthony McCarten, Ben Mendelsohn, Darkest Hour, Gary Oldman, Joe Wright, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James, Ronald Pickup, Stephen Dillane
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 1, 2016 · Leave a Comment
“I’m the perfect servant: I have no life” Watching Gosford Park again conjured thoughts about it being quintessential Robert Altman, thoughts I couldn’t conjure in 2001 considering it was my first true experience watching one of his films. It proves the perfect evolutionary end to a way of filmmaking he began over twenty years previous […]
Category comedy, drama, film reviews · Tags A Wedding, Alan Bates, Bob Balaban, Camilla Rutherford, Charles Dance, Charlie Chan in London, Claudie Blakley, Clive Owen, Derek Jacobi, Downton Abbey, Eileen Atkins, Emily Watson, Geraldine Somerville, Gosford Park, Helen Mirren, James Wilby, Jeremy Northam, Julian Fellowes, Kelly MacDonald, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Richard E. Grant, Robert Altman, Ron Webster, Ryan Phillippe, Sophie Thompson, Stephen Fry, The Rules of the Game, Tom Hollander
Posted by Jared Mobarak on August 13, 2013 · Leave a Comment
“No matter what happens, keep your eyes closed” I’ve never seen a film by Alejandro Jodorowsky, but it doesn’t take a long glimpse into the auteur’s internet biographies to understand why Nicolas Winding Refn dedicated his Only God Forgives to the legend. Descriptions are riddled with labels such as “avant-garde”, “violently surreal”, “mystical”, and “religiously […]
Category drama, film reviews, suspense/thriller · Tags Alejandro Jodorowsky, Cliff Martinez, David Lynch, Drive, Kristin Scott Thomas, Larry Smith, Nicolas Winding Refn, Only God Forgives, Ryan Gosling, Tom Burke, Valhalla Rising, Vithaya Pansringarm, Yayaying Rhatha Phongam
Posted by Jared Mobarak on July 1, 2013 · 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 ARSONAL, Art Machine A Trailer Park Company, Aurélie Huet, Bemis Balkind, Blackfish, BLT Communications LLC, Cold Open, Computer Chess, Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus, Despicable Me 2, Fruitvale Station, Gravillis Inc., Grown Ups 2, Guillermo del Toro, Hugh Jackman, Hunter S. Thompson, Ignition Print, James Wan, John Travolta, Johnny Depp, Killing Season, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lili Taylor, Michael B. Jordan, Michael Cera, Only God Forgives, Pacific Rim, Pulse Advertising, Radiohead, RED 2, Rob Schneider, Robert De Niro, Ryan Gosling, Sergio Grisanti, Smurfs 2, The Act of Killing, The Beach Boys, The Cimarron Group, The Conjuring, The Killers, The Lone Ranger, The Wolverine, V/H/S, V/H/S/2, Violet & Daisy, Werner Herzog
Posted by Jared Mobarak on April 15, 2013 · Leave a Comment
“What’s a perfect family’s house like?” What happens inside one’s home is sacred. Your skeletons are exposed, carefully manufactured façades rest for the night, and pent up frustrations boil to the surface in a cathartic outburst of unchecked emotion and fatigued spirit. This is why voyeurism has such a psychologically sensual appeal in its incomparable […]
Category drama, film reviews, foreign, suspense/thriller · Tags Alfred Hitchcock, Bastien Ughetto, Dans la maison, Denis Ménochet, El chico de la última fila, Emmanuelle Seigner, Ernst Umhauer, Fabrice Luchini, François Ozon, French, In the House, Juan Mayorga, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rear Window, The Boy in the Last Row
Posted by Jared Mobarak on April 26, 2012 · Leave a Comment
“In that case I can fish” Much like how an absurd notion of satisfying a wealthy Sheikh’s whim to bring British salmon into the Yemen could actually occur—so Anglo-Middle East relations can attain a meaningless victory against a highly destructive war—the film adaptation of Paul Torday‘s novel Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is a feel […]
Category comedy, drama, film reviews, romance · Tags Amr Waked, Conleth Hill, Emily Blunt, Ewan McGregor, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lasse Hallström, Paul Torday, Rachael Stirling, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Simon Beaufoy, Tom Mison
Posted by Jared Mobarak on August 16, 2008 · Leave a Comment
“Be careful, I love you” Ne le dis à personne [Tell No One] is an ambitious adaptation of a Harlan Coben novel by French actor Guillaume Canet. I was completely surprised when checking out the actors’ names and seeing his as character Philippe Neuville, a deceased horse rider and integral part of the story. The […]
Category film reviews, foreign, suspense/thriller · Tags François Berléand, François Cluzet, French, Guillaume Canet, Harlan Coben, Jean Rochefort, Kristin Scott Thomas, Marie-Josée Croze, Ne le dis à personne, Tell No One, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Transporter
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