Posted by Jared Mobarak on February 20, 2019 · Leave a Comment
The 90th Annual Academy Awards hits airwaves Sunday, February 24th, 2019 at 8:00pm on ABC. For those handicapping at home, here are the guesses of Buffalo film fanatics Christopher Schobert, William Altreuter, and myself. Jared Mobarak: It’s the type of year where hashtags rhetoric simply won’t work. There’s just not one all encapsulating buzzword to […]
Category essays, oscars, z.slideshow · Tags A Star Is Born, Academy Awards, Adam Driver, Adam McKay, Alfonso Cuarón, Amy Adams, At Eternity's Gate, Barry Jenkins, Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, Bohemian Rhapsody, Bradley Cooper, Brian Currie, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Charlie Wachtel, Christian Bale, Christopher Schobert, Cold War, David Rabinowitz, Deborah Davi, Emma Stone, Eric Roth, Ethan Coen, First Reformed, Glenn Close, Green Book, If Beale Street Could Talk, Jeff Whitty, Joel Coen, Kevin Willmott, Lady Gaga, Mahershala Ali, Marina de Tavira, Melissa McCarthy, Nick Vallelonga, Nicole Holofcener, Olivia Colman, Oscars, Paul Schrader, Pawel Pawlikowski, Peter Farrelly, Rachel Weisz, Rami Malek, Regina King, Richard E. Grant, Roma, Sam Elliott, Sam Rockwell, Spike Lee, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, The Favourite, The Wife, Tony McNamara, Vice, Viggo Mortensen, Will Fetters, Willem Dafoe, William Altreuter, Yalitza Aparicio, Yorgos Lanthimos
Posted by Jared Mobarak on January 2, 2019 · Leave a Comment
Below is my December 27th ballot for the 22nd annual Online Film Critics Society Awards honoring movies released domestically in the United States during the 2018 calendar year. Group winners are highlighted in red. (No option to abstain was supplied this year.) Best Picture #1If Beale StreetCould Talk #2You Were NeverReally Here #3Hereditary #4Eighth Grade […]
Category essays, top 10 films, z.slideshow · Tags A Star Is Born, Adam Driver, Adam Gough, Alfonso Cuarón, Anne Rosellini, Annihilation, Ari Aster, Barry Jenkins, BlacKkKlansman, Bo Burnham, Boots Riley, Bradley Cooper, Burning, Carlos López Estrada, Charlie Wachtel, Christian Bale, Cold War, David Rabinowitz, Deborah Davis, Debra Granik, Eddie Hamilton, Eighth Grade, Elizabeth Debicki, Emma Stone, Ethan Hawke, First Reformed, Free Solo, Gillian Flynn, Hereditary, If Beale Street Could Talk, Incredibles 2, Isle of Dogs, James Laxton, Jeff Whitty, Joaquin Phoenix, Joe Walker, John David Washington, Justin Hurwitz, Kevin Willmott, Lady Gaga, Linus Sandgren, Ludwig Göransson, Lukasz Zal, Lynne Ramsay, Mahershala Ali, Michael B. Jordan, Minding the Gap, Mirai, Nicholas Britell, Nicole Holofcener, Olivia Colman, Paul Schrader, Rachel Weisz, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Regina Hall, Regina King, Richard E. Grant, Robbie Ryan, Roma, Shirkers, Shoplifters, Sorry to Bother You, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Spike Lee, Steve McQueen, Steven Yeun, Suspiria, The Favourite, Thom Yorke, Thomasin McKenzie, Three Identical Strangers, Tom Cross, Toni Collette, Tony McNamara, Won't You Be My Neighbor?, Yalitza Aparicio, Yorgos Lanthimos, Yorgos Mavropsaridis, You Were Never Really Here, Zama
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 27, 2018 · Leave a Comment
“I love the way she sees them” It began with Hollywood as William A. Wellman and Robert Carson won an Oscar for their story about a young actress dreaming of super stardom in 1937. From there it went the way of the movie musical thanks to Judy Garland taking the lead before earning six nominations […]
Category drama, film reviews, musical/concert, romance · Tags A Star Is Born, Andrew Dice Clay, Anthony Ramos, Bradley Cooper, Eric Roth, Lady Gaga, Lukas Nelson, Rafi Gavron, Robert Carson, Sam Elliott, Will Fetters, William A. Wellman
Posted by Jared Mobarak on August 13, 2015 · Leave a Comment
“I’m out to destroy that virgin whore dichotomy” The story Katherine Monk brings us in Rock the Box isn’t necessarily unique when you only have to look at the Pop charts to see Miley Cyrus—or Lady Gaga to a more art-house abstraction—doing much of the same thing. What’s different between them and Rhiannon Rozier (DJ […]
Category documentary, film features, film festival, film reviews, shorts, toronto international film festival · Tags DJ Rhiannon, Katherine Monk, Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, Rhiannon Rozier, Rock the Box, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival
Posted by Jared Mobarak on February 23, 2015 · Leave a Comment
I’m not sure why I keep filling myself with false hope that the Oscars will one day be an entertaining show to watch. The optimism is almost completely unfounded by this point. Whether they go weird (Anne Hathaway and James Franco), safe (Billy Crystal), hip (Seth MacFarlane), or try and steal another show’s success (Neil […]
Category essays, oscars, z.slideshow · Tags Alejandro González Iñárritu, Anna Kendrick, Anne Hathaway, Billy Crystal, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Boyhood, Chris Pine, Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1, Ellen DeGeneres, Gone Girl, Graham Moore, Idina Menzel, Jack Black, James Franco, John Travolta, Julie Andrews, Lady Gaga, Meryl Streep, Neil Patrick Harris, Octavia Spencer, Patricia Arquette, Richard Linklater, Seth MacFarlane, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Sound of Music, Wes Anderson, Whiplash
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 20, 2013 · Leave a Comment
#100: Let Us Move On by Dido #99: City of Angels by Thirty Seconds to Mars #98: Exit Wounds by Placebo #97: Flashbacks, Memories, And Dreams by The Virgins #96: Ready to Go by Guards #95: If I Could Change Your Mind by HAIM #94: After the Fire by Andrew McMahon #93: Close Enough by […]
Category top 10 lists, top 10 songs by year, z.slideshow · Tags Aloe Blacc, Andrew McMahon, Arctic Monkeys, Armin Van Buuren, Avicii, Barbarossa, Bastille, Beady Eye, Birds of Tokyo, Black Joe Lewis, Blue October, Booker T., Born Ruffians, Cage the Elephant, Capital Cities, Caveman, CHVRCHES, City and Colour, Cold War Kids, Coldplay, Cut Copy, Daft Punk, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., Dido, Editors, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Empire of the Sun, Fitz and the Tantrums, Gin Wigmore, guards, HAIM, Har Mar Superstar, How to Destroy Angels, I Can Make a Mess, Iron & Wine, Jake Bugg, James Blake, Janelle Monáe, Jay-Z, Jessie Ware, Jim James, John Legend, Joseph Trapanese, Junip, Justin Timberlake, Juveniles, Katy Perry, KiD CuDi, KT Tunstall, Lady Gaga, Lana Del Rey, Local Natives, London Grammar, Lorde, Ludovico Einaudi, M.I.A, M83, Miles Kane, Miley Cyrus, My Chemical Romance, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, OneRepublic, Owl Eyes, Pearl Jam, Placebo, Ra Ra Riot, Rhye, Robin Thicke, Sigur Rós, Sky Ferreira, Sleigh Bells, Steve Mason, Talib Kweli, Tegan & Sara, The 1975, The Airborne Toxic Event, The Boxer Rebellion, The Civil Wars, The Courteeners, The Naked and Famous, The Neighbourhood, The Ruby Suns, The Virgins, The Weeknd, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Vampire Weekend, White Lies, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Youngblood Hawke, Yuna
Posted by Jared Mobarak on April 8, 2013 · Leave a Comment
“Perhaps we were unprepared. Or maybe just naïve.” After the tragic events surrounding Williamsville teen Jamey Rodemeyer’s 2011 suicide helped spark a public outcry against the phenomenon known as cyberbullying, it’s only fitting to see Muta’Ali Muhammad’s Submit the Documentary: The Virtual Reality of Cyberbullying make its second appearance on the festival circuit here in […]
Category buffalo niagara film festival, documentary, film features, film festival, film reviews, shorts · Tags Hope Witsell, Jamey Rodemeyer, Johanna Marie Lowe, Lady Gaga, Megan Meier, Muta’Ali Muhammad, Submit the Documentary: The Virtual Reality of Cyberbullying, The Buffalo Niagara Film Festival
Posted by Jared Mobarak on February 23, 2013 · Leave a Comment
“What’s snowballing?” Welcome to the digital age of a sexual generation raised on the ever-expanding internet where objectification has become self-inflicted before outside influences can gain the upper hand. By posting photos, videos, and comments on Facebook; sexting friends; dressing provocatively; and projecting an image of desire whether one is actually game to hook-up with […]
Category documentary, film reviews · Tags Bernard Stern, Britney Spears, Jennifer Bonjean, Jill Bauer, Ken Alpart, Lady Gaga, Laura Castle, Nichole Romagna, Ronna Gradus, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sexy Baby, Susan B. Anthony, Winnifred Bonjean-Alpart
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 19, 2011 · Leave a Comment
“Are you, like, gay or whatever too, or, like, normal?” Using a soundtrack as the score to a generation’s penchant for drugs, sex, and enlightenment, Gregg Araki’s Kaboom portrays a college of liberated psyches running wild to the sounds of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Cut Copy, The xx, and Interpol. It’s a […]
Category comedy, film reviews, science fiction, suspense/thriller · Tags Brennan Mejia, Chris Zylka, Cut Copy, Donnie Darko, Explosions in the Sky, Gregg Araki, Haley Bennett, Interpol, James Duval, Juno Temple, Kaboom, Lady Gaga, Mysterious Skin, Paul Banks, Richard Kelly, Roxane Mesquida, Southland Tales, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The xx, Thomas Dekker
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment
“They call me Ping Pong Dre” Not only does Sony have the audacity to remake a classic 80s film from my childhood such as The Karate Kid, they change the heritage from Japan to China and the titular karate to kung fu. At one point the new movie was named The Kung Fu Kid, an […]
Category family, film reviews, sports · Tags Harald Zwart, Jackie Chan, Jaden Smith, Lady Gaga, Martin Kove, Pat Morita, Rongguang Yu, Taraji P. Henson, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The Karate Kid, The Karate Kid Part II, The Pink Panther 2, Wenwen Han, Will Smith, Zhenwei Wang
Posted by Jared Mobarak on February 18, 2010 · 1 Comment
“It’s like High School, but without the Musical” Who else could have the catchy pop beats to lull a trio of mythologically inclined heroes into a trance, keeping them from their task at hand, than Lady Gaga? Director Chris Columbus made the right call on that one as he takes the plunge into yet another […]
Category action/adventure, family, fantasy, film reviews · Tags Alexandra Daddario, Brandon T. Jackson, Catherine Keener, Chris Columbus, Harry Potter, Joe Pantoliano, Kevin McKidd, Lady Gaga, Logan Lerman, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Pierce Brosnan, Rick Riordan, Sean Bean, Steve Coogan, Tropic Thunder, Uma Thurman
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