Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 20, 2017 · Leave a Comment
“I want to see the sky” There’s a lot of backlash against director Colin Trevorrow for reasons he didn’t necessarily earn. Most of the vitriol stems from his being scooped up by the Hollywood studio machine after helming just one indie film. That debut was the Sundance award-winning Safety Not Guaranteed, a small-scale sci-fi written […]
Category drama, film reviews, suspense/thriller · Tags Colin Trevorrow, Dean Norris, Gregg Hurwitz, Jacob Tremblay, Jaeden Lieberher, Lee Pace, Maddie Ziegler, Maxwell Simkins, Naomi Watts, Sarah Silverman, The Book of Henry
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 10, 2014 · Leave a Comment
“One light, alone in the darkness” No matter how entertaining The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is—definitely the best of the trilogy—I still can’t shake the feeling that J.R.R. Tolkien‘s tale would have been better served as a two-parter. A lot of the added information director Peter Jackson and his stable of co-writers […]
Category action/adventure, fantasy, film reviews · Tags An Unexpected Journey, Benedict Cumberbatch, Billy Connolly, Evangeline Lilly, Ian McKellen, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lee Pace, Luke Evans, Martin Freeman, Orlando Bloom, Peter Jackson, Richard Armitage, Ryan Gage, The Battle of the Five Armies, The Desolation of Smaug, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King
Posted by Jared Mobarak on July 24, 2014 · 1 Comment
“I don’t learn” It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the best Marvel film to date would be one without a single recognizable character to anyone not already a fan. Guardians of the Galaxy has been around since 1969, but it’s the 2008 iteration by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning which struck the studio’s fancy […]
Category action/adventure, film reviews, science fiction, z.slideshow · Tags Andy Lanning, Benicio Del Toro, Bradley Cooper, Chris Pratt, Christopher Nolan, Dan Abnett, Dave Bautista, Djimon Hounsou, Glenn Close, Guardians of the Galaxy, James Gunn, John C. Reilly, Josh Brolin, Joss Whedon, Karen Gillan, Lee Pace, Michael Rooker, Nicole Perlman, Parks and Recreation, Peter Serafinowicz, Robert Downey Jr., Sean Gunn, Slither, Super, The Avengers, The O.C., Vin Diesel, Zoë Saldana
Posted by Jared Mobarak on July 20, 2014 · Leave a Comment
“Sexual congress in five” There are some great science fiction films that deal with time travel in a way blockbusters like The Terminator simply cannot due to scale and want for mass appeal. To fans of that series a movie like Primer may be too technically oppressive and intellectual while Timecrimes too dark and finite. […]
Category comedy, fantasia international film festival, film features, film festival, film reviews, romance, science fiction · Tags Alex Dimitriades, Fantasia International Film Festival, Hannah Marshall, Hugh Sullivan, Josh McConville, Lee Pace, Martin Freeman, Nacho Vigalondo, Primer, Pushing Daisies, Shane Carruth, The Infinite Man, The Office, The Terminator, Timecrimes
Posted by Jared Mobarak on November 24, 2012 · Leave a Comment
“Should I start calling you Dad?” **contains spoilers as far as its major difference from the book** I’m going to applaud The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 for two reasons. One, it signals what we can hope and pray will be the last adventure inside Stephenie Meyer‘s angst-ridden, melodramatic world of supernaturals—until the planned […]
Category action/adventure, fantasy, film reviews, romance · Tags Bill Condon, Cam Gigandet, Casey LaBow, Dakota Fanning, Guillermo del Toro, Guillermo Navarro, Heroes, Joe Anderson, Judith Shekoni, Kristen Stewart, Lee Pace, Mackenzie Foy, Maggie Grace, Melissa Rosenberg, Michael Sheen, Rami Malek, Robert Pattinson, Stephenie Meyer, Taylor Lautner, The Last Airbender, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2, Twilight, X-Men
Posted by Jared Mobarak on November 8, 2012 · 1 Comment
“This isn’t usual, Mr. Pendleton. This is history.” Images of brother fighting brother, President Lincoln orating the Emancipation Proclamation, and his tragic demise at the end of John Wilkes Booth’s gun are conjured when most think about the Civil War. For many the abolition of slavery was merely one of the resulting terms of surrender […]
Category biography, drama, film reviews · Tags Amistad, Boris McGiver, Daniel Day Lewis, David Costabile, David Strathairn, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Gloria Reuben, Hal Holbrook, Jackie Earle Haley, James Spader, Jared Harris, John Hawkes, John Williams, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lee Pace, Lincoln, Michael Stuhlbarg, Peter McRobbie, Sally Field, Saving Private Ryan, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Steven Spielberg, Tim Blake Nelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Tony Kushner, Walton Goggins
Posted by Jared Mobarak on January 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment
This list is accurate as of post-date. So many films and not enough time to see them all, the potential for future change is inevitable, but as of today here are the best … I don’t know what precipitated 2008 being the year of the World War II movie, but of the 100+ releases I […]
Category essays, top 10 films · Tags Adam Resurrected, Appaloosa, Brick, Catinca Untaru, Changeling, Che, Christopher Nolan, Coraline, Danny Boyle, Darren Aronofsky, David Gordon Green, Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, Forrest Gump, Frozen River, Funny People, Garth Jennings, Gus Van Sant, Happy-Go-Lucky, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Heath Ledger, I'm a Cyborg, Jenny Lumet, Jonathan Demme, Kar Wai Wong, Kate Winslet, Låt den rätte komma in, Lee Pace, Let the Right One In, Michael Shannon, Mickey Rourke, Milk, My Blueberry Nights, My Winnipeg, Norah Jones, Pineapple Express, Rachel Getting Married, Revolutionary Road, Rian Johnson, Saibogujiman kwenchana, Sam Mendes, Sean Penn, Seven Pounds, Slumdog Millionaire, Snow Angels, Son of Rambow, Star Trek, Stop-Loss, Surveillance, Synecdoche New York, Taken, Tarsem Singh, Terminator Salvation, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The Brothers Bloom, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Fall, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The Informers, The Reader, The Wrestler, Todd Field, Towelhead, Transsiberian, Tropic Thunder, Up, Waltz with Bashir, Watchmen, Will Smith
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 14, 2008 · 4 Comments
“Googly, googly, go away” The first true masterpiece of 2008 has arrived just as we cross the mid-point of the year. Yes, the film did see its first release in 2006, however, after traveling through festivals, Tarsem Singh’s first feature in over six years debuts stateside to local theatres. The trailer alone shows how spectacular […]
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 6, 2008 · Leave a Comment
“Money or love?” Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day indeed. And quite the day it was. Here is the “governess of last resort,” a daughter of a vicar, raised in a sheltered world of modesty. After butting heads with her previous employers due to their lack of courtesy, manners, and morals, Miss Pettigrew finds herself […]
Category comedy, film reviews, romance · Tags Amy Adams, Ciarán Hinds, Enchanted, Fargo, Frances McDormand, Junebug, Lee Pace, Margot at the Wedding, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Pushing Daisies, There Will Be Blood
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