Posted by Jared Mobarak on January 11, 2014 · Leave a Comment
“To serving our country” I’d like to say it’s surprising how an Oscar nominated director like Lee Daniels can find trouble financing a film with the type of sprawling depiction of the civil rights movement The Butler (sorry Warner Bros., I’m ignoring your lawsuit) possesses, but one doesn’t have to look past the fact everything […]
Category biography, drama, film reviews · Tags Alan Rickman, Cuba Gooding Jr., Danny Strong, David Oyelowo, Elijah Kelley, Forest Whitaker, Forrest Gump, James Marsden, John Cusack, Laura Ziskin, Lee Daniel's The Butler, Lee Daniels, Lenny Kravitz, Nelsan Ellis, Oprah Winfrey, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, Terrence Howard, Wil Haygood, Yaya Alafia
Posted by Jared Mobarak on November 23, 2013 · Leave a Comment
“Remember who the real enemy is” The aspect author Suzanne Collins included in Catching Fire that was more or less absent in The Hunger Games can be summed up with the above quote. While Panem’s dystopia provided a common antagonist for the surviving twelve districts of a revolution their Capital won seventy-four years previous, the […]
Category action/adventure, film reviews, science fiction · Tags Amanda Plummer, Donald Sutherland, Elizabeth Banks, Francis Lawrence, Gary Ross, Jeffrey Wright, Jena Malone, Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Lenny Kravitz, Liam Hemsworth, Michael Arndt, Patrick St. Esprit, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Sam Claflin, Simon Beaufoy, Stanley Tucci, Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, Willow Shields, Woody Harrelson
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 24, 2012 · Leave a Comment
“Thank you for your consideration” Underdogs thrive on the ability to retain hope in a world forever shoving them into a corner without the reality of upward mobility or a true chance at overall social change. When they start to believe their numbers can actually overcome that adversity, however, the ruling class must take notice […]
Category action/adventure, drama, film reviews, science fiction · Tags Alexander Ludwig, Amandla Stenberg, Billy Ray, Brendan Gleeson, Bruno Delbonnel, Clint Eastwood, Donald Sutherland, Elizabeth Banks, Gary Ross, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Jacqueline Emerson, Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Lenny Kravitz, Liam Hemsworth, Pleasantville, Stanley Tucci, Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Toby Jones, Tom Stern, Twilight, Wes Bentley, Winter’s Bone, Woody Harrelson
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 3, 2012 · Leave a Comment
“Again, music to slit your wrists to” It was a batty animated music video lasting almost seven minutes for “Paranoid Android” that made me go out and buy OK Computer. Still in high school, I thought the album was the best thing I had ever heard and played it to death before finding out from […]
Category documentary, film reviews, musical/concert · Tags Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Grant Gee, Jonny Greenwood, Late Show with David Letterman, Lenny Kravitz, Meeting People is Easy, Michael Stipe, Phil Selway, Radiohead, REM, Thom Yorke, Tom Cruise
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 9, 2011 · 9 Comments
(short and sweet and to the point; culled from listening to 501 releases—at time of publishing—from 2011. ask me tomorrow and the list will probably be drastically different, but you have to lock ’em in sometime. click album cover for website) Honorable Mention:
Category top 10 albums by year, top 10 lists · Tags Adele, Alexander, Amos Lee, Architecture in Helsinki, Arctic Monkeys, Beady Eye, Beirut, Ben Howard, Bison, Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears, Bombay Bicycle Club, Bon Iver, Bright Eyes, Cansei de Ser Sexy, Centro-matic, Charles Bradley, City and Colour, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Cold Cave, Cold War Kids, Coldplay, Cults, Cut Copy, DeVotchKa, Drake, Dream Theater, Dum Dum Girls, Electric Six, Eskimo Joe, Explosions in the Sky, Feist, Fleet Foxes, Florence and the Machine, Foster the People, Fountains Of Wayne, Frank Turner, Friendly Fires, Friska Viljor, Fruit Bats, Givers, Glasvegas, Holy Ghost!, Hunx and His Punx, Hurricane Bells, Immanu El, Incubus, Iron & Wine, J Mascis, John Ralston, Justice, Kaiser Chiefs, Katharina Nuttall, Kurt Vile, Ladytron, Lenny Kravitz, Little Dragon, Los Campesinos!, Lupe Fiasco, Lykke Li, M83, Manchester Orchestra, Mates of State, Mayer Hawthorne, Middle Brother, Moby, Mogwai, Mother Mother, MuteMath, My Morning Jacket, Neon Indian, Nicole Atkins, Noah and the Whale, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Okkervil River, Patrick Wolf, Peter Bjorn and John, Portugal. The Man, Release the Sunbird, Ryan Adams, SBTRKT, She Wants Revenge, Smith Westerns, Tennis, The Airborne Toxic Event, The Antlers, The Belle Brigade, The Black Keys, The Boxer Rebellion, The Civil Wars, The Dear Hunter, The Dears, The Decemberists, The Dodos, The Drums, The Duke Spirit, The Features, The Head and the Heart, The Horrors, The Kills, The Kooks, The Pierces, The Rifles, The Roots, The Rosebuds, The Rural Alberta Advantage, The Sorry Kisses, The Sounds, The Strokes, The Vaccines, The War on Drugs, Thirteen Senses, Toro Y Moi, Tyler Ramsey, Uh Huh Her, Vanaprasta, VHS or Beta, Washed Out, We Are Augustines, We Were Promised Jetpacks, White Lies, Wilco, Young the Giant, Yuck, Zola Jesus
Posted by Jared Mobarak on May 5, 2010 · 1 Comment
Keith Haverbrook, Eric Schoman & Jeff Mayfield make up the directing collective known as Keith Schofield. It’s an award-winning team from Los Angeles, CA that has been crafting very innovative music videos since 2004, almost all of which utilize some sort of camera trick, using the artifice of the medium to lend a unique visual […]
Category film reviews, music video · Tags Adele, Beck, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Cremaster, CSS, Death Cab for Cutie, Eric Schoman, Fatboy Slim, Jeff Mayfield, Jus†ice, Keith Haverbrook, Keith Schofield, Ladyhawke, Lenny Kravitz, Matthew Barney, Michel Gondry, MIMS, Minus the Bear, Soundgarden, Supergrass, The Brighton Port Authority, The Ting Tings, Wintergreen
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 9, 2009 · 2 Comments
“A Day at the Shore” About halfway through watching Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire I started to think about another dark and dismal drama about abuse. The comparison to Requiem for a Dream was very hard to remove from my consciousness, both with the subject matter and the stylish way in which […]
Category drama, film reviews · Tags Chyna Layne, Darren Aronofsky, Gabourney Sidibe, Geoffrey Fletcher, Lee Daniels, Lenny Kravitz, Mariah Carey, Mo’Nique, Paula Patton, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, Requiem for a Dream, Xosha Roquemore
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