Posted by Jared Mobarak on February 15, 2018 · Leave a Comment
“We had to maintain the lie” It’s easy to forget how important Creed was to getting this specific Black Panther made. From Wesley Snipes wanting to get something off the ground in the 1990s to Kevin Feige courting Ava DuVernay as director post-Selma success, things could have been very different. Hiring Ryan Coogler before his […]
Category action/adventure, film reviews, science fiction, z.slideshow · Tags Andy Serkis, Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman, Danai Jekesai Gurira, Daniel Kaluuya, Forest Whitaker, Joe Robert Cole, John Kani, Kevin Feige, Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong’o, Martin Freeman, Michael B. Jordan, Michael P. Shawver, Rachel Morrison, Ryan Coogler, Winston Duke
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 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 January 27, 2014 · Leave a Comment
“Release?” It’s an Oscar nominated short film and yet I thank The Voorman Problem not for its entertaining wit or Martin Freeman‘s outburst of hilarity at its end, but instead for it cementing my need to start reading David Mitchell. Yes, the author of Cloud Atlas is the main inspiration behind director Mark Gill and […]
Category comedy, drama, film reviews, shorts · Tags Baldwin Li, Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell, Hanna, Mark Gill, Martin Freeman, number9dream, Pirates of the Caribbean, Simon Griffiths, The Hobbit, The Office, The Voorman Problem, Tom Hollander
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 10, 2013 · Leave a Comment
“I could have anything down my trousers” There is a certain charm to the middle section of a book where characters met start to come into their own before the big climax. It’s a crucial section, one its bookends need to truly succeed. However, when a single work of fiction is stretched and divided into […]
Category action/adventure, drama, fantasy, film reviews · Tags An Unexpected Journey, Benedict Cumberbatch, Clerks II, Evangeline Lilly, Ian McKellen, J.R.R. Tolkien, Luke Evans, Martin Freeman, Mikael Persbrandt, Orlando Bloom, Peter Jackson, Richard Armitage, The Battle of the Five Armies, The Desolation of Smaug, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 2, 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 28 Days Later, 47 Ronin, Adam McKay, Alice Eve, American Hustle, Amy Adams, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, ARSONAL, Art Machine A Trailer Park Company, aSquared Design Group, August: Osage County, AV Squad, Ben Stiller, Blood & Chocolate, BLT Communications LLC, BOND, Boogie Nights, BULLDOG, Cold Open, David Koechner, Grudge Match, Her, Ignition Print, Inside Llewyn Davis, Jennifer Lawrence, Joaquin Phoenix, Jon Bernthal, Jordan Belfort, Josh Brolin, Kanye West, Kate Winslet, Kevin Hart, Killer Joe, Labor Day, Last Days on Mars, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Freeman, Martin Scorsese, Midnight Oil Creative, Mission to Mars, Oscar Isaac, Outer Arc, Peter Jackson, Red Planet, Robert De Niro, Some Velvet Morning, Spike Jonze, SportsCenter, Stanley Tucci, Statement Advertising, Sylvester Stallone, Terry Gilliam, The Desolation of Smaug, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Wolf of Wall Street, Tracy Letts, Walking with Dinosaurs, Will Ferrell
Posted by Jared Mobarak on August 24, 2013 · Leave a Comment
“Lets Boo-Boo” The Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy—a label jokingly coined during the press tour for its second entry—has come to a close with a mint chocolate chip wrapper flapping in the wind. Following horror comedy Shaun of the Dead and bromance actioner Hot Fuzz, The World’s End‘s sci-fi apocalypse makes good use of its title […]
Category comedy, film reviews, science fiction · Tags David Bradley, Eddie Marsan, Edgar Wright, Hot Fuzz, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Martin Freeman, Michael Smiley, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Paul, Pierce Brosnan, Rosamund Pike, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Shaun of the Dead, Simon Pegg, Spaced, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The World's End
Posted by Jared Mobarak on July 27, 2013 · Leave a Comment
“So long and thanks for all the fish” It took a quarter century for Douglas Adams‘ seminal work The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy to hit the big screen, but it was worth the wait. Well, I’m probably not the authoritative word on such a statement considering the book series has rested unread on my […]
Category comedy, film reviews, science fiction · Tags Alan Rickman, Anna Chancellor, Bill Bailey, Bill Nighy, Douglas Adams, Garth Jennings, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, Karey Kirkpatrick, Kelly MacDonald, Martin Freeman, Mos Def, Nick Goldsmith, Sam Rockwell, Stephen Fry, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Hobbit, Thomas Lennon, Warwick Davis, Zooey Deschanel
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 11, 2012 · Leave a Comment
“Home is now behind you” It’s hard to return to Middle Earth without thinking about Randal Graves from Clerks II and his defense of Star Wars possessing as its cornerstone the fact Peter Jackson‘s film version of J.R.R. Tolkien‘s Lord of the Rings trilogy was all a bunch of people walking. He’s not wrong. What […]
Category action/adventure, fantasy, film reviews · Tags Aidan Turner, An Unexpected Journey, Andy Serkis, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee, Clerks II, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Dean O'Gorman, Elijah Wood, Fran Walsh, Guillermo del Toro, Hugo Weaving, Ian Holm, Ian McKellen, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Fogarty, Manu Bennett, Martin Freeman, Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens, Richard Armitage, Sylvester McCoy, The Desolation of Smaug, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 3, 2012 · 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 A Serious Man, Amour, An Unexpected Journey, Art Machine A Trailer Park Company, Bemis Belkind, BLT Communications LLC, Brian De Palma, BULLDOG, Carnival Studio, Christian Bale, Cradle Will Rock, Crew Creative Advertising, Dave Eggers, Django Unchained, Good Will Hunting, Gus Van Sant, High Fidelity, Horrible Bosses, Ignition Print, Isabelle Allen, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jack Kerouac, Jack Reacher, Jamie Foxx, Jessica Chastain, John Krasinski, Joshua Jackson, Judd Apatow, Kathryn Bigelow, Knocked Up, Lay the Favorite, Le Cercle Noir, Lee Child, Leonardo DiCaprio, Les Misérables, Leslie Mann, Lucy Liu, Martin Freeman, Matt Damon, Michael Haneke, Michael Stuhlbarg, Mission: Impossible, Modern Family, On the Road, P+A, Parental Guidance, Paul Rudd, Peter Jackson, Playing for Keeps, Promised Land, Quentin Tarantino, Redacted, Saul Bass, Sawyer Studios, Stephen Frears, The Cimarron Group, The Grifters, The Hobbit, The Impossible, The Queen, This is 40, Tom Cruise, Vertigo, Villuti Creative Studio, Vince Vaughn, Vox and Associates, Wreck-It Ralph, Zero Dark Thirty
Posted by Jared Mobarak on February 2, 2007 · Leave a Comment
“I’m prepared to maim and kill for that to happen” I’ve been on a bit of a British kick lately after getting an all-region dvd player and some UK Region 2 discs. At the moment I have been checking out the hilarious series “Spaced” from the guys behind the hilarious Shaun of the Dead. One […]
Category comedy, film reviews · Tags Best in Show, Christopher Guest, Confetti, Debbie Isitt, For Your Consideration, Jason Watkins, Jessica Stevenson, Mark Heap, Martin Freeman, Meredith MacNeill, Olivia Colman, Parker Posey, Robert Webb, Shaun of the Dead, Spaced, Stephen Mangan, The Office, Vincent Franklin
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