Posted by Jared Mobarak on April 5, 2014 · Leave a Comment
“Who’s got the throat-slitter?” The films of Wes Anderson have always resided in some sort of parallel universe full of stylistic flights of fancy, but never has one been so completely defined by its fantasy than The Grand Budapest Hotel. His previous work exists to pay homage with stories filled to the brim by aesthetic […]
Category comedy, drama, film reviews · Tags Adrien Brody, Bill Murray, Bob Balaban, Edward Norton, F. Murray Abraham, Harvey Keitel, Hugo Guinness, Jude Law, Mathieu Amalric, Ralph Fiennes, Saoirse Ronan, Stefan Zweig, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Royal Tenenbaums, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson, Tony Revolori, Wes Anderson, Willem Dafoe
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 5, 2012 · Leave a Comment
“My prostate is asymmetrical” Thematically more like what David Cronenberg created before his last three films; I’m not quite sure what to think about Cosmopolis. Faithfully adapted from a novel by Don DeLillo, its look inside the day of billionaire magnate Eric Packer (Robert Pattinson) skews closest to the hellish descents behind the director’s eXistenZ […]
Category drama, film reviews · Tags American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis, Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg, Don DeLillo, Emily Hampshire, eXistenZ, George Touliatos, Jay Baruchel, Juliette Binoche, K'Naan, Kevin Durand, Mathieu Amalric, Patricia McKenzie, Paul Giamatti, Philip Nozuka, Robert Pattinson, Samantha Morton, Sarah Gadon, Videodrome, Zeljko Kecojevic
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment
“You, you, you, you are so pretty!” Sometimes an image can get you excited to see a film. When looking to fill a hole in a five film day at TIFF, my friend and I saw an image that looked both fantastical and intriguing, so much so that we blindly said yes, we are going […]
Category drama, film features, film festival, film reviews, toronto international film festival · Tags Cremaster, Face, Fanny Ardant, François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Kang-sheng Lee, Laetitia Casta, Mathieu Amalric, Matthew Barney, Ming-liang Tsai, Visage
Posted by Jared Mobarak on November 13, 2008 · Leave a Comment
“You only need one shot” Wow, remember when Casino Royale came on the scene to give the Bond franchise a shot of adrenaline that no one expected? How Daniel Craig brought grit and realism to a series slowly finding its way into parody and gadgetry while trying to make up for the fact leading man Pierce Brosnan was […]
Category action/adventure, film reviews · Tags Casino Royale, Daniel Craig, Finding Neverland, Giancarlo Giannini, James Bond, Jeffrey Wright, Marc Forster, Mathieu Amalric, Olga Kurylenko, Paul Haggis, Quantum of Solace, Stay, Stranger Than Fiction
Posted by Jared Mobarak on January 27, 2008 · Leave a Comment
“We are all children” The tale of Jean-Dominique Bauby and his harrowing ordeal of being locked-in his own body after a debilitating stroke is devastating. I can’t wait to finally start reading it—it’s a bit down the queue, but has gone up a few spots after seeing the film—however, after watching the film version, I […]
Category drama, film reviews, foreign · Tags Basquiat, Before Night Falls, Emmanuelle Seigner, French, Javier Bardem, Jeffrey Wright, Julian Schnabel, Le scaphandre et le papillon, Marie-Josée Croze, Mathieu Amalric, Max von Sydow, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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