Posted by Jared Mobarak on August 7, 2017 · Leave a Comment
“Dear diary. Today I came home.” You can’t blame audiences for being skeptical about a prequel to a prequel to James Wan‘s acclaimed The Conjuring when the first proved a huge step down in quality. There was no way Annabelle would equal the level of contemporary horror classic that Wan’s look into the paranormal via […]
Category film reviews, horror · Tags Annabelle, Annabelle: Creation, Anthony LaPaglia, David F. Sandberg, Gary Dauberman, Grace Fulton, James Wan, John R. Leonetti, Lulu Wilson, Miranda Otto, Philippa Coulthard, Samara Lee, Stephanie Sigman, Talitha Bateman, The Conjuring
Posted by Jared Mobarak on May 14, 2017 · Leave a Comment
“Some things are certain” It’s crazy how perception can be shifted over the years if your mind focuses on one specific attribute of something. I thought The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King was the weakest of the trilogy after seeing it in theaters (and still do), but not by a lot. […]
Category action/adventure, drama, fantasy, film reviews · Tags Andy Serkis, Bernard Hill, Billy Boyd, Christopher Lee, David Wenham, Dominic Monaghan, Elijah Wood, Fran Walsh, Ian Holm, Ian McKellen, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Rhys-Davies, Liv Tyler, Miranda Otto, Orlando Bloom, Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens, Sean Astin, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, The Two Towers, Viggo Mortensen
Posted by Jared Mobarak on May 13, 2017 · Leave a Comment
“Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall” The second part of a trilogy is oftentimes the worst. It exists in a no man’s land without beginning or end, a bridge we must wait for and wait further to continue that cannot survive on its own. So it’s therefore a rarity when this chapter possesses […]
Category action/adventure, drama, fantasy, film reviews · Tags Andy Serkis, Bernard Hill, Billy Boyd, Brad Dourif, Christopher Lee, David Wenham, Dominic Monaghan, Elijah Wood, Fran Walsh, Ian McKellen, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Noble, John Rhys-Davies, Karl Urban, Miranda Otto, Orlando Bloom, Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens, Sean Astin, Sean Bean, Stephen Sinclair, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, Viggo Mortensen
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 9, 2014 · Leave a Comment
“God will strike you down” I didn’t necessarily love The Homesman, but it’s hard not to respect it. This is a dark story in the desolate Mid-West with outlaw justice and remorseless murder surrounding the charitably selfless journey of Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank) and the three crazed women she’s taking across the Missouri into […]
Category drama, film reviews, western · Tags Barry Corbin, Glendon Swarthout, Grace Gummer, Hailee Steinfeld, Hilary Swank, James Spader, John Lithgow, Kieran Fitzgerald, Meryl Streep, Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter, The Homesman, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Tim Blake Nelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Wesley A. Oliver, William Fichtner
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 3, 2010 · Leave a Comment
“The only things that are permanent is dying and the Lord” Pure, unfiltered, raw emotion. That is what’s front and center in Terrence Malick’s adaptation of James Jones’s autobiographical novel The Thin Red Line. The term itself may describe a thinly spread line of defense holding position in war, but I think the metaphor towards […]
Category #002 Terrence Malick, drama, film features, film marathons, film reviews, war · Tags Ben Chaplin, Criterion Collection, Elias Koteas, Hans Zimmer, James Caviezel, James Jones, John Cusack, John Savage, Miranda Otto, Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, Terrence Malick, The Thin Red Line
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