Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 23, 2019 · Leave a Comment
“I lost something that should have been immortal” Theo Decker (Oakes Fegley) lost a lot one fateful day at The Metropolitan Museum of Art when an unexplained terrorist bombing took his mother, home, stability, and, most importantly, his childhood away. One second he’s stealing a glimpse of the young girl (Aimee Laurence‘s Pippa) beside him […]
Category drama, film reviews · Tags Aimee Laurence, Aneurin Barnard, Ansel Elgort, Ashleigh Cummings, Denis O'Hare, Donna Tartt, Finn Wolfhard, Jeffrey Wright, John Crowley, Luke Wilson, Nicky Torchia, Nicole Kidman, Oakes Fegley, Peter Straughan, Ryan Foust, Sarah Paulson, The Goldfinch
Posted by Jared Mobarak on January 18, 2019 · Leave a Comment
“Let’s see if it’s your time” It’s billed as a down and dirty revenge flick with some calling it a redundant variation on a theme “better” films already delivered. That’s not how I see it, though. No, Karyn Kusama‘s latest is about guilt. Erin Bell (Nicole Kidman) isn’t drowning herself in alcohol and pushing everyone […]
Category action/adventure, drama, film reviews, z.slideshow · Tags Beau Knapp, Bradley Whitford, Destroyer, Jade Pettyjohn, James Jordan, Karyn Kusama, Matt Manfredi, Nicole Kidman, Phil Hay, Scoot McNairy, Sebastian Stan, Shamier Anderson, Tatiana Maslany, Toby Huss, Toby Kebbell, Zach Villa
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 17, 2018 · Leave a Comment
“It’s fish-MAN” Arthur Curry’s Aquaman has been known in mainstream pop culture circles as DC’s whipping boy for a long while since it’s easy to mock an orange spandex-wearing dude who talks to fish when measured against his “cooler” Justice League compatriots. “The Big Bang Theory” made jokes at his expense for a few seasons […]
Category action/adventure, fantasy, film reviews · Tags Amber Heard, Aquaman, David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, Dolph Lundgren, James Wan, Jason Momoa, Nicole Kidman, Patrick Wilson, Temuera Morrison, Will Beall, Willem Dafoe, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 5, 2018 · Leave a Comment
“Almighty Dog” I’ll never understand religion’s ability to shield believers from its inherent contradictions. I’ve seen faith help many in my family through its power for hope, healing, and positivity. But never have they been tested as far as making the choice to reject Catholicism’s rigidity where it pertains to subjects they’re simply happy to […]
Category biography, drama, film reviews · Tags Boy Erased, Britton Sear, Garrard Conley, Joel Edgerton, Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, Troye Sivan, Xavier Dolan
Posted by Jared Mobarak on January 6, 2018 · Leave a Comment
“Does anyone know where I can find a home?” I remember reading Michael Bond‘s Paddington Bear books when I was a kid and might have even had a duffle coat-wearing stuffed animal too. But I couldn’t tell you a thing about those stories if you put a gun to my head and asked. I recall […]
Category action/adventure, comedy, family, film reviews · Tags Ben Whishaw, Hugh Bonneville, Imelda Staunton, Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters, Madeleine Harris, Matt Lucas, Michael Bond, Michael Gambon, Nicole Kidman, Paddington, Paul King, Peter Capaldi, Sally Hawkins, Samuel Joslin, Tim Downie
Posted by Jared Mobarak on October 26, 2017 · Leave a Comment
“You’re too young to worry” Writer/director Yorgos Lanthimos is an artist who deals with consequences through elaborately skewed and often-uncomfortable scenarios just left of the off-putting spot that’s just left of center. He uses absurdity and humor to provoke us in order for his complex existential and social messages to hit home in a way […]
Category drama, film reviews, horror · Tags Barry Keoghan, Bill Camp, Colin Farrell, Efthymis Filippou, Nicole Kidman, Raffey Cassidy, Sunny Suljic, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Yorgos Lanthimos
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 29, 2017 · Leave a Comment
“I didn’t want you to be misled” There’s a lot to like about Don Siegel‘s 1971 adaptation of Thomas Cullinan‘s A Painted Devil. Unfortunately, there’s just as much left wanting. It built towards a tense finale of malicious intent, the kind that’s able to turn what was a simple wartime drama into a metaphorical representation […]
Category drama, film reviews, war · Tags Clint Eastwood, Colin Farrell, Don Siegel, Elle Fanning, Kirsten Dunst, Nicole Kidman, Sofia Coppola, The Beguiled, Thomas Cullinan
Posted by Jared Mobarak on February 17, 2017 · Leave a Comment
The 89th Annual Academy Awards hits airwaves Sunday, February 26th, 2017 at 8:30pm on ABC. Buffalonians can watch it from the comfort of their home or take a trip down to these local destinations: • The Screening Room, The Boulevard Mall Free (doors open at 7:00pm) • Buffalo State College, Campbell Student Union Free with […]
Category essays, oscars · Tags Allison Schroeder, Andrew Garfield, Arrival, August Wilson, Barry Jenkins, Casey Affleck, Christopher Schobert, Damien Chazelle, Denis Villeneuve, Denzel Washington, Dev Patel, Efthimis Flippou, Emma Stone, Eric Heisserer, Fences, Hacksaw Ridge, Hell or High Water, Hidden Figures, Isabelle Huppert, Jeff Bridges, Kenneth Lonergan, La La Land, Lion, Lucas Hedges, Luke Davies, Mahershala Ali, Manchester by the Sea, Mel Gibson, Meryl Streep, Michael Shannon, Michelle Williams, Mike Mills, Moonlight, Naomie Harris, Natalie Portman, Nicole Kidman, Octavia Spencer, Ruth Negga, Ryan Gosling, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Taylor Sheridan, Theodore Melfi, Viggo Mortensen, Viola Davis, William Altreuter, Yorgos Lanthimos
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 20, 2016 · Leave a Comment
“Fidelio” Would you gamble everything for lust? Is thinking about infidelity as egregious an offence as the act itself? After all, faithfulness isn’t merely a construct of the physical world—our trust and respect goes beyond the exterior into the very fibers of our being to make the words “I’d never cheat on you” flow effortlessly […]
Category drama, film reviews, holiday, suspense/thriller · Tags Arthur Schnitzler, Eyes Wide Shut, Frederic Raphael, Julienne Davis, Leelee Sobieski, Marie Richardson, Nicole Kidman, Rade Serbedzija, Sky du Mont, Stanley Kubrick, Sydney Pollack, Todd Field, Tom Cruise, Traumnovelle, Vinessa Shaw
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 16, 2016 · Leave a Comment
“Did you really look for my mum?” The Weinstein Company is lucky Google hasn’t moved into the film production game yet like tech giant Amazon (unless you count YouTube Red) or else they may not have secured the rights to one of 2016’s most upliftingly heart-wrenching movies of the year in Lion. We’re probably lucky […]
Category biography, drama, film reviews · Tags Abhishek Bharate, David Wenham, Dev Patel, Garth Davis, Keshav Jadhav, Khushi Solanki, Lion, Luke Davies, Nicole Kidman, Priyanka Bose, Rooney Mara, Saroo Brierley, Sunny Pawar
Posted by Jared Mobarak on May 2, 2016 · Leave a Comment
“Let this be your trumpet call: life is sweet so taste it while you still can” No one knows Nicole Kidman‘s strength as an actor quite like Nicole Kidman. It’s no secret that the choices she’s made post-Oscar win for The Hours have been somewhat questionable, but there was at least one fantastic gem in […]
Category comedy, drama, film reviews · Tags Bad Words, Christopher Walken, David Lindsay-Abaire, Jason Bateman, Jason Butler Harner, Kathryn Hahn, Kevin Wilson, Maryann Plunkett, Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole, Scott Shepherd, Steve Witting, The Family Fang
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