Posted by Jared Mobarak on February 2, 2015 · Leave a Comment
“I know karate” Don’t let the wide-eyed giddiness of Ryan Reynolds‘ Jerry Hickfang fool you. There’s darkness inside him that simply hasn’t yet been coaxed out into the open. It may take a little while to see it in full force so you can truly comprehend what is going on with the Edward Scissorhands-esque bright […]
Category comedy, film reviews, horror, suspense/thriller · Tags Anna Kendrick, Death to Smoochy, Edward Scissorhands, Gemma Arterton, Jacki Weaver, Marjane Satrapi, Michael R. Perry, Persepolis, Ryan Reynolds, The Voices
Posted by Jared Mobarak on July 30, 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 11:24 Design Advertising, 2 Days in New York, 2 Days in Paris, 20th Century Fox Domestic Theatrical Creative Advertising, 360, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Adventure Time, Andy Samberg, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Art Machine A Trailer Park Company, Being There, Bemis Balkind, Blood & Chocolate, BLT Communications LLC, Bruce Willis, Cardinal Communications USA, Celeste & Jesse Forever, Chicken with Plums, Clarke Peters, Cold Open, Colin Farrell, Compliance, Cosmopolis, Crew Creative Advertising, Danny Aiello, Dave Perillo, David Cronenberg, Diane Keaton, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, Do the Right Thing, Dreama Walker, Drew McWeeny, Drew Millward, Eastern Promises, For a Good Time Call …, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Glen Brogan, Graham Erwin, Gravillis Inc., Hope Springs, Iconisus L&Y - Visual Communication Systems, Ignition Print, It's Complicated, Jack Nicholson, Jay Chandrasekhar, Jeff Kinney, Jeremy Renner, John Cena, John Hawkes, Julie Delpy, Kustom Creative, Like Crazy, Little Friends of Printmaking, Machete, Marjane Satrapi, Mark W. Carroll, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Meryl Streep, Mondo Tees, monsieur x studio, Moovie, Olivia Munn, ParaNorman, Paul Greengrass, Paul Schneider, People Like Us, Persepolis, Psychosis, Rashida Jones, Red Hook Summer, Revolutionary Road, Robert Capron, Robert Ludlum, Robert Pattinson, Silenzio Communication, Something's Gotta Give, Source Code, Sparkle, Spike Lee, Stockholm Design, Sunshine, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Apparition, The Babymakers, The Bourne Legacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Campaign, The Day, The Expendables 2, The Possession, The Refinery, The Tree of Life, Tommy Lee Jones, Total Recall, Twilight, Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis
Posted by Jared Mobarak on April 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment
I’ve finally come to the realization that the people who go to events such as Babel and another artsy affairs generally lean to the left. When tonight’s speaker, the Iranian author/artist Marjane Satrapi, relayed that this was the point where she would usually spend ten minutes bashing Bush, the crowd burst into uproarious laughter and […]
Category essays, lecture reviews · Tags A.S. Byatt, Azar Nafisi, Babel, Ha Jin, Isabel Allende, Just Buffalo Literary Center, Marjane Satrapi, Midnight’s Children, Persepolis, Possession, Reading Lolita in Tehran, Salman Rushdie, Waiting ...
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 25, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Welcome to the start of the sold out second season to Just Buffalo Literary Center’s Babel. Get out there and start roaming the internet and streets for scalpers because it is a series you won’t want to miss. If you thought last year’s inaugural line-up was good, you can’t fathom the heavyweights on this season’s […]
Category essays, lecture reviews · Tags Babel, Chinua Achebe, Isabel Allende, Just Buffalo Literary Center, Marjane Satrapi, Michael Ondaatje, Persepolis, The English Patient, The House of Spirits, Things Fall Apart
Posted by Jared Mobarak on February 13, 2008 · Leave a Comment
“ABBA is for wimps” Here we have France’s official entry for foreign film at the Oscars, the animated film Persepolis. This intrigues me for many reasons. One, it is a cartoon and almost destined for the nod in that category; two, it is about Iran, by an Iranian who took France as an adopted home […]
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