Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 24, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Below is my December 24th ballot for the 21st annual Online Film Critics Society Awards honoring movies released domestically in the United States during the 2017 calendar year. Group winners are highlighted in red. (We were only allowed to vote for one nominee per category this year, but I ranked them all like previous years […]
Category essays, top 10 films, z.slideshow · Tags A Ghost Story, Aaron Sorkin, Allison Janney, Armie Hammer, Benny Safdie, BPM (Beats Per Minute), Brooklynn Prince, Call Me By Your Name, Christopher Nolan, Coco, Cynthia Nixon, Dafne Keen, Dan Laustsen, Daniel Kaluuya, Darius Khondji, Dawson City: Frozen Time, Dunkirk, Ex Libris: New York Public Library, Faces Places, First They Killed My Father, Frances McDormand, Gary Oldman, Get Out, Greta Gerwig, Guillermo del Toro, Holly Hunter, Hoyte Van Hoytema, In This Corner of the World, James Franco, James Gray, James Ivory, Jane, Jonathan Amos, Jordan Peele, Lady Bird, Laurie Metcalf, Lee Smith, Loving Vincent, Margot Robbie, Mary J. Blige, Michael H. Weber, Michael Stuhlbarg, Mother, Mudbound, Nocturama, OFCS, Online Film Critics Society, Patrick Stewart, Paul Machliss, Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread, Rachel Morrison, Raw, Richard Jenkins, Robert Pattinson, Roger Deakins, Ronald Bronstein, Sally Hawkins, Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan, Scott Neustadter, Sidney Wolinsky, Sofia Coppola, Tatiana S. Riegel, The Breadwinner, The Florida Project, The LEGO Batman Movie, The Post, The Shape of Water, The Square, The Work, Thelma, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Tiffany Haddish, Timothée Chalamet, Vanessa Taylor
Posted by Jared Mobarak on August 24, 2017 · Leave a Comment
“Cross the room if you’ve ever felt lonely” The first person we meet in Josh and Benny Safdie‘s Good Time isn’t its lead Connie Nikas (Robert Pattinson). Before he enters the picture to propel the film towards its kinetic search for ten grand, things begin much slower and much quieter with his brother Nick (played […]
Category drama, film reviews, suspense/thriller · Tags Benny Safdie, Good Time, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Josh Safdie, Peter Verby, Robert Pattinson, Ronald Bronstein, Saida Mansoor, Taliah Webster
Posted by Jared Mobarak on April 24, 2017 · Leave a Comment
“We are all made from the same clay” I should have known The Lost City of Z wasn’t to be your regular old adventure picture of men on an expedition since James Gray was at the helm. He’s always been one for character studies delving deeper than the situation at hand to hit upon the […]
Category action/adventure, biography, drama, film reviews · Tags Angus Macfadyen, Charlie Hunnam, David Grann, Edward Ashley, Embrace of the Serpent, James Gray, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller, The Lost City of Z, Tom Holland
Posted by Jared Mobarak on November 8, 2014 · 1 Comment
“… Liberty” There are many versions of Hollywood I would never wish to live within—including the real one—but it appears those crafted by Bruce Wagner might be the most nightmarishly hedonistic, vile, and depressingly pathetic. A man who grew up in Los Angeles via Wisconsin and probably experienced many of the selfish acts of depravity […]
Category drama, film reviews · Tags Angelo Badalamenti, Bruce Wagner, Carrie Fisher, David Cronenberg, Evan Bird, Howard Shore, I'm Losing You, John Cusack, Julianne Moore, Justin Bieber, Lindsay Lohan, Maps to the Stars, Mia Wasikowska, Mulholland Drive, Robert Pattinson, Sarah Gadon
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 2, 2014 · 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 22 Jump Street, Aaron Paul, Albert Nobbs, Alex van Warmerdam, BLT Communications LLC, Borgman, Cardinal Communications USA, Chris Evans, Clint Eastwood, Coherence, Cold Open, Concept Arts, Creative Partnership, David Ives, Doug Liman, Edge of Tomorrow, Emily Baldoni, Emily Blunt, Gravillis Inc., Guy Pearce, Hellion, Hunger, Ignition, James Franco, Jamie Bell, Jan Bijvoet, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jeremy Saunders, Jersey Boys, John Goodman, John Hurt, Juan Luis Garcia, Lawrence Fishburne, Le Cercle Noir, Liam Neeson, Mark Wahlberg, Meagan Good, Nicholas Brendon, P+A, Paul Haggis, Robert Pattinson, Snowpiercer, The Boland Design Company, The Desolation of Smaug, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Hobbit, The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz, The Last Sentence, The Moment, The Refinery, The Rover, The Sacrament, The Signal, Think Like a Man Too, Third Person, Tom Cruise, Transformers: Age of Extinction, Venus in Fur, WORKS ADV
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 November 24, 2012 · Leave a Comment
“Should I start calling you Dad?” **contains spoilers as far as its major difference from the book** I’m going to applaud The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 for two reasons. One, it signals what we can hope and pray will be the last adventure inside Stephenie Meyer‘s angst-ridden, melodramatic world of supernaturals—until the planned […]
Category action/adventure, fantasy, film reviews, romance · Tags Bill Condon, Cam Gigandet, Casey LaBow, Dakota Fanning, Guillermo del Toro, Guillermo Navarro, Heroes, Joe Anderson, Judith Shekoni, Kristen Stewart, Lee Pace, Mackenzie Foy, Maggie Grace, Melissa Rosenberg, Michael Sheen, Rami Malek, Robert Pattinson, Stephenie Meyer, Taylor Lautner, The Last Airbender, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2, Twilight, X-Men
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 December 20, 2011 · Leave a Comment
“Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies” Here’s a pitch for a new Trojan Condoms’ advertising campaign tie-in to The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1: Even Vampires Need Protection. Yes, the entire film could have been struck from the record if only Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) was a responsible hundreds-year old creeper when de-flowering […]
Category drama, film reviews, horror, romance · Tags Anna Kendrick, Bill Condon, Billy Burke, Elizabeth Reaser, Kellan Lutz, Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Foy, Nikki Reed, Peter Facinelli, Robert Pattinson, Sarah Clarke, Stephenie Meyer, Taylor Lautner, The Twilight Saga, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Posted by Jared Mobarak on November 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment
“I’d rather you be really dead than one of them” I’m not saying Twilight was a masterpiece, but it did hold promise—promise that its successors have done little to uphold. An overly melodramatic adolescent romance, the first film knew what it was and had enough exposition and story to hold things together through the schmaltzy […]
Category drama, film reviews, horror, romance · Tags Bryce Dallas Howard, Dakota Fanning, David Slade, Gil Birmingham, Jackson Rathbone, Kristen Stewart, Melissa Rosenberg, Nikki Reed, Robert Pattinson, Stephenie Meyer, Taylor Lautner, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Twilight, Xavier Samuel
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 13, 2010 · 1 Comment
“You’d sacrifice your life for one of us?” You know it’s pretty bad when the second film of a ‘saga’ can have absolutely no resolution, literally start and end without adding anything to the tale but a bridge to link the first to the third, and yet be more entertaining than the original. Twilight worked […]
Category fantasy, film reviews, horror, romance · Tags Ashley Greene, Cameron Bright, Chris Weitz, Dakota Fanning, Eclipse, Kristen Stewart, Michael Sheen, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, The Twilight Saga, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, True Blood, Twilight
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