Posted by Jared Mobarak on February 20, 2019 · Leave a Comment
The 90th Annual Academy Awards hits airwaves Sunday, February 24th, 2019 at 8:00pm on ABC. For those handicapping at home, here are the guesses of Buffalo film fanatics Christopher Schobert, William Altreuter, and myself. Jared Mobarak: It’s the type of year where hashtags rhetoric simply won’t work. There’s just not one all encapsulating buzzword to […]
Category essays, oscars, z.slideshow · Tags A Star Is Born, Academy Awards, Adam Driver, Adam McKay, Alfonso Cuarón, Amy Adams, At Eternity's Gate, Barry Jenkins, Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, Bohemian Rhapsody, Bradley Cooper, Brian Currie, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Charlie Wachtel, Christian Bale, Christopher Schobert, Cold War, David Rabinowitz, Deborah Davi, Emma Stone, Eric Roth, Ethan Coen, First Reformed, Glenn Close, Green Book, If Beale Street Could Talk, Jeff Whitty, Joel Coen, Kevin Willmott, Lady Gaga, Mahershala Ali, Marina de Tavira, Melissa McCarthy, Nick Vallelonga, Nicole Holofcener, Olivia Colman, Oscars, Paul Schrader, Pawel Pawlikowski, Peter Farrelly, Rachel Weisz, Rami Malek, Regina King, Richard E. Grant, Roma, Sam Elliott, Sam Rockwell, Spike Lee, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, The Favourite, The Wife, Tony McNamara, Vice, Viggo Mortensen, Will Fetters, Willem Dafoe, William Altreuter, Yalitza Aparicio, Yorgos Lanthimos
Posted by Jared Mobarak on February 2, 2019 · Leave a Comment
“I’ll thank you to look after the dog” A title like The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot is making very specific promises and writer/director Robert D. Krzykowski doesn’t disappoint. Calvin Barr (Aidan Turner in flashback) did kill Adolf Hitler and Calvin Barr (Sam Elliott in present day) will be recruited to hunt […]
Category action/adventure, drama, film reviews · Tags Aidan Turner, Caitlin FitzGerald, Larry Miller, Nikolai Tsankov, Rizwan Manji, Robert D. Krzykowski, Ron Livingston, Sam Elliott, The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 27, 2018 · Leave a Comment
“I love the way she sees them” It began with Hollywood as William A. Wellman and Robert Carson won an Oscar for their story about a young actress dreaming of super stardom in 1937. From there it went the way of the movie musical thanks to Judy Garland taking the lead before earning six nominations […]
Category drama, film reviews, musical/concert, romance · Tags A Star Is Born, Andrew Dice Clay, Anthony Ramos, Bradley Cooper, Eric Roth, Lady Gaga, Lukas Nelson, Rafi Gavron, Robert Carson, Sam Elliott, Will Fetters, William A. Wellman
Posted by Jared Mobarak on July 22, 2017 · 1 Comment
“You can’t outrun destiny, amigo” Death is the great equalizer and one true certainty in life. That doesn’t mean we’re prepared for its sudden or prolonged arrival, though. If anything it forces us to take stock of achievements and mistakes, knowing that the time we believed we had to fix the latter was about to […]
Posted by Jared Mobarak on November 23, 2015 · 1 Comment
“Look who got relevated” You constantly hear about movies needing reshoots, but The Good Dinosaur‘s troubles went beyond cosmetic enhancements into full-blown emergency room triage. I’m talking two years of development before a release date announcement, two more before that date and original director Bob Peterson (who came up with the story alongside his directorial […]
Category action/adventure, animation, comedy, family, film reviews · Tags A.J. Buckley, Adventure Time, Anna Paquin, Bob Peterson, Dumbo, Finding Nemo, Frances McDormand, Inside Out, Jack Bright, Jeffrey Wright, Maleah Nipay-Padilla, Marcus Scribner, Meg LeFauve, Peter Sohn, Raymond Ochoa, Sam Elliott, Steve Zahn, The Good Dinosaur, The Lion King, Toy Story, WALL•E
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 9, 2012 · Leave a Comment
“We made mistakes, but we were right” In Robert Redford and Lem Dobbs‘ adaptation of Neil Gordon‘s novel The Company You Keep, the personal futures fought for by the militant Weather Underground during the Vietnam War risk being destroyed as the last surviving members of a Bank of Michigan robbery find their past catching up […]
Category drama, film features, film festival, film reviews, suspense/thriller, toronto international film festival · Tags Anna Kendrick, Brendan Gleeson, Brit Marling, Chris Cooper, Jackie Evancho, Julie Christie, Lem Dobbs, Neil Gordon, Nick Nolte, Richard Jenkins, Sam Elliott, Shia LaBeouf, Susan Sarandon, Terrence Howard, The Company You Keep, The Conspirator, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment
“You may kiss the bride” Why do I put myself through it? Every once in a while, those trailers for derivative romantic comedies hide behind them a diamond in the rough. Sometimes you can look at your date for the evening and genuinely say you enjoyed the film, and not just to put a smile […]
Category comedy, film reviews, romance · Tags David Call, Did You Hear About the Morgans?, Elisabeth Moss, Hugh Grant, Jesse Liebman, Kim Shaw, Mad Men, Marc Lawrence, Mary Steenburgen, Michael Kelly, Sam Elliott, Sarah Jessica Parker
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 14, 2008 · Leave a Comment
“Days since last incident” Leave it to this drama lover to think that the new film The Incredible Hulk is more boring than Ang Lee’s Hulk from 2003, despite the fact everyone in the entire world hated that version because it was “too slow”. Maybe it was the departure in genre tone that Lee brought to […]
Category action/adventure, film reviews, science fiction · Tags Ang Lee, Batman Begins, Danny the Dog, Ed Norton, Eric Bana, Hulk, Iron Man, Jennifer Connelly, Liv Tyler, Louis Leterrier, Luc Besson, Nick Nolte, Sam Elliott, The Incredible Hulk, The Transporter, Tim Roth, William Hurt, Zak Penn
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 10, 2007 · Leave a Comment
“Just a small little cut” I have thought that Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy would make some very interesting films ever since I read them almost a decade ago. The fantasy and utter intrigue that they instilled in me never left my consciousness. When I heard that American Pie director Chris Weitz would be […]
Category action/adventure, family, fantasy, film reviews · Tags About a Boy, American Pie, Chris Weitz, Dakota Blue Richards, Daniel Craig, Eva Green, His Dark Materials, Ian McKellen, Ian McShane, Nicole Kidman, Philip Pullman, Sam Elliott, The Golden Compass
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