Posted by Jared Mobarak on January 22, 2018 · Leave a Comment
“One little thing” If the timeline is to be believed, the fourth meet-up between director Jaume Collet-Serra and Liam Neeson entitled The Commuter was the result of the latter rather than the former. Byron Willinger and Philip de Blasi‘s story went through the hands of at least two other stewards as well as a rewrite […]
Category drama, film reviews, suspense/thriller · Tags Adam Nagaitis, Andy Nyman, Byron Willinger, Clara Lago, Dean-Charles Chapman, Elizabeth McGovern, Ella-Rae Smith, Florence Pugh, Jaume Collet-Serra, Jonathan Banks, Liam Neeson, Patrick Wilson, Philip de Blasi, Roland Møller, Ryan Engle, Sam Neill, Shazad Latif, The Commuter, Vera Farmiga
Posted by Jared Mobarak on January 16, 2018 · 2 Comments
“What chance have we got?” Director Warwick Thornton immediately connected to childhood friend and co-writer David Tranter‘s (with Steven McGregor) script because it provided an authentic context for the historical treatment of their indigenous Central Australian tribes. Based on stories passed down by Tranter’s grandfather as well as Wilaberta Jack’s true life 1920s self-defense killing […]
Category drama, film reviews, western · Tags Anni Finsterer, Bryan Brown, David Tranter, Ewen Leslie, Gibson John, Hamilton Morris, Matt Day, Natassia Gorey Furber, Sam Neill, Steven McGregor, Sweet Country, Thomas M. Wright, Tremayne Doolan, Trevon Doolan, Warwick Thornton
Posted by Jared Mobarak on April 14, 2017 · Leave a Comment
“A man’s got to use every club he has” I’ve never been one for golf—playing or watching. I know many who feel the same and many of those who found themselves becoming fans during Tiger Woods’ heyday anyway. You can’t blame them for it either. Celebrity, national pride, and the excitement surrounding both are tough […]
Category biography, drama, film reviews, sports · Tags Jack Lowden, Jason Connery, Jim Kreutzer, Kevin Cook, Max Deacon, Ophelia Lovibond, Pamela Marin, Peter Ferdinando, Peter Mullan, Sam Neill, Therese Bradley, Tommy's Honour
Posted by Jared Mobarak on July 20, 2016 · Leave a Comment
“Find water. Go to high ground. And don’t get naked.” A Māori boy and a Pākehā man go forth into the New Zealand bush. It sounds like the start to a joke. But while Taika Waititi‘s latest Hunt for the Wilderpeople is hilarious, it’s far from being a trivial lark. There’s some weighty emotion involved […]
Category action/adventure, comedy, drama, film reviews, z.slideshow · Tags Barry Crump, Cohen Holloway, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Julian Dennison, Mike Minogue, Oscar Kightley, Rachel House, Rhys Darby, Rima Te Wiata, Sam Neill, Stan Walker, Taika Waititi, Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne, Troy Kingi, Wes Anderson
Posted by Jared Mobarak on April 6, 2016 · Leave a Comment
“There is nothing to fear except God. Whatever that means to you.” It’s the early 1980s in West Berlin and graffiti everywhere screams for the wall to be taken down. Mysterious figures linger on the other side not quite hidden from view, watching with binoculars and always seemingly looking directly in our direction. Tensions are […]
Posted by Jared Mobarak on January 1, 2014 · Leave a Comment
“Faithfulness will be your shield” There will never be a lack of literary fantasy adventures for ages 12 and up to transfer from page to screen. The question becomes whether the property is given access to a wealthy studio’s clout or one more reliant on word-of-mouth and existing fanbase to ease the transition. For Entertainment […]
Category action/adventure, family, fantasy, film reviews · Tags Aneurin Barnard, Christian Taylor, G.P. Taylor, Ioan Gruffudd, Jonathan Newman, Keeley Hawes, Lena Headey, Mariah Mundi and the Ghost Diamonds, Matthew Huffman, Mella Carron, Michael Sheen, Sam Neill, Shadowmancer, Sule Rimi, The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box, The Golden Compass, Tristan Gemmill, Twilight, Xavier Atkins
Posted by Jared Mobarak on April 13, 2013 · Leave a Comment
“Spared no expense” Dinosaurs have captivated us for centuries—their bones dug up and reassembled in museums and theories about whether they’re descendants of reptiles or birds ebbing and flowing with technological improvement and scientific expansion. So it’s no surprise techno-thriller author Michael Crichton eventually put them at the center of one of his novels, using […]
Category action/adventure, film reviews, science fiction · Tags Ariana Richards, BD Wong, Bob Peck, David Koepp, Jeff Goldblum, John Williams, Joseph Mazzello, Jurassic Park, Laura Dern, Martin Ferrero, Michael Crichton, Richard Attenborough, Sam Neill, Samuel L. Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Wayne Knight
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment
On press duty for their new film The Hunter at the Toronto International Film Festival, director Daniel Nettheim and Willem Dafoe have been discussing Tasmania, Julia Leigh’s source material, and their cinematic sensibilities. It’s a character-driven piece that showcases its star’s craft while also the exotic environment his job of capturing the last Tasmanian tiger […]
Category film features, film festival, interviews, toronto international film festival · Tags Abel Ferrara, Clear and Present Danger, Daniel Nettheim, Daybreakers, Finn Woodlock, Giada Colagrande, Julia Leigh, Morgana Davies, Platoon, Sam Neill, The Hunter, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival, Willem Dafoe
Posted by Jared Mobarak on August 31, 2011 · 1 Comment
“GO HOME GREENIE” The Australian takeover in cineplexes worldwide continues at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2011. With more and more work finding distribution to travel off the island, one woman is writing her chapter in the movement. A novelist of two acclaimed works, Julia Leigh has already found her way into Cannes with […]
Category drama, film features, film festival, film reviews, suspense/thriller, toronto international film festival · Tags Alice Addison, Daniel Nettheim, Finn Woodlock, Frances O’Connor, Julia Leigh, Morgana Davies, Sam Neill, Sleeping Beauty, The Hunter, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival, Willem Dafoe
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 14, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Every year at the Toronto International Film Festival seems to get better and better. Is that due to the increase in films from six to eleven to fifteen? It very well might be. And I’ll just say now, watching fifteen films in less than four days may not be the healthiest thing in the world. […]
Category essays, film features, film festival, toronto international film festival · Tags A Serious Man, Abbie Cornish, Adam Brody, Agora, Alejandro Amenábar, An Education, Antichrist, Away We Go, Ben Whishaw, Bright Star, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Cormac McCarthy, Cracks, Cremaster, Daybreakers, Diablo Cody, Elizabethtown, Enter the Void, Equilibrium, Ethan Hawke, Eva Green, Face, Fanny Ardant, Gaspar Noé, George Clooney, Irreversible, Jane Campion, Jason Reitman, Jennifer’s Body, John Hillcoat, John Holmes, Jordan Scott, Juno, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Lars and the Real Girl, Lars von Trier, Like You Know It All, Lone Scherfig, Mads Mikkelsen, Mar adentro, Margot at the Wedding, Matt Damon, Matthew Barney, Max Minghella, Megan Fox, Michael Haneke, Ming-liang Tsai, Nick Hornby, Nicolas Winding Refn, Paul Schneider, Rachel Weisz, Ridley Scott, Robert Duvall, Sam Neill, Scott Z. Burns, Spierig Brothers, Steven Soderbergh, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Informant!, The Others, The Piano, The Proposition, The Road, The White Ribbon, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival, Undead, Up in the Air, Valhalla Rising, Viggo Mortensen, Visage, Willem Dafoe, [Rec] 2
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment
“Humans were offered a chance to assimilate; they refused” There really is nothing more invigorating than a TIFF Midnight Madness screening. The atmosphere is alive with genre fans anxiously waiting to see some blood, gore, and dismemberment. I fortunately was able to get tickets for the world premiere of the new vampire flick Daybreakers in […]
Category film features, film festival, film reviews, horror, science fiction, toronto international film festival · Tags Daybreakers, Equilibrium, Ethan Hawke, Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig, Sam Neill, True Blood, Willem Dafoe
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