Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 17, 2013 · Leave a Comment
“Pretty soon all that stands between you and being dead is you” The question is simple: How far would you go to save your child? The dynamics, however, are more complex when the man reconciling his soul to those ends is one who’s held God’s love as a beckon of security close to his heart. […]
Category drama, film reviews, suspense/thriller · Tags Aaron Guzikowski, David Dastmalchian, David Fincher, Denis Villeneuve, Dylan Minnette, Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Maria Bello, Melissa Leo, Paul Dano, Prisoners, Se7en, Terrence Howard, Viola Davis, Zodiac
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 19, 2011 · Leave a Comment
“It’s how we’re taught about strangers” If Stieg Larsson had lived long enough to see his The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo become an international sensation worthy of two cinematic adaptations in less than two years, I wonder which he would have approved of more. It’s easy to disregard David Fincher‘s remake as nothing more […]
Category drama, film reviews, suspense/thriller · Tags Christopher Plummer, Daniel Craig, David Fincher, Fight Club, Geraldine James, Karen O, Män som hatar kvinnor, Noomi Rapace, Robert Plant, Rooney Mara, Se7en, Stellan Skarsgård, Steve Zaillian, Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Social Network, Trent Reznor, Winter in Wartime, Yorick van Wageningen
Posted by Jared Mobarak on May 20, 2010 · Leave a Comment
“They always think I’ll show mercy” There is no better director in Hollywood to helm Stieg Larsson’s Män som hatar kvinnor [The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo] than David Fincher. It is the perfect mix of Zodiac’s journalistic detecting and Se7en’s dark, religious-based murders. I can only see one problem—Niels Arden Oplev has already brought […]
Category drama, film reviews, suspense/thriller · Tags David Fincher, Män som hatar kvinnor, Michael Nyqvist, Millennium Trilogy, Niels Arden Oplev, Noomi Rapace, Peter Andersson, Se7en, Sven-Bertil Taube, Swedish, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Zodiac
Posted by Jared Mobarak on April 12, 2010 · Leave a Comment
“BMW recommends that you always wear your seatbelt” After watching the Parallel Lines series, my desire to revisit BMW’s The Hire was too much to contain. This thing was a cultural phenomenon, doing what no one had ever done, with a medium still untested at the time. Back in 2001, households across America were still […]
Category action/adventure, drama, film reviews, shorts · Tags Adriana Lima, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Ambush, Andrew Kevin Walker, Ang Lee, Anonymous Content, Beat the Devil, BMW, Chosen, Clive Owen, Crank, Danny Trejo, David Carter, David Fincher, Déjà Vu, Dennis Haysbert, Don Cheadle, F. Murray Abraham, Fallon Worldwide, Forest Whitaker, Gary Oldman, Guillermo Arriaga, Guy Ritchie, Hostage, James Brown, Jason Statham, Joe Carnahan, John Frankenheimer, John Woo, Jules Daly, Kar Wai Wong, Kathryn Morris, King Arthur, Lois Smith, Madonna, Man on Fire, Marilyn Manson, Mason Lee, Maury Chaykin, Mickey Rourke, Parallel Lines, Powder Keg, Ray Liotta, Ridley Scott, Robert Patrick, Se7en, Star, Stellan Skarsgård, The Follow, The Hire, The Transporter, Ticker, Tomas Milian, Tony Scott
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 22, 2008 · 1 Comment
“It was nice to have met you” It’s an unlikely source, but an effective one—David Fincher giving us a heartbreaking tale of love discovered, lost, found, and forever enduring. The man responsible for bringing to screen the ultra-sick mind of a serial killer in Seven, the warped sensibilities of Chuck Palahniuk with Fight Club, and […]
Category drama, film reviews, romance · Tags 12 Monkeys, Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Chuck Palahniuk, Criterion Collection, David Fincher, Elias Koteas, Eric Roth, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fight Club, Jared Harris, Jason Flemyng, Se7en, Taraji P. Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, There Will Be Blood, Tilda Swinton, Zodiac
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 27, 2007 · Leave a Comment
“I am not Avery” Two David Fincher films in two years? Is that even possible? With The Curious Case of Benjamin Button finishing filming this year for a 2008 release, we get the director’s sixth film, Zodiac. While we do get some vintage Fincher style throughout the proceedings, this is very different from his other […]
Category film reviews, suspense/thriller · Tags 24, Adam Goldberg, Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox, David Fincher, Dermot Mulroney, Elias Koteas, Fight Club, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jimmi Simpson, John Carroll Lynch, Mark Ruffalo, Paul Schulze, Robert Downey Jr., Robert Graysmith, Se7en, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Tom Verica, Zodiac
Posted by Jared Mobarak on January 3, 1996 · Leave a Comment
(short and sweet and to the point; culled from watching 40 releases. constantly updated as i catch up to those i missed. click poster for review if applicable) #15: Billy Madison directed by Tamra Davis #14: Get Shorty directed by Barry Sonnenfeld #13: Dead Man directed by Jim Jarmusch #12: La Citè des enfants Perdus[The […]
Category top 10 films by year, top 10 lists · Tags 12 Monkeys, Barry Sonnenfeld, Before Sunrise, Billy Madison, Braveheart, Bryan Singer, Casino, David Fincher, Dead Man, Dead Man Walking, Get Shorty, Heat, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Jim Jarmusch, John Lasseter, Kathryn Bigelow, La Citè des enfants Perdus, Leaving Las Vegas, Martin Scorsese, Mel Gibson, Michael Mann, Mike Figgis, Richard Linklater, Se7en, Strange Days, Tamra Davis, Terry Gilliam, The City of Lost Children, The Usual Suspects, Tim Robbins, Toy Story
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