Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 9, 2017 · Leave a Comment
“Get what I mean?” If the phrase “tell-all” hadn’t been coined before 2012, Scotty Bowers‘ memoir Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars would have done the job. Here’s a Marine Corps veteran of World War II born in Illinois who decided to land in Hollywood upon his […]
Category biography, documentary, film features, film festival, film reviews, toronto international film festival · Tags Lois Bowers, Matt Tyrnauer, Peter Bart, Robert Hofler, Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood, Scotty Bowers, Stephen Fry, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival, William Mann
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 1, 2016 · Leave a Comment
“I’m the perfect servant: I have no life” Watching Gosford Park again conjured thoughts about it being quintessential Robert Altman, thoughts I couldn’t conjure in 2001 considering it was my first true experience watching one of his films. It proves the perfect evolutionary end to a way of filmmaking he began over twenty years previous […]
Category comedy, drama, film reviews · Tags A Wedding, Alan Bates, Bob Balaban, Camilla Rutherford, Charles Dance, Charlie Chan in London, Claudie Blakley, Clive Owen, Derek Jacobi, Downton Abbey, Eileen Atkins, Emily Watson, Geraldine Somerville, Gosford Park, Helen Mirren, James Wilby, Jeremy Northam, Julian Fellowes, Kelly MacDonald, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Richard E. Grant, Robert Altman, Ron Webster, Ryan Phillippe, Sophie Thompson, Stephen Fry, The Rules of the Game, Tom Hollander
Posted by Jared Mobarak on May 31, 2016 · Leave a Comment
“We don’t live. We visit.” We should all be thanking whomever recommended Jane Austen‘s Northanger Abbey to Whit Stillman because the edition he read just happened to include the author’s novella “Lady Susan”—a short epistolary romance subverted to conjure the filmmaker’s own specific tone. If we didn’t know the Austen connection we’d think Stillman created […]
Category comedy, drama, film reviews, romance · Tags Chloë Sevigny, Emma Greenwell, Jane Austen, Jemma Redgrave, Jenn Murray, Justin Edwards, Kate Beckinsale, Lady Susan, Lochlann O'Mearáin, Love & Friendship, Morfydd Clark, Stephen Fry, Tom Bennett, Whit Stillman, Xavier Samuel
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 14, 2013 · Leave a Comment
“A peasant at heart—with good hair and a strong liver” After finding a ton of work on television recently, it’s good to see writer/director Richard Shepard back in theaters with Dom Hemingway. I’m a big fan of both The Matador and The Hunting Party for their infectious humor despite somewhat mainstream stories. So, learning his […]
Category comedy, drama, film features, film festival, film reviews, toronto international film festival · Tags Demián Bichir, Dom Hemingway, Emilia Clarke, Hugh Laurie, Jude Law, Jumayn Hunter, Kerry Condon, Richard E. Grant, Richard Shepard, Stephen Fry, The Hunting Party, The Matador, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival
Posted by Jared Mobarak on July 27, 2013 · Leave a Comment
“So long and thanks for all the fish” It took a quarter century for Douglas Adams‘ seminal work The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy to hit the big screen, but it was worth the wait. Well, I’m probably not the authoritative word on such a statement considering the book series has rested unread on my […]
Category comedy, film reviews, science fiction · Tags Alan Rickman, Anna Chancellor, Bill Bailey, Bill Nighy, Douglas Adams, Garth Jennings, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, Karey Kirkpatrick, Kelly MacDonald, Martin Freeman, Mos Def, Nick Goldsmith, Sam Rockwell, Stephen Fry, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Hobbit, Thomas Lennon, Warwick Davis, Zooey Deschanel
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 17, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Having just recently caught up with the British comedy sketch show “A Bit of Fry and Laurie” starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, its end credits’ cocktail catchphrase was still very fresh in my mind. Always wearing tuxedos during their final piano serenade, I knew I needed to put in a bow tie in along […]
Posted by Jared Mobarak on January 5, 2012 · Leave a Comment
“Careful what you fish for” I am and probably always will be a Guy Ritchie apologist. I blamed Madonna for Swept Away and even bought a Region 2 DVD of Revolver in case it never made its way across the Atlantic. So when the director signed on to do a blockbuster studio version of Sherlock […]
Category action/adventure, film reviews, suspense/thriller · Tags Andrew Scott, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dermot Mulroney, Guy Ritchie, Hugh Laurie, Jared Harris, Jude Law, Kelly Reilly, Kieran Mulroney, Madonna, Mark Strong, Michele Mulroney, Noomi Rapace, Paul Anderson, Rachel McAdams, Revolver, Robert Downey Jr., RocknRolla, Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Stephen Fry, Steven Moffat, Swept Away
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