Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 25, 2015 · Leave a Comment
I don’t want to label 2014 as a good, bad, or average year. I want to call it inventive, original, and delightfully dark. Whether it’s doppelgänger paradoxes leading to murderous rage, the bleak carnage of war, prison violence, or psychologically debilitating struggles to be great, my favorite films had an edge that cut to the […]
Category essays, top 10 films, z.slideshow · Tags 20000 Days on Earth, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, A Most Violent Year, Abus de faiblesse, Abuse of Weakness, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Amy Adams, Ava DuVernay, Beats of the Antonov, Belle, Benedict Cumberbatch, Beyond the Lights, Big Eyes, Big Hero 6, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Björk: Biophilia Live, Boyhood, Calvary, Citizenfour, Clouds of Sils Maria, Coherence, Coming Home, Dear White People, Deux jours une nuit, Dinosaur 13, Edward Norton, Enemy, Felicity Jones, Finding Vivian Maier, Force Majeure, Foxcatcher, Frank, Fury, Gary Poulter, Guardians of the Galaxy, Gui lai, Hellion, How to Train Your Dragon 2, J.C. Chandor, J.K. Simmons, Jack O'Connell, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jessica Chastain, Jodorowsky’s Dune, Joe, Julianne Moore, Keira Knightley, Kis Uykusu, Last Days in Vietnam, Laura Dern, Leviafan, Leviathan, Libertador, Life Itself, Listen Up Phillip, Logan Lerman, Love is Strange, Manakamana, Mandariinid, Marion Cotillard, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Mommy, Palo Alto, Particle Fever, Reese Witherspoon, Relatos salvajes, Richard Linklater, Samba, Selma, Song of the Sea, Starred Up, Still Alice, Take Me to the River, Tangerines, The Better Angels, The Boxtrolls, The Drop, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Imitation Game, The LEGO Movie, The Liberator, The Overnighters, The Salt of the Earth, The Skeleton Twins, The Theory of Everything, The Wanted 18, Timbuktu, Trick or Treaty?, Turist, Two Days One Night, Under the Skin, Virunga, Wes Anderson, Whiplash, Wild, Wild Tales, Winter Sleep
Posted by Jared Mobarak on February 23, 2015 · Leave a Comment
I’m not sure why I keep filling myself with false hope that the Oscars will one day be an entertaining show to watch. The optimism is almost completely unfounded by this point. Whether they go weird (Anne Hathaway and James Franco), safe (Billy Crystal), hip (Seth MacFarlane), or try and steal another show’s success (Neil […]
Category essays, oscars, z.slideshow · Tags Alejandro González Iñárritu, Anna Kendrick, Anne Hathaway, Billy Crystal, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Boyhood, Chris Pine, Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1, Ellen DeGeneres, Gone Girl, Graham Moore, Idina Menzel, Jack Black, James Franco, John Travolta, Julie Andrews, Lady Gaga, Meryl Streep, Neil Patrick Harris, Octavia Spencer, Patricia Arquette, Richard Linklater, Seth MacFarlane, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Sound of Music, Wes Anderson, Whiplash
Posted by Jared Mobarak on February 20, 2015 · Leave a Comment
Things look pretty cut and dry where the Academy is concerned in 2015. The Oscars are always a somewhat watered-down look at what really mattered in the past year of cinema and this installment is no exception. In fact, it may be all water at this point. That doesn’t mean there can’t be some intriguing […]
Category essays, oscars · Tags 12 Years a Slave, A Most Violent Year, A Most Wanted Man, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Alexander Dinelaris, American Sniper, Amy Adams, Anthony McCarten, Armando Bo, Ava DuVernay, Babel, Ben Affleck, Benedict Cumberbatch, Bennett Miller, Big Eyes, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Boyhood, Bradley Cooper, Brendan Gleeson, Cake, Calvary, Christopher Schobert, Coherence, Damien Chazelle, Dan Futterman, Dan Gilroy, David Gordon Green, David Oyelowo, E. Max Frye, Eddie Redmayne, Edge of Tomorrow, Edward Norton, Emma Stone, Emmanuel Lubezki, Enemy, Essie Davis, Ethan Hawke, Feast, Felicity Jones, Foxcatcher, Fury, Gary Poulter, Gone Girl, Graham Moore, Groundhog Day, Gyllenhaal, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Hugo Guinness, Inherent Vice, J.K. Simmons, Jack O'Connell, Jason Hall, Jennifer Aniston, Jenny Slate, Jessica Chastain, Joe, Jupiter Ascending, Kaitlyn Dever, Kathryn Bigelow, Keira Knightley, Laura Dern, Locke, Logan Lerman, Maps to the Stars, Marion Cotillard, Mark Ruffalo, Men Women & Children, Meryl Streep, Michael Keaton, Moonrise Kingdom, Morten Tyldum, Nicolás Giacobone, Nightcrawler, Obvious Child, Only Lovers Left Alive, Patricia Arquette, Paul Thomas Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, Reese Witherspoon, Richard Linklater, Robert Duvall, Rosamund Pike, Selma, Slumdog Millionaire, Starred Up, Steve Carell, Steven Spielberg, The Babadook, The Double, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Imitation Game, The Judge, The King's Speech, The One I Love, The Theory of Everything, Timothy Spall, Two Days One Night, Under the Skin, Wes Anderson, Whiplash, Wild, William Altreuter
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 22, 2014 · Leave a Comment
“Tarred, feathered, and spit-roasted …” I can get behind Wes Anderson‘s Castello Cavalcanti being considered a short film. Yes, it’s a Prada ad like Candy before it, but this one actually has a story fun enough to make you forget. There is humor in the camera movements (with one pan brilliantly hitching at the scream […]
Posted by Jared Mobarak on October 16, 2014 · Leave a Comment
“Esteban was eaten!” It’s ambitious, hilarious, visually complex, and kind of … boring. I hoped that last adjective was merely the distant memory of a twenty-two year old expecting more out of Wes Anderson‘s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou when first released in theaters due to his infinite love for The Royal Tenenbaums two […]
Category action/adventure, comedy, drama, film reviews · Tags Bill Murray, Bud Cort, Cate Blanchett, Criterion Collection, David Bowie, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Henry Selick, Herman Melville, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Jeff Goldblum, Michael Gambon, Moby Dick, Noah Baumbach, Owen Wilson, Seu Jorge, Seymour Cassel, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Royal Tenenbaums, Wes Anderson, Willem Dafoe
Posted by Jared Mobarak on April 5, 2014 · Leave a Comment
“Who’s got the throat-slitter?” The films of Wes Anderson have always resided in some sort of parallel universe full of stylistic flights of fancy, but never has one been so completely defined by its fantasy than The Grand Budapest Hotel. His previous work exists to pay homage with stories filled to the brim by aesthetic […]
Category comedy, drama, film reviews · Tags Adrien Brody, Bill Murray, Bob Balaban, Edward Norton, F. Murray Abraham, Harvey Keitel, Hugo Guinness, Jude Law, Mathieu Amalric, Ralph Fiennes, Saoirse Ronan, Stefan Zweig, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Royal Tenenbaums, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson, Tony Revolori, Wes Anderson, Willem Dafoe
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 3, 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 3 Days to Kill, 300, 300: Rise of an Empire, Aaron Paul, Art Machine A Trailer Park Company, Bad Words, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Billy Crudup, Blood Ties, BLT Communications LLC, BOND, Cardinal Communications USA, Carlos, Clash of the Titans, Clive Owen, Cold Open, Concept Arts, Cory Monteith, Darren Aronofsky, David Morse, Divergent, Dominic Cooper, Eclipse, Ed Harris, Elijah Wood, Enemy, Grand Piano, ImageMassive, Imogen Poots, It Felt Like Love, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jason Bateman, Jeff Maunoury, Jim Broadbent, Jim Henson, Jodorowsky’s Dune, KiD CuDi, Kilian Eng, Lars von Trier, Le Week-End, Lindsay Duncan, McCanick, MIDNIGHT OIL, Modern Family, Mojo, Mondo Tees, Moonrise Kingdom, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, Muppets Most Wanted, Need for Speed, Noah, Nymphomaniac: Volume I, P+A, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, Proof, Ricky Gervais, Roger Michell, Rohan Chand, Russell Crowe, Sam Smith, Spartacus, Sullivan Stapleton, The American, The Bourne Identity, The Einstein Couple, The Face of Love, The Fast and the Furious, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Muppets, The Refinery, The Shining, The Wizard of Oz, Tina Fey, Tony Revolori, Ty Burrell, Wes Anderson, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
Recent Comments