Posted by Jared Mobarak on November 25, 2015 · 1 Comment
“They chose you” With The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 officially in the books I’m confident in saying Suzanne Collins‘ dystopic trilogy will hold up as one of the most successfully faithful cinematic adaptations ever. And a big part of that is the decision to make it into four movies because, as anyone who’s […]
Category action/adventure, film reviews, science fiction · Tags Back to the Future Part II, Back to the Future Part III, Danny Strong, Donald Sutherland, Elden Henson, Elizabeth Banks, Francis Lawrence, Jena Malone, Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Julianne Moore, Kill Bill, Liam Hemsworth, Mahershala Ali, Natalie Dormer, Peter Craig, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Sam Claflin, Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Wes Chatham, Willow Shields, Woody Harrelson
Posted by Jared Mobarak on April 18, 2015 · Leave a Comment
“Rebuilding Our Future Today” Dystopian sci-fi is trendy. Anyone who has any knowledge of today’s pop culture could tell you that and it’s no surprise Hollywood has jumped on its collective consciousness with The Hunger Games, Divergent, and The Maze Runner. I enjoy them all, don’t get me wrong, but the reality of their monumental […]
Category film features, film festival, film reviews, science fiction, suspense/thriller, tribeca film festival · Tags 1984, Carleton Ranney, Dark City, Destin Douglas, Divergent, Fahrenheit 451, George Orwell, Ian Christopher Noel, Jackrabbit, Josh Caras, Ray Bradbury, Ryan Dailey, The Hunger Games, The Matrix, The Maze Runner, Tribeca Film Festival
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 20, 2015 · 1 Comment
“You have to forgive yourself” I don’t know which of the three writers credited (Brian Duffield, Akiva Goldsman, and Mark Bomback) on Insurgent is responsible for the complete overhaul of Veronica Roth‘s source novel, but I applaud him. If not for the retention of its characters’ arcs, one could argue the majority of this cinematic […]
Category action/adventure, film reviews, science fiction, suspense/thriller · Tags Akiva Goldsman, Allegiant: Part 1, Ansel Elgort, Brian Duffield, Divergent, Insurgent, Jonny Weston, Kate Winslet, Mark Bomback, Miles Teller, Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Ray Stevenson, Robert Schwentke, Shailene Woodley, Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Theo James, Veronica Roth
Posted by Jared Mobarak on November 21, 2014 · Leave a Comment
“If we met up at midnight in the hanging tree” Welcome to the bait and switch. If you’ve read Suzanne Collins‘ Hunger Games Trilogy you know that Mockingjay is by far the meatiest and most resonate installment of the series despite diverting from the blueprint that brought people in. So rich in the politics, revolution, […]
Category action/adventure, film reviews, science fiction · Tags Danny Strong, Donald Sutherland, Elizabeth Banks, Francis Lawrence, Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Julianne Moore, Liam Hemsworth, Mahershala Ali, Natalie Dormer, Peter Craig, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Sam Claflin, Stanley Tucci, Stef Dawson, Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, The Matrix, Willow Shields, Woody Harrelson
Posted by Jared Mobarak on November 8, 2014 · Leave a Comment
“No time for the old in-out, love, I’ve just come to read the meter.” It didn’t take long for the theatrical experience to prove essential when watching A Clockwork Orange on the big screen. As Henry Purcell‘s March from “Funeral Music for Queen Mary” plays, the frame is filled with a solid bright orange so […]
Category drama, film reviews, science fiction, z.slideshow · Tags A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess, Anthony Sharp, Aubrey Morris, Carl Duering, Divergent, Goffrey Quigley, Henry Purcell, Her, Ludwig van Beethoven, Malcolm McDowell, Michel Ciment, Patrick Magee, Stanley Kubrick, The Hunger Games
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 23, 2014 · Leave a Comment
“Wicked is good” There’s really no better way to start The Maze Runner than Wes Ball‘s opening. I’ve not read James Dashner‘s novels and probably knew less than the trailer foretold since it’s been so long since I last saw it. So watching the pitch-black screen stare at me while scrapping metal creaked until a […]
Category action/adventure, film reviews, science fiction, suspense/thriller · Tags Aml Ameen, Blake Cooper, Divergent, Dylan O'Brien, Grant Pierce Myers, James Dashner, Kaya Scodelario, Ki Hong Lee, Lord of the Flies, Noah Oppenheim, Prison Break, T.S. Nowlin, The Cabin in the Woods, The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Wes Ball, Will Poulter
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 2, 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 20000 Days on Earth, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, and company, Blood & Chocolate, Born to Fly, Christoph Waltz, Cold Open, Desi Moore, Divergent, Emily Browning, Eva Green, Frank Ockenfels, God Help the Girl, Hannah Murray, Honeymoon, Ignition, James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Jimmy Smits, Kevin Smith, Kirsten Dunst, Mélanie Thierry, Memphis, Nick Cave, NYPD Blue, Olly Alexander, P+A, Palaceworks, ParaNorman, Robert Longo, Rose Leslie, Terry Gilliam, The Boxtrolls, The Counselor, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, The Guest, The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner, The Refinery, The Two Faces of January, The Zero Theorem, Tusk, Viggo Mortensen, Willis Earl Beal
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 24, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Michael Gelen is a Buffalo-based artist whose work you have probably seen in and around the city. Been to ICTC? He draws the covers. Enjoy the beer selection of New Buffalo Brewing? He’s the one designing the labels. The mind behind Inkwell Studios, Gelen’s expertise runs the gamut from logos to posters to children’s books […]
Category essays, interviews · Tags Aristide Bruant, Brodo, Buitoni, Federico Seneca, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Inkwell Studios, Irish Classical Theatre Company, Michael Gelen, Miller's Crossing, Richard Kegler, The Beggarstaff Brothers, The Hunger Games, The Wine Thief, Tom Whalen, William Nicholson
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 16, 2014 · Leave a Comment
“Is it time?” When talk surrounding the US release of Kar Wai Wong‘s The Grandmaster erupted in controversy about a truncated cut from the Weinsteins, cinephiles across the nation couldn’t help but let depression set in. Even so, no one could have been surprised by the decision because Harvey Scissorhands likes to streamline story for […]
Category action/adventure, drama, film reviews, science fiction · Tags Ah-sung Ko, Alison Pill, Beata Brendtnerovà, Benjamin Legrand, Bong Joon-ho, Chan-wook Park, Chris Evans, Ed Harris, Emma Levie, Jacques Lob, Jamie Bell, Jean-Marc Rochette, John Hurt, Kang-ho Song, Kar Wai Wong, Kelly Masterson, Le Transperceneige, Oldboy, Snowpiercer, Stefan Kovacik, The Grandmaster, The Hunger Games, The Matrix, The Raid, Tilda Swinton
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 2, 2014 · Leave a Comment
“Why am I not here?” A life well lived. Now there’s a concept very few of us can truly comprehend. It doesn’t mean old age. It doesn’t mean fame or fortune. It doesn’t even mean legacy, familial or otherwise. A life well lived can be ten years long or one hundred years short—the only necessity […]
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 18, 2014 · Leave a Comment
“Faction before blood” Like it or not, the twenty-first century has brought cultural alterations. For instance, the conversation about futuristic dystopias and/or social upheaval no longer includes 1984, Brave New World, or Fahrenheit 451. Our contemporary equivalents are now The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner, and Divergent. They may not be at the same reading […]
Category action/adventure, film reviews, science fiction · Tags 1984, Ansel Elgort, Ashley Judd, Brave New World, Divergent, Evan Daugherty, Fahrenheit 451, Insurgent, Jai Courtney, Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Winslet, Maggie Q, Miles Teller, Neil Burger, Ray Stevenson, Shailene Woodley, Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner, Theo James, Tony Goldwyn, Vanessa Taylor, Veronica Roth, Zoë Kravitz
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