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 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 11, 2014 · Leave a Comment
“Shall we leave the children alone with their new toy?” It’s highly unusual for me to get invested in a biography, so when one comes along that enthralls me as fully as The Imitation Game it’s difficult to know whether I’m simply overreacting. Director Morten Tyldum and screenwriter Graham Moore have done what so few […]
Category biography, drama, film reviews, suspense/thriller, war, z.slideshow · Tags Alan Turing: The Enigma, Alex Lawther, Allen Leech, Andrew Hodges, Benedict Cumberbatch, Charles Dance, Graham Moore, Jack Bannon, James Northcote, Keira Knightley, Matthew Beard, Matthew Goode, Morten Tyldum, Rory Kinnear, The Imitation Game
Posted by Jared Mobarak on November 4, 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 A Merry Friggin' Christmas, Alexander Rodchenko, Art Machine A Trailer Park Company, Away We Go, Benedict Cumberbatch, Big Hero 6, BLT Communications LLC, Bon Iver, Brian Bowen Smith, Burn After Reading, Channing Tatum, Concept Arts, Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Foxcatcher, Horrible Bosses 2, Ignition, InSync + BemisBalkind, Interstellar, Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo, Mojo, P+A, Project X, Red Army, Saul Bass, Sion Sono, Stephen Hawking, Steve Carell, The Avengers, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, The Imitation Game, The Theory of Everything, The Way He Looks, Why Don't You Play in Hell?, WORKS ADV
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 17, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Friends and family think me crazy for driving up the QEW so I can sit in darkened theaters for around thirty of a total eighty-hours in Toronto, but I wouldn’t spend my early September days any other way. This is what the Toronto International Film Festival does—it makes you look sanity in the face, say no […]
Category entertainment, essays, film features, film festival, toronto international film festival · Tags Aaron Moorhead, Adam Sandler, Adult Beginners, Ansel Elgort, Bang Bang Baby, Before Sunrise, Chiara D'Anna, Clouds of Sils Maria, Coming Home, Corbo, Dan Gilroy, Ed Wood, Far From Men, Foxcatcher, Intouchables, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jane Fonda, Jane Levy, Jason Bateman, Jason Reitman, Justin Benson, Kaitlyn Dever, Kevin Smith, Kill Me Three Times, Kristen Wiig, Kriv Stenders, Lone Scherfig, Lou Taylor Pucci, Max Irons, Men Women & Children, Method Man, Nadia Hilker, Nick Kroll, Nightcrawler, Olivier Assayas, Peter Strickland, Pride, Sam Claflin, Samba, Shira Piven, Simon Pegg, Spring, St. Vincent, The Cobbler, The Duke of Burgundy, The Equalizer, The Imitation Game, The Judge, The Riot Club, The Wanted 18, This is Where I Leave You, Thomas McCarthy, TIFF, Tina Fey, Toronto International Film Festival, Tusk, Viggo Mortensen, Welcome to Me, Whiplash, Yimou Zhang
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