Summer Fun Film Festivals in WNY
Posted by Jared Mobarak on July 18, 2014 · Leave a Comment
With the dwindling numbers of drive-in theaters across the country, independent theaters finding it difficult to compete with huge chains, and the ever-fluctuating national box office needing too many 3D films to turn a profit, certain cities somehow find a way to keep the medium alive. Buffalo is one of them and always has been […]
Category entertainment, essays · Tags A Fish Called Wanda, A Million Ways to Die in the West, Airplane!, Arthur, Back to the Future Part II, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Citizen Kane, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, Crazy Stupid Love, Dumb and Dumber, Edge of Tomorrow, Frozen, Funny Girl, Godzilla, Good Will Hunting, Gremlins, Horton Hears a Who!, Jurassic Park, Les Misérables, Magic Mike, Maleficent, Man of Steel, Mary Poppins, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Moulin Rouge!, Mr. Mom, Neighbors, Noah, Old School, Pretty Woman, Pulp Fiction, Ratatouille, Rio 2, Silver Linings Playbook, Slumdog Millionaire, Snow Day, Something's Gotta Give, Stand By Me, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, The Big Lebowski, The Blind Side, The Blues Brothers, The Change-Up, The Dark Knight, The Goonies, The Jerk, The LEGO Movie, The Lost Boys, The Monuments Men, The Neverending Story, The Notebook, The Other Woman, The Phantom of the Opera, The Princess Bride, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Wiz, The Wizard of Oz, Thelma & Louise, Transcendence, Wayne's World, When Harry Met Sally, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
The 82nd Oscars recap through tweets …
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 8, 2010 · Leave a Comment
@jaredmobarak • NPH in sequins … i guess that’s something … The 82nd Annual Oscars ceremony begins, yet the hosts are nowhere to be found. Have we gotten to the point now where we need a lead-in for the most assuredly lame/very PC stand-up routine? We need to get the ball rolling for the ball […]
Category essays, oscars · Tags A Serious Man, Academy Awards, Alec Baldwin, Anna Kendrick, Anthony Hopkins, Antonio Banderas, Avatar, Barbra Streisand, Ben Stiller, Benicio Del Toro, Bright Star, Carey Mulligan, Cars, Channing Tatum, Charlize Theron, Christoph Waltz, Christopher Plummer, Colin Firth, Dan Aykroyd, Demi Moore, District 9, Ed Asner, Farrah Fawcett, Fisher Stevens, Geoffrey Fletcher, George Clooney, Golden Globes, Hugh Jackman, Inglourious Basterds, James Cameron, James Taylor, Jason Reitman, Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Lopez, John Hughes, John Lasseter, John Stewart, John Travolta, Judd Nelson, Kathryn Bigelow, Keanu Reeves, Linda Hamilton, Logorama, Lost, Macaulay Culkin, Markéta Irglová, Matthew Broderick, Michael Giacchino, Michael Haneke, Michael Jackson, Mickey Rourke, Modern Family, Morgan Freeman, Mo’Nique, Music by Prudence, Neil Patrick Harris, Oprah Winfrey, Oscars, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, Quentin Tarantino, Quincy Jones, Ricky Gervais, Robert Downey Jr., Ryan Bingham, Sacha Baron Cohen, Samuel L. Jackson, Sandra Bullock, Sandy Powell, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sean Penn, Sigourney Weaver, Star Trek, Steve Martin, Strange Days, Suzy Amis, T-Bone Burnett, The Blind Side, The Cove, The Hangover, The Hurt Locker, The Jerk, The Mask of Zorro, The Matrix, The New Tenants, The Secret in Their Eyes, The Temper Trap, The Wolfman, The Young Victoria, Tim Robbins, Tom Ford, Tom Hanks, Tyler Perry, Up, Up in the Air, West Bank Story, Zoë Saldana
REVIEW: The Jerk [1979]
Posted by Jared Mobarak on October 5, 2008 · Leave a Comment
“I was born a poor black child” It was sheer dumb luck that while reading Steve Martin’s autobiography earlier this year I saw his film The Jerk was being shown on tv. A few months later and the threat of my DVR being erased, I finally took the time to view it. Martin definitely did […]
Category comedy, film reviews · Tags Bernadette Peters, Carl Reiner, Dick Anthony Williams, Jackie Mason, M. Emmet Walsh, Saturday Night Live, Steve Martin, The Jerk
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