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  • 2020/10/16 Jared Mobarak 0
    REVIEW: Rebecca [1940]
    They say he simply adored her. Director Alfred Hitchcock winds the camera...
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  • 2020/10/14 Jared Mobarak 0
    HEARTLAND20 REVIEW: Minari [2020]
    Because of the dirt color? One of the first things Soonja (Yuh-Jung...
    Drama Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Heartland Film Festival z.slideshow 
  • 2020/10/07 Jared Mobarak 0
    NIGHTSTREAM20 REVIEW: Rose Plays Julie [2020]
    Do you ever think about me? Get ready for a tense ride...
    Drama Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Nightstream Film Festival z.slideshow 
  • 2020/09/14 Jared Mobarak 0
    TIFF20 REVIEW: Nuevo orden [New Order] [2020]
    Then don’t tell them. Seemingly taking a cue from television, writer/director Michel...
    Drama Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Foreign Toronto International Film Festival z.slideshow 
  • 2020/09/10 Jared Mobarak 0
    TIFF20 REVIEW: One Night in Miami … [2020]
    God is great. The power behind Regina King‘s directorial debut (adapted by...
    Drama Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Toronto International Film Festival z.slideshow 
Top 100 Films of the Decade: 2010-2019

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Posterized Propaganda January 2020: The Top 10 Movie Posters of 2019

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Film Reviews

  • 2020/10/22 Jared Mobarak 0

    REVIEW: Totally Under Control [2020]

    Politics got in the way of science. Documentaries like Alex Gibney (who also wrote), Ophelia Harutyunyan, and Suzanne Hillinger‘s Totally Under Control have a tendency of falling prey to their activism. And being that this film specifically was shot, packaged, and released in just a handful of months...
    Documentary Film Reviews 
  • 2020/10/21 Jared Mobarak 0

    REVIEW: Bad Hair [2020]

    You always have a choice. It’s 1989 and Anna Bludso (Elle Lorraine) still hasn’t straightened her...
    Comedy Film Reviews Horror 
  • 2020/10/17 Jared Mobarak 0

    REVIEW: Rebecca [2020]

    I don’t believe in ghosts. Despite David O. Selznick‘s desire to keep his cinematic adaptation of...
    Drama Film Reviews Romance Suspense/Thriller 
  • 2020/10/16 Jared Mobarak 0

    REVIEW: Rebecca [1940]

    They say he simply adored her. Director Alfred Hitchcock winds the camera down the overgrowth to...
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Interviews

  • 2020/09/09 Jared Mobarak 0

    INTERVIEW: Reinaldo Marcus Green, director of Good Joe Bell

    Between his feature film debut Monsters and Men in 2018 and the currently shooting Richard Williams (Venus and Serena’s father) biopic starring Will Smith, Reinaldo Marcus Green had the distinction of directing Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana‘s first produced screenplay since their Brokeback Mountain Oscar victory in 2006....
    Film Features Film Festival Interviews Toronto International Film Festival 
  • 2020/07/29 Jared Mobarak 0

    INTERVIEW: Cosmo Jarvis, star of Calm with Horses

    One of my favorite films from last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, The Shadow of Violence...
    Film Features Interviews 
  • 2020/02/27 Jared Mobarak 0

    INTERVIEW: Benh Zeitlin, co-writer/director of Wendy

    Beasts of the Southern Wild was the indie darling of 2012 having racked up prestigious festival...
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  • 2019/03/01 Jared Mobarak 0

    INTERVIEW: Keith Behrman, writer/director of Giant Little Ones

    One of my favorite things about going to the Toronto International Film Festival is finding the...
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Top Posts & Pages

  • REVIEW: Bad Hair [2020]
  • REVIEW: 大鱼海棠 [Dayu haitang] [Big Fish & Begonia] [2016]
  • REVIEW: Porno [2020]
  • REVIEW: 7:35 de la mañana [7:35 in the Morning] [2004]
  • BIFF20 REVIEW: Freeland [2020]

Top 10 Lists

  • 2020/03/25 Jared Mobarak 0

    Top 100 Albums of 2019

    Honorable Mention Tinlicker – This is Not Our Universe; Cold War Kids – New Age Norms 1; Sara Bareilles – Amidst the Chaos; Sleater-Kinney – The Center Won’t Hold; Elbow – Giants of All Sizes; Coldplay – Everyday Life; Chance the Rapper – The Big Day; Yeasayer –...
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  • 2019/12/31 Jared Mobarak 0

    Top 100 Films of the Decade: 2010-2019

    If you asked me in 2010 which studios’ films would be amongst my favorites over the...
    Top 10 Films by Year Top 10 Lists 
  • 2019/12/30 Jared Mobarak 0

    Posterized Propaganda January 2020: The Top 10 Movie Posters of 2019

    “Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact...
    Film Features Posterized Propaganda Top 10 Lists Top 10 Posters by Year 
  • 2019/12/26 Jared Mobarak 0

    Online Film Critics Society Ballot 2019

    Below is my December 26th ballot for the 23rd annual Online Film Critics Society Awards honoring...
    Top 10 Films by Year Top 10 Lists z.slideshow 

Film Festivals

  • 2020/10/14 Jared Mobarak 0

    HEARTLAND20 REVIEW: Minari [2020]

    Because of the dirt color? One of the first things Soonja (Yuh-Jung Youn) wants to do upon arriving in America to live on her daughter’s family’s new Arkansas farm and help with her grandkids is find a place to grow the minari she’s brought over from Korea. She...
    Drama Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Heartland Film Festival z.slideshow 
  • 2020/10/13 Jared Mobarak 0

    NYFF20 REVIEW: Undine [2020]

    If you leave, you have to die. Johannes (Jacob Matschenz) laughs when Undine Wibeau (Paula Beer)...
    Drama Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Foreign Romance 
  • 2020/10/12 Jared Mobarak 0

    BIFF20 REVIEW: Freeland [2020]

    I have my own system. Adapt or die: it’s the capitalist way. And for a time...
    Buffalo International Film Festival Drama Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews 
  • 2020/10/12 Jared Mobarak 0

    NIGHTSTREAM20 REVIEW: Black Bear [2020]

    You don’t have to mean it. Does a bear standing in the road influence a bear...
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    DESIGN: The Film Stage

    I’ve been writing for The Film Stage since June of 2011 and most of that time (if not all) was under a masthead with the below ticket: So when editor-in-chief Jordan Raup asked about wanting to update the website’s branding while he was also integrating a new overall...
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    DESIGN: Cultivate Cinema Circle Fall 2019

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