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  • 2020/05/14 Jared Mobarak 0
    REVIEW: Driveways [2020]
    Who has more fun than us, huh? Taking care of her estranged...
    Drama Film Reviews z.slideshow 
  • 2020/04/03 Jared Mobarak 0
    REVIEW: Never Rarely Sometimes Always [2020]
    A positive is always a positive. The title to Eliza Hittman‘s Never...
    Drama Film Reviews z.slideshow 
  • 2020/03/25 Jared Mobarak 0
    Top 100 Albums of 2019
    Honorable Mention Tinlicker – This is Not Our Universe; Cold War Kids...
    Top 10 Albums by Year Top 10 Lists z.slideshow 
  • 2020/03/25 Jared Mobarak 0
    REVIEW: The Other Lamb [2020]
    Do you accept my grace? To be born into a world with...
    Drama Film Reviews Horror z.slideshow 
  • 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...
    Film Features Interviews 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

Posterized Propaganda January...

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Film Reviews

  • 2020/06/05 Jared Mobarak 0

    REVIEW: Becky [2020]

    You can’t stay angry forever. Becky (Lulu Wilson) is hurting. It’s been almost a year since her mother passed away from cancer and she’s yet to move on in part because her father (Joel McHale‘s Jeff) already has. So she acts out, drowns him out, and can’t wait...
    Action/Adventure Film Reviews Suspense/Thriller 
  • 2020/06/04 Jared Mobarak 0

    REVIEW: Judy & Punch [2019]

    That’s the way to do it. They say your first violent act is the hardest. After...
    Comedy Drama Film Reviews 
  • 2020/06/02 Jared Mobarak 0

    REVIEW: Dreamland [2020]

    We don’t do this. There’s a line in Bruce McDonald‘s director’s statement that I believe should...
    Comedy Drama Film Reviews 
  • 2020/06/01 Jared Mobarak 0

    REVIEW: Hammer [2020]

    I didn’t have a choice. It’s easy to tell someone we’ll do anything for family when...
    Drama Film Reviews Suspense/Thriller 

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 wins en route to four Oscar nominations. Despite being credited to “Court 13” as a collective at the beginning of the end credits, the driving force behind the film was New York...
    Film Features Interviews z.slideshow 
  • 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...
    Film Features Interviews z.slideshow 
  • 2018/07/09 Jared Mobarak 0

    INTERVIEW: Xavier Legrand, writer/director of Custody

    It’s always a treat to see a director whose work you’ve enjoyed in short form make...
    Film Features Interviews z.slideshow 
  • 2017/05/12 Jared Mobarak 0

    INTERVIEW: Matt Tyrnauer, director of Citizen Jane: Battle for the City

    Debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2016, Matt Tyrnauer‘s Citizen Jane: Battle for the...
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Top Posts & Pages

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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 –...
    Top 10 Albums by Year Top 10 Lists z.slideshow 
  • 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

  • 2020/05/21 Jared Mobarak 0

    CHAT20 REVIEW: The Wanting Mare [2020]

    The dream is what’s left. Paradise is the place humanity escaped with the bite of an apple and yet also what we aspire to find upon death. We want it until we have it and subsequently always want more. It’s a pursuit in which we’re inevitably corrupted as...
    Chattanooga Film Festival Drama Fantasy Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews 
  • 2020/05/11 Jared Mobarak 0

    HOTDOCS20 REVIEW: Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles [2020]

    Why am I getting an email from the Met? The choice of “medium” was easy for...
    Documentary Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews HotDocs 
  • 2020/04/26 Jared Mobarak 0

    HOTDOCS20 REVIEW: Finding Sally [2020]

    The promise and the agony. It wasn’t until her early thirties that Tamara Mariam Dawit first...
    Biography Documentary Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews HotDocs 
  • 2020/04/22 Jared Mobarak 0

    TRIBECA20 REVIEW: Socks on Fire [2020]

    It’s hard to get ahead of a forty-year hurt. The hope is that the sorrow of...
    Documentary Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Tribeca Film Festival 

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  • 2020/01/10 Jared Mobarak 0

    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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  • 2020/01/01 Jared Mobarak 0

    DESIGN: Cultivate Cinema Circle Fall 2019

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  • 2019/12/22 Jared Mobarak 0

    DESIGN: 2019 In Music

    Tracklisting:Disc 11. “Skyhooker” • Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow • 01:52 • Luce (OST), Lakeshore Records2....
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    DESIGN: Cultivate Cinema Circle Summer 2019

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