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  • 2021/01/11 Jared Mobarak 0
    REVIEW: The Reason I Jump [2021]
    Have a nice trip through our world. There’s no better advocate for...
    Documentary Film Reviews z.slideshow 
  • 2020/12/14 Jared Mobarak 0
    REVIEW: Dick Johnson is Dead [2020]
    I’ve always wanted to be in the movies. A steady stream of...
    Documentary Film Reviews z.slideshow 
  • 2020/12/04 Jared Mobarak 0
    REVIEW: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom [2020]
    I got my time comin’ to me. It’s all there in the...
    Drama Film Reviews Musical/Concert z.slideshow 
  • 2020/11/11 Jared Mobarak 0
    DOCNYC20 REVIEW: Colectiv [Collective] [2020]
    We’re no longer human beings. We’re of an era when everything good...
    DOC NYC Documentary Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Foreign z.slideshow 
  • 2020/10/28 Jared Mobarak 0
    REVIEW: I’m Thinking of Ending Things [2020]
    You can’t fake a thought. Rather than listen to what Lucy (Jessie...
    Drama Film Reviews Suspense/Thriller z.slideshow 
Top 100 Films of the Decade: 2010-2019

Top 100 Films...

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

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Film Reviews

  • 2021/01/18 Jared Mobarak 0

    REVIEW: PG: Psycho Goreman [2021]

    That is a tale bathed in the blood of a million dead memories. It opens with a gladiator-level war of attrition between two middle school-aged siblings in their backyard. The game is called “crazy ball” and the loser gets buried alive. Mimi (Nita-Josee Hanna) and Luke (Owen Myre)...
    Comedy Film Reviews Horror Science Fiction 
  • 2021/01/15 Jared Mobarak 0

    REVIEW: No Man’s Land [2021]

    Cause they’re hungry. There’s a fundamental problem at the center of Conor Allyn‘s No Man’s Land:...
    Action/Adventure Film Reviews Suspense/Thriller 
  • 2021/01/13 Jared Mobarak 0

    REVIEW: Acasa, My Home [2021]

    I’m free here. The land where Gica Enache raised his family for eighteen years has become...
    Documentary Film Reviews 
  • 2021/01/12 Jared Mobarak 0

    REVIEW: Ten Minutes to Midnight [2020]

    Just get through the night. It’s pretty straightforward initially. A storm brews outside as Amy Marlowe...
    Film Reviews Horror 
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Interviews

  • 2020/10/20 Jared Mobarak 0

    INTERVIEW: Catherine Eaton, writer/director/star of The Sounding

    Writer/director/star Catherine Eaton‘s feature directorial debut The Sounding is finally available nationwide on VOD and Digital HD after a planned theatrical run was unfortunately scrapped due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s been a long time coming considering we reviewed it in 2017 out of the Buffalo International Film...
    Film Features 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...
    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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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 –...
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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

  • 2020/11/19 Jared Mobarak 0

    DOCNYC20 REVIEW: 76 Days [2020]

    I want to say goodbye for the last time. Despite all the conjecture about Wuhan being some backwoods Chinese town where people eat bats, reality reveals that it’s the capital and largest city of the Hubei Province. More than that, it’s also the ninth most populated city in...
    DOC NYC Documentary Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews 
  • 2020/11/16 Jared Mobarak 0

    DOCNYC20 REVIEW: Five Years North [2020]

    The laws have to change. The American immigration system is broken. We can argue about how...
    DOC NYC Documentary Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews 
  • 2020/11/14 Jared Mobarak 0

    ANOMALY20 REVIEW: The Last Blockbuster [2020]

    I miss it like crazy. We were a Blockbuster family. I don’t mean that because we...
    Anomaly Film Festival Documentary Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews 
  • 2020/11/13 Jared Mobarak 1

    ANOMALY20 REVIEW: Gremlins: A Puppet Story [2020]

    Ha! Forgetting about the man-hours that go into a film production before the cameras start rolling...
    Anomaly Film Festival Documentary Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews 

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    DESIGN: 2020 In Music

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  • 2020/01/10 Jared Mobarak 0

    DESIGN: The Film Stage

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  • 2019/12/22 Jared Mobarak 0

    DESIGN: 2019 In Music

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