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  • 2022/09/11 Jared Mobarak 0
    TIFF22 REVIEW: How to Blow Up a Pipeline [2022]
    If the law will not punish you, then we will. Logan (Lukas...
    Drama Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Suspense/Thriller Toronto International Film Festival z.slideshow 
  • 2022/04/20 Jared Mobarak 0
    REVIEW: Everything Everywhere All at Once [2022]
    How can we get back? The nihilistic notion that life is meaningless...
    Action/Adventure Comedy Film Reviews z.slideshow 
  • 2022/04/09 Jared Mobarak 0
    REVIEW: In the Heat of the Night [1967]
    What kind of a place is this? All you need to know...
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  • 2022/04/07 Jared Mobarak 0
    REVIEW: Das Mädchen und die Spinne [The Girl and the Spider] [2021]
    But you had tears in your eyes. Lisa (Liliane Amuat) is moving...
    Drama Film Reviews Foreign z.slideshow 
  • 2022/03/28 Jared Mobarak 0
    The 94th Oscars recap through tweets …
    Move over Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, toxic masculinity has entered the...
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Film Reviews

  • 2022/09/18 Jared Mobarak 0

    REVIEW: To the Moon [2022]

    You want to breathe from your gut. The word Dennis (writer/director Scott Friend) uses to describe his estranged brother Roger (Will Brill) is malevolent. That’s quite the adjective without context, but one that quickly seems to fit as more details begin to surface. There’s a medical book in...
    Drama Film Reviews Suspense/Thriller 
  • 2022/09/17 Jared Mobarak 0

    TIFF22 REVIEW: Concrete Valley [2022]

    What does a doctor look like? Welcome to Antoine Bourges‘ love letter to the Thorncliffe Park...
    Drama Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Toronto International Film Festival 
  • 2022/09/17 Jared Mobarak 0

    TIFF22 REVIEW: Sidney [2022]

    You’re not who you think you are. With Sidney Poitier‘s own voice providing the narrative backbone...
    Biography Documentary Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Toronto International Film Festival 
  • 2022/09/16 Jared Mobarak 0

    TIFF22 REVIEW: I Like Movies [2022]

    The medium is the homework. Lawrence Kweller (Isaiah Lehtinen) likes movies. Not in the putting a...
    Comedy Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Toronto International Film Festival 
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  • 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...
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  • 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 10 Lists

  • 2022/01/24 Jared Mobarak 0

    Online Film Critics Society Ballot 2021

    Below is my January 21st ballot for the 25th annual Online Film Critics Society Awards honoring movies released domestically in the United States during the 2021 calendar year. Each category is ordered according to my preferential rankings. Group winners were announced on January 24th, 2022 and are labeled...
    Top 10 Films by Year Top 10 Lists z.slideshow 
  • 2021/12/31 Jared Mobarak 0

    Posterized Propaganda January 2022: The Top 10 Movie Posters of 2021

    “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 
  • 2021/01/25 Jared Mobarak 0

    Online Film Critics Society Ballot 2020

    Below is my January 20th ballot for the 24th annual Online Film Critics Society Awards honoring...
    Top 10 Films by Year Top 10 Lists z.slideshow 
  • 2020/12/31 Jared Mobarak 0

    Posterized Propaganda January 2021: The Top 10 Movie Posters of 2020

    “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 

Film Festivals

  • 2022/09/17 Jared Mobarak 0

    TIFF22 REVIEW: Concrete Valley [2022]

    What does a doctor look like? Welcome to Antoine Bourges‘ love letter to the Thorncliffe Park apartment complex, better known as “Arrival City” considering it’s the usual landing spot for new immigrants coming into Toronto. Titled Concrete Valley and starring a mix of professional and amateur actors blurring...
    Drama Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Toronto International Film Festival 
  • 2022/09/17 Jared Mobarak 0

    TIFF22 REVIEW: Sidney [2022]

    You’re not who you think you are. With Sidney Poitier‘s own voice providing the narrative backbone...
    Biography Documentary Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Toronto International Film Festival 
  • 2022/09/16 Jared Mobarak 0

    TIFF22 REVIEW: I Like Movies [2022]

    The medium is the homework. Lawrence Kweller (Isaiah Lehtinen) likes movies. Not in the putting a...
    Comedy Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Toronto International Film Festival 
  • 2022/09/15 Jared Mobarak 0

    TIFF22 REVIEW: Maya and the Wave [2022]

    Accidents are part of the routine. At twenty-six years of age, Brazilian Maya Gabeira was at...
    Documentary Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Toronto International Film Festival 

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  • 2020/12/15 Jared Mobarak 0

    DESIGN: 2020 In Music

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