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  • 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 
  • 2020/09/06 Jared Mobarak 0
    TIFF20 REVIEW: Good Joe Bell [2020]
    The truth is all I have. The first event at which we...
    Biography Drama Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Toronto International Film Festival z.slideshow 
  • 2020/07/30 Jared Mobarak 0
    REVIEW: She Dies Tomorrow [2020]
    I want to be useful in death. Do you feel that? The...
    Comedy Drama Film Reviews Suspense/Thriller z.slideshow 
  • 2020/06/10 Jared Mobarak 0
    REVIEW: Babyteeth [2020]
    I’m not ready to be functional. No matter how prepared we think...
    Comedy Drama Film Reviews 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

  • 2020/09/15 Jared Mobarak 0

    TIFF20 REVIEW: Concrete Cowboy [2020]

    The past is not the present. There’s a pretty timely notion hiding in the background of director Ricky Staub and co-writer Dan Walser‘s Concrete Cowboy. Republicans love to spin a reductive talking point out of the “defund the police” initiative, but that plea isn’t actually demanding we dissolve...
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  • 2020/09/14 Jared Mobarak 0

    TIFF20 REVIEW: MLK/FBI [2020]

    Those are pieces of information we shouldn’t have. It’s no secret that J. Edgar Hoover surveilled...
    Documentary Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Toronto International Film Festival 
  • 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 Franco provides us glimpses...
    Drama Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Foreign Toronto International Film Festival z.slideshow 
  • 2020/09/13 Jared Mobarak 0

    TIFF20 REVIEW: The Kid Detective [2020]

    I used to be loved. The premise behind Evan Morgan‘s The Kid Detective definitely hit upon...
    Comedy Drama Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Toronto International Film Festival 
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  • 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 (renamed from its UK release title Calm with Horses) has finally arrived stateside. A critical darling with enough momentum for Saban Films to reward it with an exclusive theatrical window despite the...
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  • 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...
    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...
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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

  • 2020/09/15 Jared Mobarak 0

    TIFF20 REVIEW: Concrete Cowboy [2020]

    The past is not the present. There’s a pretty timely notion hiding in the background of director Ricky Staub and co-writer Dan Walser‘s Concrete Cowboy. Republicans love to spin a reductive talking point out of the “defund the police” initiative, but that plea isn’t actually demanding we dissolve...
    Drama Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Toronto International Film Festival 
  • 2020/09/14 Jared Mobarak 0

    TIFF20 REVIEW: MLK/FBI [2020]

    Those are pieces of information we shouldn’t have. It’s no secret that J. Edgar Hoover surveilled...
    Documentary Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Toronto International Film Festival 
  • 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 Franco provides us glimpses...
    Drama Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Foreign Toronto International Film Festival z.slideshow 
  • 2020/09/13 Jared Mobarak 0

    TIFF20 REVIEW: The Kid Detective [2020]

    I used to be loved. The premise behind Evan Morgan‘s The Kid Detective definitely hit upon...
    Comedy Drama Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Toronto International Film Festival 

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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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    DESIGN: 2019 In Music

    Tracklisting:Disc 11. “Skyhooker” • Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow • 01:52 • Luce (OST), Lakeshore Records2....
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