Jared Mobarak

[Review] I Am Not a Serial Killer

Often lumped into the Young Adult category to the chagrin of author Dan Wells, I'm not sure I know many parents who would like to have their fourteen-year old c...

[Review] Level Up

You watch enough hero-backed-into-a-corner action films like Crank, Taken, or The Equalizer and you start to find your mind drifting away from the sheer monoton...

[Review] Imperium

People forget that before 9/11 our idea of a terrorist was a lone wolf type: domestic white Neo Nazis with agendas that warped their intellect into working towa...

[Locarno Review] Where Is Rocky II?

It was around the time Pierre Bismuth won his Oscar as an original story creator on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind that he stumbled upon an unknown work ...

[Fantasia Review] Terra Formars

It's the tail end of the twenty-first century and Earth has nearly overstayed its welcome with dwindling resources and over-population. Scientists believe they ...

[Review] Sun Choke

Something happened to Janie (Sarah Hagan). Something bad. This cataclysmic event — wherein quick flashes of screams by the pool mixing with bloody red liquid sc...

[Fantasia Review] Little Sister

Saying Zach Clark's Little Sister being called a comedy does a disservice to the film seems like a slight on the genre. I know. But I don't mean it that way. Wh...

[Fantasia Review] Shelley

Everything starts so innocently that you'd be hard-pressed to realize Ali Abbasi's Shelley is a horror film besides the score's dread-inducing soundscape rising...

[Fantasia Review] Tank 432

Director Ben Wheatley is showing his eye for talent by putting his name behind a guy who's worked closely with him since 2011's Kill List. A filmmaker in his ow...

Jared Mobarak

Jared Mobarak is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic for The Film Stage, Art Director for Buffalo, NY film series Cultivate Cinema Circle, and member of OFCS and GWNYFCA. You can follow his cinematic viewing habits at Letterboxd.