Jared Mobarak

[Review] The Boy and the Beast

Two worlds collide once young Kyuta (Shôta Sometani) and warrior Kumatetsu (Kôji Yakusho) meet in Mamoru Hosoda's The Boy and the Beast. The former was recently...

[Review] Touched With Fire

Depicting mental illness in film is hard for two reasons. One is the fact that actors are playacting. This may not be the case across the board—performances cou...

[Berlin Review] In Your Dreams!

The world of Parkour meets teenage coming-of-age angst in Petr Oukropec's In Your Dreams!, and it's a welcome mixture. Whereas most sports inherently breed comp...

[Review] Bad Hurt

The kitchen sink's thrown against the wall with bathtub, toilet, and whatever else made of easily-shattered porcelain in the house following right behind—this i...

[Review] JeruZalem

Is it coincidence that Google filed a new application to revive Google Glass on December 28th (despite halting production on the prototype in January) just week...

[Review] Hell and Back

You may have noticed posters for the R-rated, stop-motion animated comedy Hell and Back throughout the summer and fall seasons in anticipation of its October re...

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.