[TIFF Review] Ninth Floor
The 1969 Sir George Williams Affair seems like something we should all know about. It occurred only a year after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination and prov...
Jared Mobarak
Posterized September 2015: ‘Everest,’ ‘Sicario,’ ‘The Walk,’ and More
“Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact impressionable souls will do so without fail. This monthly column focuses on the film industry’s willingness to capitalize on this truth, releasing one-sheets to serve as not representations of what audiences are to expect, but as propaganda to fill seats. Oftentimes they fail miserably....
[Review] Catch Me Daddy
Even though he's absent until the film's final sequence because the estranged daughter he's hired bounty hunters to find is foremost in our attention, director ...
Posterized August 2015: ‘Cop Car,’ ‘Queen of Earth,’ ‘The Diary of a Teenage Girl,’ and More
“Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact impressionable souls will do so without fail. This monthly column focuse...
[Fantasia Review] Bridgend
When 79 people between 2007 and 2012 commit suicide—many teens and most without a note—within a single town, there's definitely a story to tell. Welcome to Brid...
[Fantasia Review] Crumbs
Spanish writer/director Miguel Llansó's independent film company Lanzadera Films explains its mission as a firm that focuses on "undiscovered countries, experim...
[Fantasia Review] Possessed
I didn't know I wanted a horror parody in the style of Celebrity Deathmatch until about halfway through Samuel Ortí Martí's pitch black skewering of the genre ...
[Fantasia Review] Ava’s Possessions
When the industry is inundated with supernatural horror redundancies like it has for the past two decades, work like Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's Shaun of the ...
[Review] Vacation
I smelled trouble as soon as Ed Helms was cast in Vacation as the now father-of-two Rusty Griswold. While the perfect surrogate for Chevy Chase's bumbling Clark...
‘Unexpected’ Director Kris Swanberg on Not Passing Judgement, Eliminating Stereotypes, and More
"A lot of the film was based on personal experience and it's kind of my inclination to steer towards a more natural story than a high-concept one."...
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.