[Review] Terminator Genisys
Much of the success attributed to Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles stems from it using its time travel-centric mythology to erase the franchise's failure...
Jared Mobarak
‘Big Game’ Director Jalmari Helander on Samuel L. Jackson’s Sole Demand, Underdog Stories, and More
After finding success from his debut feature Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale—an expansion of a world he created through two previous shorts all released together by Oscilloscope—Finnish writer/director Jalmari Helander did what many European filmmakers do....
[Review] Ted 2
Something Steve Harvey said on a recent episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee really struck me: "Tragedy strikes. I got news for you—we have the jokes tha...
[Review] Big Game
Despite being rated PG-13 in America, Jalmari Helander's Big Game should target audiences between 10-15 like Dan Smith's Young Adult novelization of the film. B...
David Gordon Green Talks ‘Manglehorn,’ Making Al Pacino Uncomfortable, and Romanticizing the Past
In the six years between Snow Angels and Prince Avalanche, writer/director David Gordon Green became a collaborator on a string of comedies of which he was not credited as a writer. In the two years since he's utilized that process with drama Joe and now Manglehorn....
[Review] Jurassic World
As all good sequels must learn, the key to success is delivering on the promise set forth by the original while also providing something fresh and improved. Jus...
Posterized June 2015: ‘The Tribe,’ ‘Eden,’ Felt,’ 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] Entourage
I was a big fan of Entourage, loving the first four seasons and remaining entertained until the end. The fact Doug Ellin received backing for eight seasons is a...
[Review] San Andreas
Can you call a movie a disaster flick without the President of the United States declaring a state of emergency? While I ask in jest, we do expect such a soberi...
Director Alex Winter Talks ‘Deep Web,’ the Democratization of Culture, ‘Bill & Ted 3,’ and More
While you may know him as Bill S. Preston, ESQ, Alex Winter the actor has effortlessly become Alex Winter the director. Hot on the heels of his successful Napster documentary Downloaded comes Deep Web: a look behind the curtain at the 96% of the internet we don't see. But while the film began as an overview of this expansive world freely accessible by Tor—for good (journalistic anonymity) and bad (illegal drug trade)—something happened during production that blew the doors wide open....
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.