Jared Mobarak

[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...

[Review] Southpaw

The origins of Southpaw are interesting because it was born from screenwriter Kurt Sutter's want to collaborate with Eminem. Now try to picture Marshall Mathers...

[Fantasia Review] Observance

You know you've seen something special when your only thought upon completion is whether to watch again or scour the internet for possible interpretations. This...

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.