Jared Mobarak

[Review] Still Life

Oscar-nominated producer (for The Full Monty) Uberto Pasolini's second film as writer/director isn't easily categorized. Aptly labeled with the hybridized compr...

[Review] Blackhat

Is there a way for a village to get wiped out—buildings and people—and still ensure the dogs are safe? No. So why do Michael Mann and Morgan Davis Foehl write B...

Jared Mobarak’s Top 10 Films of 2014

I don't want to label 2014 as a good, bad, or average year. I want to call it inventive, original, and delightfully dark. Whether it's doppelgänger paradoxes ...

The Best Movie Posters of 2014

I usually find myself needing to whittle down a list of around twenty posters to the fifteen showcased below. For 2014, however, my list was at forty-five. Now that's what I would call a good year. Seeing how many came from the big boys like Ignition and BLT Communications, LLC like 2013 only makes it sweeter because they're taking note of the little guys and their more risqué creativity to compete on the aesthetic front regardless of deeper pockets and name recognition providing unfair advantages....

[Review] Into the Woods

The involvement of Disney on any adaptation of beloved source material can't help being a double-edged sword. On the one hand their clout and financial backing ...

[Review] The Color of Time

I wonder if James Franco showed his NYU class Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life because it appears the twelve students he handpicked to write and direct what b...

[Review] Zero Motivation

When thinking about the Israeli army, images of badass Mossad agents covertly wreaking havoc across the world crop up. It's a hyperbolic generalization, but tha...

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.