[Review] The 2014 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Live-Action
Ahead of the Academy Awards, we're reviewing each short category. See the live-action section below, animated here, and documentary here.
That Wasn’t Me ...
Jared Mobarak
[Review] The 2014 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animated
Ahead of the Academy Awards, we're reviewing each short category. See the animated section below, live-action here, and documentary here.
Feral – USA – 1...
[Review] Ride Along
If you're a fan of Kevin Hart, you’ll probably be satisfied with Ride Along, if only to enjoy the antics he’s saturated Hollywood with these past couple years. ...
[Review] Redlands
As an art-house piece, AMOK Books founder/owner John Brian King's debut feature film Redlands is pretty much what you'd expect from someone who's curated an exh...
[Review] The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box
There will never be a lack of literary fantasy adventures for ages 12 and up to transfer from page to screen. The question becomes whether the property is given...
Jared Mobarak’s Top 10 Films of 2013
Closing out our year-end coverage is individual top ten lists from a variety of The Film Stage contributors, leading up to a cumulative best-of rundown. Make ...
The Best Movie Posters of 2013
Despite being another year of blockbusters and animated fare begging for bland character sheets and Photoshop montages, 2013's movie posters were surprisingly creative artistically. A bunch of the following images selected for this top ten have unique fonts, most only a single actor, and even more some sort of textural filter to make what is a flat, 2D piece of paper into something tactile and worth collecting without the stigma inherent to enjoying the pariah of all art forms known as graphic design....
[Review] 47 Ronin
There have been numerous iterations of Japan's unofficial, national legend about forty-seven ronin who avenged their master's death at the start of the eighteen...
[Review] Grudge Match
Someone had the brilliant idea of putting Rocky Balboa and Jake LaMotta in the ring together at the ripe old comedic age of seventy and their Hollywood surrogat...
[Review] The Selfish Giant
A contemporary fable thematically adapted from an Oscar Wilde short story and inspired by the world writer/director Clio Barnard entered while filming her docum...
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.