[Review] Despicable Me 2
When we last saw super villain Gru (Steve Carell) in Despicable Me he had just returned the moon to its rightful place in the sky, retired from evil and become ...
Jared Mobarak
Posterized July 2013: ‘Only God Forgives,’ ‘Pacific Rim,’ ‘Fruitvale Station’ & 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...
[Interview] Adam Brody Talks ‘Some Girl(s)’, Playing Jerks, and Neil LaBute’s Genius
Best known for playing geeky Seth Cohen on The O.C., Adam Brody has become a familiar comedic face in Hollywood over the past decade. With a recent turn in ...
[NYAFF Review] A Muse
Breeding our youth to dream of happily ever afters with an allure of fairy tale romance may do them a disservice by completely ignoring love’s equally prevalent...
[Interview] Neil LaBute on ‘Some Girl(s)’, Writing Female Characters, and Subverting Expectations
Though always prolific as a playwright, Neil LaBute’s past decade at the movies has been filled by studio pictures which never quite found the creative succ...
[Review] Some Girl(s)
Often labeled a misogynist misanthrope, Neil LaBute has made a career of writing self-absorbed characters completely ruining the lives of those around them for ...
[Review] Downloaded
Can you believe Napster existed at full capacity for only one year? One year! As the men—nay, boys—behind the peer-to-peer music-sharing phenomenon tell it, the...
[Review] Fame High
A real life version of Fame on the west coast, Scott Hamilton Kennedy’s coming-of-age documentary Fame High shows us the pressures of pursuing an arts education...
[Review] Call Me Kuchu
Created as a documentary to expose the horrifying human rights offenses committed by the Ugandan government against the LGBT community, directors Katherine Fair...
[Review] Nancy, Please
We know we’ve reached the crucial moment of Andrew Semans’ Nancy, Please when a distraught Paul (Will Rogers) finds himself at ex-roommate Nancy’s (Eleonore Hen...
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.