[Review] Violet & Daisy
Just because you’re an assassin doesn’t mean you can’t still be a girl too. The titular Violet (Alexis Bledel) and Daisy (Saoirse Ronan) don’t let their work ge...
Jared Mobarak
Geoffrey Fletcher Talks ‘Violet & Daisy,’ His Filmmaking Canvas, Oscar Win, Delays & More
We talk to the Academy Award-winning screenwriter about his feature length directorial debut dealing with two teenage girl assassins on a journey towards self-reflection and humanity....
Posterized June 2013: The Apocalypse is Nigh With ‘Man of Steel,’ ‘World War Z,’ ‘This is the End’ & More
What's your favorite poster of the month? We dive into all the one-sheets from this month's slate....
[Review] The Battery
It's hard to give any new film about zombies the benefit of the doubt. What started as a politically charged venue to comment on society has pretty much been wa...
[Review] The History of Future Folk
Hipster culture appears here to stay. Big-bearded, plaid flannel-wearing, folk music playing bohemians increase their numbers every day as bands like Fleet Foxe...
[Review] Hannah Arendt
Author Mary McCarthy (Janet McTeer) describes the titular Hannah Arendt (Barbara Sukowa) best when berating an emotionally blinded detractor vehemently slanderi...
[Review] Brooklyn Girls Fight Club
Although it's called Brooklyn Girls Fight Club and depicts more than a couple violent examples of those bare-knuckled brawls happening in undisclosed locales, p...
[Review] A Band Called Death
It took thirty-five years before proto-punk outfit Death’s guitarist, spiritualist, and uncompromising leader’s prophetic words came true, but the world finally...
[Review] Missed Connections
Sometimes we must look past formulaic cliché and an overreaching desire to transform a less than trustworthy internet dating tool on Craigslist into a phenomeno...
[Review] An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
It’s not hard to view an experimental art film as little more than a pretentious, self-indulgent exercise in futility when you aren’t willing to give it a chanc...
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.