Jared Mobarak

[Review] 33 Postcards

A culturally significant film marking the first official cinematic co-production between Australia and China, Pauline Chan's 33 Postcards also provides a moving...

[Review] And Now a Word from Our Sponsor

Points for ingenuity to screenwriter Michael Hamilton-Wright for crafting a feature length script that makes sense around a character only speaking in commercia...

[Review] Blackbird

Co-winner of the award for Best Canadian First Feature Film at the Toronto International Film Festival, Jason Buxton’s debut Blackbird peers into the sort of gu...

[Review] Java Heat

It's taken director Conor Allyn five years and two movies to finally have the actioner Java Heat put him at the helm of a movie with English as its first langua...

[Review] Assault on Wall Street

Despite the appeal of rubbernecking at a car wreck, I have never seen an Uwe Boll film. Whether back when the infamous German tax break scheme was in effect on ...

[Review] Arthur Newman

Sometimes you must leave in order to return and accept the responsibility of a family easier to leave behind. Life is rough and it has a nasty little mean strea...

[Review] Dead Man’s Burden

A novice when it comes to the western genre, I won’t presume to say Jared Moshe’s directorial debut is a welcome contemporary installment in an otherwise nearly...

[Review] Iron Man 3

Phase Two of Marvel’s cinematic universe begins with the character that started their astronomically successful multi-narrative platform—Iron Man. And while a l...

[Review] Wuss

Writer/director Clay Liford knows a film titled Wuss better make sure its lead character is a living embodiment of the word. So even though he may be introduced...

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.