[Review] About Sunny
It's intriguing to note how many buzzed-about films depicting parents who don't know how or simply can't do the job were released on the festival circuit betwee...
Jared Mobarak
[Review] Satellite of Love
Now this was a surprise. Knowing absolutely nothing about Satellite of Love before sitting down to watch it, an opening carnival scene with the trio of Samuel (...
[SXSW Review] TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard
It was a bit of a fortuitous coincidence that I caught my girlfriend watching a TED Talk with Amanda Palmer called "The Art of Asking" a day before finally sitt...
[Review] Oz the Great and Powerful
I have to reevaluate my distaste for everything Oz not existing inside the mind of Dorothy Gale now that I’ve discovered Victor Fleming’s seminal work The Wizar...
[Review] Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey
It was Journey's album Trial by Fire from 1996 that opened my eyes to their insane library of hits upon entering high school. Here was their first new music sin...
Posterized Propaganda Mar. 2013: ‘Stoker,’ ‘Place Beyond the Pines,’ ‘Spring Breakers’ & 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 focu...
[Review] War Witch
It was a news headline focused on child soldiers in Africa embroiled in war and transformed into deity-like figures that inspired writer/director Kim Nguyen to ...
[Review] Jack the Giant Slayer
What do you get when you combine the English folktale Jack and the Beanstalk with the more violent Cornish fairy tale Jack the Giant Killer in an age where comp...
[Review] Sexy Baby
Welcome to the digital age of a sexual generation raised on the ever-expanding Internet where objectification has become self-inflicted before outside influence...
[Review] Snitch
Watching the trailer for Ric Roman Waugh's Snitch had me believing the film would be a high-octane actioner in the vein of Dwayne Johnson's other one-word title...
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.