Jared Mobarak

[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...

[Review] Inescapable

Acclaimed Arab-Canadian filmmaker Ruba Nadda follows her festival winning romantic drama Cairo Time with the mystery thriller Inescapable. It's new territory fo...

[Review] Brooklyn Castle

With so many documentaries the past few years focusing on adolescent education and the stressful amounts of work our society has deemed appropriate for kids to ...

[Review] A Good Day to Die Hard

While A Good Day to Die Hard may never truly feel like a Die Hard flick, it isn't for a lack of entertainment. Fans love the idea of John McClane (Bruce Willis)...

[Review] Beautiful Creatures

Just like clockwork, the Twilight series has found a successor. Trading vampires and werewolves for witches, authors Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl's Caster Chr...

[Review] Identity Thief

The words "from the director of Horrible Bosses" instilled little hope for me sitting down to Seth Gordon's newest work Identity Thief. Screenwriter Craig Mazin...

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.