[Review] Ted
If you looked at the trailers for Seth MacFarlane's Ted and thought it would be a full-length, live action riff on his popular animated television show "Family ...
Jared Mobarak
[Review] That’s My Boy
Just when you thought Adam Sandler had hit bottom and could only improve upon a lackluster string of films that make you question the quality of his earlier gem...
[Interview] ‘Extraterrestrial’ Writer/Director Nacho Vigalondo on Humanity, Hitchcock & More
After finding great international success with his debut feature film Timecrimes in 2007, writer/director Nacho Vigalondo performed a bit of a 180 for his s...
[Review] Extraterrestrial
You wake in a strange place without memory of arriving. You see light's curved shadows on the wall through clouded eyes while a chorus of clanging is heard in t...
[Review] Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
A round of applause for directors Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath—and Conrad Vernon who joins them to expand on his responsibilities playing Mason the monkey—becau...
Posterized Propaganda June 2012: Blockbusters Arrive, Creativity Stays Home
“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...
[Review] Snow White and the Huntsman
What happens when a fairy tale depicting an innocent princess saved by a litany of characters on her way to the crown turns into an epic battle with a heroine i...
[Review] Men in Black III
While strange for a Men in Black film to open with something other than a crashing spaceship, I'll admit to being ecstatic for the alternative. Having the sexy ...
[Review] Battleship
Screenwriters Erich and Jon Hoeber actually made paying Hasbro a boatload of cash for their seemingly-unnecessary board game property a relevant story point in ...
Posterized Propaganda May 2012: Monkeys on a Typewriter
“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...
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.