The Top 10 Movie Posters of 2011
“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...
Jared Mobarak
[Review] New Year’s Eve
So many questions I never knew I had were answered last night during a packed house screening of New Year’s Eve. A spiritual sequel to last year’s Valentine...
[Review] Answers to Nothing
So much happens in Matthew Leutwyler’s Answers to Nothing, but how much is actually relevant? An adulterous husband with a rockstar mistress and lawyer wife...
Posterized Propaganda December 2011: Numbers and Faces
“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] Arthur Christmas
After the box office failure of Flushed Away, I was worried Aardman Animations may have been dead. With the fire that consumed thirty years of their history...
[Review] Happy Feet Two
It’s no secret to anyone who knows me that I loathed Happy Feet. As a concept the family film seemed quite solid—cute penguins dancing, a modern soundtrack ...
[Review] Tower Heist
Josh Kovacs takes care of his own—it’s his job as the manager of a luxury apartment complex in the heart of New York City. With company policy refusing empl...
Posterized Propaganda November 2011: Too Many Characters!
“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] Puss in Boots
Before Shrek left his swamp to spawn a four-feature franchise I sadly had no real interest in continuing past the original, a Latino kitty cat roamed the la...
[VIFF Interview] Director Prashant Bhargava on ‘Patang’
While at the Vancouver International Film Festival this year, I had the pleasure of speaking to the writer/director of Patang , Prashant Bhargava. A Chicago-bor...
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.