[Review] Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Love can make you do stupid things. Love can drive you crazy. It can break your heart, make you better than you ever thought you could be, or be used as a...
Jared Mobarak
[NYAFF Review] Osamu Tezuka’s Buddha: The Great Departure
This year’s New York Asian Film Festival was graced with the North American premiere of a film almost three decades in the making. The critically acclaimed...
[Review] Zookeeper
What is the point of giving Zookeeper a rating? There really is none. The people who want to see it will see it, the kids who its aimed for will eat up the...
[NYAFF Review] Machete Maidens Unleashed!
As the most telling quote of Machete Maidens Unleashed! exclaims, “The stories are 10 times better than the actual films”. The anecdotes and memories of tho...
[Review] Horrible Bosses
I had such high hopes. Between Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, and Charlie Day being the leads, Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell, and Jennifer Aniston the support...
[Review] Larry Crowne
I really like that poster. The sky blue with the alternating thick/thin sans serif font and the jarringly bright yellow, drawing your eye to it and down t...
Posterized Propaganda July 2011: ‘Pooh’ and Friends Trump ‘Monte Carlo’
“Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact that impressionable souls will do so without fail. This monthly column f...
[Review] Bad Teacher
I wasn’t the biggest fan when it was called Bad Santa and took place in a department store, so, suffice it to say, Bad Teacher’s foul-mouthed comedy never qui...
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.