Fantasia Review: Booger Charts a Self-Destructive Journey to Find a Missing Cat
Unable to come to terms with her best friend and roommate Izzy’s death, Anna (Grace Glowicki) does everything possible to avoid that which she cannot fix by fo...
Jared Mobarak
Sympathy for the Devil Review: Nicolas Cage Gets Satanic in Psychological Thriller
D (Joel Kinnaman) is never late. For anything. He couldn’t let someone down even if he tried. So there’s no reason to worry when he learns his wife has gone in...
Fantasia Review: Zach Clark’s The Becomers is a Comically Warped Satire
As the narrator (Sparks' Russell Mael) tells his story of star-crossed love many moons away, we watch as violence (awkwardly comical, violent all the same) is ...
Fantasia Review: Larry Fessenden’s Werewolf Feature Blackout Brings Impressive Effects and Narrative Loose Ends
As with Depraved, writer-director Larry Fessenden returns to the world of classic, Universal-inspired monsters in Blackout. Whereas that title brought the myth...
6 Films to See at Fantasia International Film Festival 2023
The Fantasia International Film Festival is back for its 27th annual edition, running July 20 through August 9, and it's bringing one of Hollywood's biggest st...
Posterized July 2023: Afire, Oppenheimer, Kokomo City & More
Blockbuster season is here and everyone is apparently buying tickets to everyone else's films, posting them on social media, and then probably not goin...
Posterized June 2023: Asteroid City, Past Lives, Falcon Lake & More
It's sequels galore this summer, from alien robots to comic book heroes new and old. Five June Fridays are thus necessary––nothing else would be able t...
Posterized May 2023: Sanctuary, L’immensità, The Night of the 12th & More
Disney is taking over May with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (May 5) and The Little Mermaid (May 26) taking over screens across the country. Right whe...
Posterized April 2023: Human Flowers of Flesh, Showing Up, How to Blow Up a Pipeline & More
It's a busy April this year. One less Friday than last month, but the exact same number of posters to sift through. Yes, having films release the Wedne...
Full River Red Review: Zhang Yimou’s Breezy Blockbuster Blends Comedy and Suspense
Named after one of China's most famous poems––one the film says the nation can still recite by memory today––Zhang Yimou's Full River Red takes us back to the ...
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.