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Review: Nebraska [2013]

February 6th, 2014 by Jared Mobarak

“Two goddamn days … from Billings?” I didn’t like About Schmidt. I remember very little about why or the film itself, but I do remember that. It should therefore be no surprise I didn’t necessarily… more »

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Review: Dallas Buyers Club [2013]

January 29th, 2014 by Jared Mobarak

“I prefer to die with my boots on” How do you stretch having thirty days left to live into seven years? You put in the work. Ron Woodroff (Matthew McConaughey) didn’t journey towards opening up the Dallas… more »

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Review: Her [2013]

January 25th, 2014 by Jared Mobarak

“Hey, do you want to have a Sunday adventure with me?” The first thing I wondered upon hearing Spike Jonze‘s new film concerned a man who falls in love with his computer’s intuitive operating system… more »

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Review: The Wolf of Wall Street [2013]

January 23rd, 2014 by Jared Mobarak

“Into the donuts, my boy?” This is the story of an American antihero: a guy born in the Bronx to working class parents who set off for Wall Street to make a name for himself as a stockbroker and rule the world. Jordan… more »

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Review: Ride Along [2014]

January 17th, 2014 by Jared Mobarak

“Congratulations. They know we have a dirty household.” Are you a fan of Kevin Hart? Saying yes means you’ll probably be satisfied with Ride Along if only to enjoy the antics he’s saturated… more »

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REVIEW: THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG [2013]

December 13th, 2013 by Jared Mobarak

“I could have anything down my trousers” There is a certain charm to the middle section of a book where characters met start to come into their own before the big climax. It’s a crucial section, one its bookends… more »

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Review: Blue Caprice [2013]

December 5th, 2013 by Jared Mobarak

“There are some evil people in this world” While it may take liberties with facts, Alexandre Moors‘ Blue Caprice still finds a way to get at the heart of what transpired to put John Muhammad (Isaiah… more »

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Review: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire [2013]

November 25th, 2013 by Jared Mobarak

“Remember who the real enemy is” The aspect author Suzanne Collins included in Catching Fire that was more or less absent in The Hunger Games can be summed up with the above quote. While… more »

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Review: Cold Turkey [2013]

November 20th, 2013 by Jared Mobarak

“It’s like a Jewish girl’s version of subtle” The lesson to be learned from Will Slocombe’s Cold Turkey is that you should never confide family secrets with the uncontrollable loose… more »

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Review: 12 Years a Slave [2013]

November 15th, 2013 by Jared Mobarak

“Stay safely” A label such as hero has lost its meaning of late. So ubiquitous today, it’s been rendered empty by being placed upon men and women who—while just, compassionate, and selfless—don’t… more »

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Review: The Counselor [2013]

November 14th, 2013 by Jared Mobarak

“You are a glory” If I were to compare The Counselor to any other movie I’ve seen of late it would have to be Andrew Dominik‘s Killing Them Softly. Both possess a darkly violent subject… more »

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REVIEW: THOR: THE DARK WORLD [2013]

November 8th, 2013 by Jared Mobarak

“I’ll just stay here and say ‘sea bass’ alone” There was something off with Thor in 2011 besides its horrid post-conversion 3D. While many believe Iron Man 2 was nothing but an… more »

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Review: Captain Phillips [2013]

November 7th, 2013 by Jared Mobarak

“A little air might do him some good” Despite my affinity for director Paul Greengrass‘ entries to the Bourne Saga, his cinéma vérité style will always in my opinion be better… more »

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Review: Ender's game [2013]

November 2nd, 2013 by Jared Mobarak

“The enemy’s gate is down” While speaking during a Q&A at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books in April, author Orson Scott Card stated that Gavin Hood‘s adaptation of his… more »

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Review: Big Sur [2013]

November 1st, 2013 by Jared Mobarak

“The circle’s closed in on the old heroes of the night” I’ve never read a novel by Jack Kerouac—the only Beat Generation tome I have leafed through is William S. Burroughs’ Naked… more »

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Review: Escape From Tomorrow

October 25th, 2013 by Jared Mobarak

“Dad, why are we following those girls?” If you ever thought about going to Walt Disney World with the intention of shooting a dark psychological horror film on the sly about the multi-billion dollar corporation’s… more »

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Review: The Fifth Estate [2013]

October 18th, 2013 by Jared Mobarak

“Give a man a mask and he’ll tell you the truth” As reporters from The Guardian and The New York Times are shown sifting through hundreds of thousands of leaked documents uploaded to the… more »

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Review: Don Jon [2013]

October 2nd, 2013 by Jared Mobarak

“I lose myself” I will say this: Don Jon is not quite what I expected. While the trailers do a good job showing off the surface objectification first-time writer/directorJoseph Gordon-Levitt infuses… more »

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Review: Rush [2013]

October 1st, 2013 by Jared Mobarak

“You fat little inbred beauty” The story of James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and Niki Lauda (Daniel Brühl) is one we can all relate too. It’s a tale of two extremes: the easygoing partier with ideas of immortality… more »

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Review: Gravity [2013]

September 24th, 2013 by Jared Mobarak

“You should see the sun on the Ganges. It’s amazing.” Remember back in the 90s at the advent of IMAX technology how certain amusement parks would have a screen with some “experience” putting you… more »

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Review: A Single Shot [2013]

September 21st, 2013 by Jared Mobarak

“He’s got a hard bark on him” It’s a shame most people need an incident that risks taking their life to finally acknowledge they have one left to live. For John Moon (Sam Rockwell), this moment comes on… more »

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Review: Prisoners [2013]

September 18th, 2013 by Jared Mobarak

“Pretty soon all that stands between you and being dead is you” The question is simple: How far would you go to save your child? The dynamics, however, are more complex when the man reconciling his soul to those ends… more »

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Review: A Teacher [2013]

September 13th, 2013 by Jared Mobarak

“Im trying to tell you something” While we must assume the how of high school English teacher Diana Watts (Lindsay Burdge) and senior Eric Tull’s (Will Brittain) union, it isn’t hard to understand the… more »

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Review: The World's End [2013]

September 3rd, 2013 by Jared Mobarak

“Lets Boo-Boo” The Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy—a label jokingly coined during the press tour for its second entry—has come to a close with a mint chocolate chip wrapper flapping in the wind. Following… more »

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Review: Getaway [2013]

September 3rd, 2013 by Jared Mobarak

“Smash into everything you can” The Oscar for Best Actor goes to Jon Voight‘s jowls. Supporting? That would be the high-definition salt and pepper stubble poking through the screen as he gulps martinis with… more »

Review: Nebraska [2013]

Review: Dallas Buyers Club [2013]

Review: Her [2013]

Review: The Wolf of Wall Street [2013]

Review: Ride Along [2014]

REVIEW: THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG [2013]

Review: Blue Caprice [2013]

Review: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire [2013]

Review: Cold Turkey [2013]

Review: 12 Years a Slave [2013]

Review: The Counselor [2013]

REVIEW: THOR: THE DARK WORLD [2013]

Review: Captain Phillips [2013]

Review: Ender's game [2013]

Review: Big Sur [2013]

Review: Escape From Tomorrow

Review: The Fifth Estate [2013]

Review: Don Jon [2013]

Review: Rush [2013]

Review: Gravity [2013]

Review: A Single Shot [2013]

Review: Prisoners [2013]

Review: A Teacher [2013]

Review: The World's End [2013]

Review: Getaway [2013]

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