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Review: Peterloo [2018]

By Jared Mobarak Apr 26, 2019

“Let’s see what he has to say” Films devoid of main protagonists are generally created as such because the event orbited by their ensemble of characters proves the focal point instead.…

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Review: Ramen Shop [2018]

By Jared Mobarak Apr 15, 2019

“He kept her memory alive with every bowl of ramen” While Eric Khoo‘s Ramen Teh [Ramen Shop] is at its core a story about a young man looking to reclaim a part of his heritage…

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Review: Pet Sematary [2019]

By Jared Mobarak Apr 5, 2019

“I just wanted to be a family again” Remakes are often thankless jobs because you’re stuck trying to live up to or best your predecessor while also creating something wholly different.…

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Review: Hotel Mumbai [2019]

By Jared Mobarak Mar 29, 2019

“Remember, the whole world will be watching” An Indian man who’s risked his life helping to save wealthy guests at the posh hotel where he works as head chef (Anupam Kher‘s Oberoi)…

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Review: Gloria Bell [2019]

By Jared Mobarak Mar 24, 2019

“We could all die tomorrow” I hate the argument that remakes of foreign films allow English-speakers to invest more in the story and performance because they aren’t dividing attention…

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Review: Ruben Brandt, Collector [2018]

By Jared Mobarak Mar 15, 2019

“Characters from famous paintings continue to attack me” Writer/director Milorad Krstic has combined his love for painting and film into an action thriller as surreal as it is familiar.…

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Review: Captain Marvel [2019]

By Jared Mobarak Mar 10, 2019

“I’m not what you think I am” With the snap of his fingers, Thanos made half of Earth’s population disappear. It was the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s most harrowing climactic…

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Review: The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part [2019]

By Jared Mobarak Mar 3, 2019

“Listen to the music” A film like The LEGO Movie is a once-in-a-decade type achievement (so to see its filmmakers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller also write/produce…

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Picking Winners At The 91st Annual Academy Awards

By Jared Mobarak Feb 22, 2019

The 90th Annual Academy Awards hits airwaves Sunday, February 24th, 2019 at 8:00pm on ABC. For those handicapping at home, here are the guesses of Buffalo film fanatics Christopher Schobert, William…

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Review: Shoplifters [2018]

By Jared Mobarak Feb 2, 2019

“Sounds fishy” When times are tough, you improvise. Look at the Shibata family for example. Osamu (Lily Franky) and Nobuyo (Sakura Andô) both work part-time jobs to bring home meager…

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Review: Stan & Ollie [2018]

By Jared Mobarak Jan 28, 2019

“Do we really need that trunk?” As someone completely unversed in the Laurel and Hardy oeuvre, I’m not sure there could have been a better introduction to the comedic duo than through…

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Review: Glass [2019]

By Jared Mobarak Jan 18, 2019

“Why are we the only ones?” It began nineteen years ago with a tale about emotional and physical duress—byproducts of tortured lives being led by purportedly “great” men…

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Review: Ben Is Back [2018]

By Jared Mobarak Jan 11, 2019

“You’re all still scared of me” There’s no way to discuss the second of Ben is Back or Beautiful Boy that you watched without also mentioning the first. Maybe I’d…

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Review: Vice [2018]

By Jared Mobarak Dec 28, 2018

“What do we believe?” It’s still weird thinking the guy who joked around with Will Ferrell for years is an Oscar winner, but that’s exactly what Adam McKay is. Weirder…

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Review: Aquaman [2018]

By Jared Mobarak Dec 22, 2018

“It’s fish-MAN” Arthur Curry’s Aquaman has been known in mainstream pop culture circles as DC’s whipping boy for a long while since it’s easy to mock an orange spandex-wearing…

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Review: The Favourite[2018]

By Jared Mobarak Dec 14, 2018

“We’ve been laying very different games” This isn’t your parents’ period piece. If the name Yorgos Lanthimos under the header of director didn’t already give you…

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Review: At Eternity's Gate [2018]

By Jared Mobarak Dec 7, 2018

“I am my paintings” Vincent Van Gogh is quite the enigmatic figure in the art world as a man whose genius was ahead of its time. His greatest works were painted in the final two years of his…

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Review: The Possession Of Hannah Grace [2018]

By Jared Mobarak Dec 1, 2018

“Green means go” Megan Reed (Shay Mitchell) is so intentionally drawn for the plot of The Possession of Hannah Grace that you can take bets before sitting down on whether she’ll…

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Review: Widows [2018]

By Jared Mobarak Nov 26, 2018

“This isn’t your world” When the first trailer for Widows dropped, I thought, “Steve McQueen is branching out to genre fare now.” This wasn’t a slight,…

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Review: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald [2018]

By Jared Mobarak Nov 17, 2018

“We mustn’t be what they say we are” Who is Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne)? This is an important question we have to ask while watching Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald,…

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Review: Suspiria [2018]

By Jared Mobarak Nov 8, 2018

“Of what do you ask?” I’m no big fan of Dario Argento‘s Suspiria. It’s a gorgeous film overflowing with mood and aesthetic that ultimately becomes the poster child…

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Review: Free Solo [2018]

By Jared Mobarak Oct 26, 2018

“I realize my body would just explode on impact” Free climbing a mountain wall at any height is insane to me. So watching Alex Honnold gaze upon El Capitan with the simultaneous…

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Review: The Hate U Give [2018]

By Jared Mobarak Oct 19, 2018

“Know your worth” The progression of The Hate U Give‘s genesis reveals its message’s importance. Angie Thomas began its short story precursor back in college as…

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Review: Colette [2018]

By Jared Mobarak Oct 13, 2018

“It might ruffle some feathers back home” What Wash Westmoreland (who co-wrote with his late husband Richard Glatzerand Rebecca Lenkiewicz) has done with Colette is…

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Review: A Star Is Born [2018]

By Jared Mobarak Oct 5, 2018

“I love the way she sees them” It began with Hollywood as William A. Wellman and Robert Carson won an Oscar for their story about a young actress dreaming of super stardom…

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Review: Blaze [2018]

By Jared Mobarak Sep 27, 2018

“Never stand in the way of true love” You have to respect the way Ethan Hawke approached his latest film Blaze and its central character Blaze Foley. He’d never heard…

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Review: Lizzie [2018]

By Jared Mobarak Sep 21, 2018

“I never wanted anything from you” The level of intrigue surrounding Andrew and Abby Borden’s murders in 1892 is crazy because it’s only increased since. We’re talking the…

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Review: A Simple Favor [2018]

By Jared Mobarak Sep 14, 2018

“Oopsy” You don’t wonder which woman has secrets after meeting Stephanie Smothers (Anna Kendrick) and Emily Nelson (Blake Lively). Instead you wonder which has more. They’re built…

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Review: The Miseducation Of Cameron Post [2018]

By Jared Mobarak Sep 7, 2018

“There’s no hiding from God” “Separation of church and state” has always fascinated me since the only consistency within is the ability to pick and choose when and how it’s…

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Review: Crazy Rich Asians [2018]

By Jared Mobarak Aug 17, 2018

“Family never says thank you” While I haven’t read Kevin Kwan‘s novel Crazy Rich Asians, I can definitely see why producers would have approached him with the note: “Where’s…