Jared Mobarak

[Review] Ride Along

If you're a fan of Kevin Hart, you’ll probably be satisfied with Ride Along, if only to enjoy the antics he’s saturated Hollywood with these past couple years. ...

[Review] Redlands

As an art-house piece, AMOK Books founder/owner John Brian King's debut feature film Redlands is pretty much what you'd expect from someone who's curated an exh...

Jared Mobarak’s Top 10 Films of 2013

Closing out our year-end coverage is individual top ten lists from a variety of The Film Stage contributors, leading up to a cumulative best-of rundown. Make ...

The Best Movie Posters of 2013

Despite being another year of blockbusters and animated fare begging for bland character sheets and Photoshop montages, 2013's movie posters were surprisingly creative artistically. A bunch of the following images selected for this top ten have unique fonts, most only a single actor, and even more some sort of textural filter to make what is a flat, 2D piece of paper into something tactile and worth collecting without the stigma inherent to enjoying the pariah of all art forms known as graphic design....

[Review] 47 Ronin

There have been numerous iterations of Japan's unofficial, national legend about forty-seven ronin who avenged their master's death at the start of the eighteen...

[Review] Grudge Match

Someone had the brilliant idea of putting Rocky Balboa and Jake LaMotta in the ring together at the ripe old comedic age of seventy and their Hollywood surrogat...

[Review] The Selfish Giant

A contemporary fable thematically adapted from an Oscar Wilde short story and inspired by the world writer/director Clio Barnard entered while filming her docum...

[Review] Jack, Jules, Esther & Me

I was about twenty minutes into Jack, Jules, Esther & Me when worry struck. Centered around two best friends from disparate neighborhoods/social classes in ...

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.