Tag: Catfish

Top Ten Films of 2010: Dark Fantasy Cinema

Jared Mobarak

This list is accurate as of post-date. So many films and not enough time to see them all—141 seen is this year’s number—the potential for future change is inevitable, but as of today here are the best … I remember thinking around April that there hadn’t been a truly great film released yet. After summer came and went with little to cheer about, I feared 2010 would be a gigantic bust containing a ton of decent to good films, but only a handful of great ones. And then—like it seems…

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Top 25 Films of 2010

Jared Mobarak

(short and sweet and to the point; culled from watching 156 releases. constantly updated as i catch up to those i missed. click poster for review if applicable) #25: Restrepo directed by Tim Hetherington& Sebastian Junger #24: Trust directed by David Schwimmer. #23: Kick-Ass directed by Matthew Vaughn. #22: Christina directed by Larry Brand. #21: It’s Kind of a Funny Story directed byAnna Boden & Ryan Fleck #20: Catfish directed by Henry Joost& Ariel Schulman #19: The City ofYour Final Destination directed by James Ivory #18: The King’s Speech directed…

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10/12/10 … Talking Movies with Nick Mendola on WECK 1230AM

Jared Mobarak

On the air with Nick Mendola at Buffalo’s own WECK 1230AM radio. 10/12/10 – Talking about, but not limited to, 127 Hours; The Social Network; Catfish; The Town; Jackass 3D; and A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop. Audio player appears once link is pressed: CLICK TO LISTEN [editor’s note: please excuse the constant interrupting of Nick as the connection constantly cut out to the point where I heard dead air and thought I needed to talk—hopefully rectified in the future.]

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REVIEW: Catfish [2010]

Jared Mobarak

“Hi! So who’s all real in this situation?” I did not expect Catfish to be a real documentary. In hindsight, it wouldn’t have taken much for me to find this fact out, but I was so vigilant to go into the film with as little information to the ‘twist’ alluded to in the trailer that I refused to dig, or even rummage on the surface for that matter. Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman’s work isn’t necessarily a cautionary tale about the abuses of internet communication or the system’s ability to…

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