Tag: Monsters

REVIEW: Factory Farmed [2008]

Jared Mobarak

“I am required to carry out this task until completion: your orders do not override anything.” It’s always impressive to see what artists can do with limited resources and sparse time. The format provided by popular 48-Hour series occurring internationally as an exercise and a forum for up-and-coming auteurs looking to showcase their talent allows us just such a venue. In 2008, UK’s Sci-Fi channel sponsored a competition in London that bowed a short film from a group calling themselves Rebel Alliance. Led by Gareth Edwards, (who wrote, directed, edited,…

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Posterized Propaganda May 2014: ‘Godzilla’, ‘Amazing Spider-Man 2′, ‘Maleficent’ & More

Jared Mobarak

“Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact impressionable souls will do so without fail. This monthly column focuses on the film industry’s willingness to capitalize on this truth, releasing one-sheets to serve as not representations of what audiences are to expect, but as propaganda to fill seats. Oftentimes they fail miserably. Is it officially Summer yet? Blockbuster poster campaigns for Spidey, Magneto, Godzilla, and Seth MacFarlane would lean towards yes. Buy your popcorn and candy now because we’ve got computer generated…

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REVIEW: Monsters [2010]

Jared Mobarak

“I don’t cause it, I just document it” I’m not sure you can call it an alien invasion when we send a space probe out to find information, only to have it crash land over Mexico upon its return with extra-terrestrial life. America brought its new enemy to the world of Gareth Edwards’s Monsters, a human story of survival, fear, and love six years after the creatures have taken over the middle of North America, coast to coast. The area is now known as the Infected Zone and it shouldn’t…

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