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Jared Mobarak
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Graphic Designer • Rotten Tomatoes-Approved Critic: @thefilmstage.com & heyhaveyouseen.com • Art Director: cultivatecinema.com (RIP) • Member: OFCS.org & @gwnyfilmcritics.com • Curates @cinematicfbombs.com

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Jared Mobarak @jaredmobarak.com · Jan 6
Still working through my watchlist, but confident it will take a lot to knock any out of this line-up.

I go long on only seeing two on the big screen (the industry's choice, not mine) and brief on each film.

My Top Ten of 2024 at @thefilmstage.bsky.social:

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Jared Mobarak’s Top 10 Films of 2024
Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. Besides my annual trip to the Toronto Internatio...
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Not only is it good that Boston cleared the bench to celebrate Pasta’s 400th goal, but it’s hilarious that it happened against Toronto since their entire team refused to even acknowledge when Tavares scored his 500th. Leafs might make the playoffs, but they are a bigger joke than the Sabres.
November 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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New double feature idea:

David Lynch's LOST HIGHWAY
Alireza Khatami's THE THINGS YOU KILL
a dark road with a few lights on the side
Alt: Moving fast on the double yellow lines of a back road where sparse light only illuminates the speed at which we're traveling.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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My latest newsletter is out with thoughts on:

• Ballad of a Small Player
• The Birdcage
• Christy
• Coexistence, My Ass!
• Die My Love
• If You See Something
• Nuremberg
• Peter Hujar's Day
• Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
• Weapons

www.heyhaveyouseen.com/week-ending-...

#heyhaveyouseen
Week Ending 11/7/25
FYC season has begun
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November 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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What's your favorite poster for a new release this month?

@jaredmobarak.com analyzes the poster art of November: thefilmstage.com/posterized-n...
November 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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There is no opposition party in the United States. Any official resistance is performative.
November 10, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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If you think there is an iota of shame left among them you have been asleep since 2016.
jfallows.bsky.social James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 2d
Agree.

Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them."

This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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willbunch.bsky.social
Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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2016
peacheschrist.com Peaches Christ @peacheschrist.com · 2d
At what point do we acknowledge that both major political parties have failed themselves, and us, and that it’s time for something new to represent everyday Americans?
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
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November 8, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Too lazy to read Mary Shelley’s novel before GDT’s new cinematic adaptation (I might still try to listen to it), so I watched James Whale’s 1931 film instead.

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A ★★★½ review of Frankenstein (1931)
"He’s just resting. Waiting for a new life to come." This being an adaptation (by Garrett Fort and Francis Edward Faragoh) of an adaptation (John L. Balderston‘s American play) of an adaptation (Peggy...
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November 8, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Caught up with THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS. It’s fun, pretty, and mostly a TV show pilot without a second episode until December 2026.

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A ★★★½ review of The Fantastic 4: First Steps (2025)
"Die with yours." I’m all for style over substance and emotional impact over narrative depth, but The Fantastic Four: First Steps is very much a gorgeous toy that sufficiently distractions us for two ...
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November 8, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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My latest movie poster rant for November 2025 release is now up at @thefilmstage.com. #posterizedpropaganda
thefilmstage.com The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · 4d
What's your favorite poster for a new release this month?

@jaredmobarak.com analyzes the poster art of November: thefilmstage.com/posterized-n...
November 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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My latest movie poster rant for November 2025 release is now up at @thefilmstage.com. #posterizedpropaganda
thefilmstage.com The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · 4d
What's your favorite poster for a new release this month?

@jaredmobarak.com analyzes the poster art of November: thefilmstage.com/posterized-n...
November 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
jaredmobarak.com
My latest newsletter is out with thoughts on:

• Ballad of a Small Player
• The Birdcage
• Christy
• Coexistence, My Ass!
• Die My Love
• If You See Something
• Nuremberg
• Peter Hujar's Day
• Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
• Weapons

www.heyhaveyouseen.com/week-ending-...

#heyhaveyouseen
Week Ending 11/7/25
FYC season has begun
www.heyhaveyouseen.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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This is even more delightful than I'd heard.
cinephiliabeyond.org Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 5d
Martin Scorsese and his daughter Francesca read Letterboxd reviews and guessed which Scorsese movie they were about.
November 7, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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From the press kit of THE MAJESTIC:

Directed by Frank Darabont, starring Jim Carrey, Bob Balaban, Jeffrey DeMunn, Hal Holbrook, Laurie Holden, and Martin Landau.

#filmsky
Vintage looking black and white painted poster with a giant Jim Carrey filling the frame and a small Laurie Holden tucked into the bottom left corner. Partial text: Darabont's new film celebrates and salutes the Hollywood of yesterday, a bygone era where audiences marveled at Fred and Ginger...Bogart and Bacall...and Tracy and Hepburn. At the same time, "The Majestic" unveils a bleak era in that heyday of Hollywood, a dark period dominated by the investigation by the United States government into Communist infiltration in the movie industry. It was a time defined by a group of filmmakers branded as "The Hollywood Ten," whose defiant refusal to testify brought them contempt citations, grand jury indictments and, finally, imprisonment. Those ten artists and citizens were screenwriters Alvah Bessie, Lester Cole, Ring Lardner Jr., John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornitz, Adrian Scott and Dalton Trumbo, and directors Edward Dmytryk and Herbert Biberman. "The perception now is that those individuals brought before the committee who did not name names were the heroes of that era," screenwriter Michael Sloane says. "Those that did name names were the villains. At the time, it was just the opposite. Dalton Trumbo was one of the Hollywood Ten. He was given an award by the Writers Guild in 1970, and in his acceptance speech, he said the only true thing that was probably ever said about the blacklist - there were no villains, there were no heroes, there were only victims." "Michael and I have known each other for many years, and we swap reads," the filmmaker says. "In other words, it's important to have trusted critics, people who will read your work and give you honest feedback. Michael's been a trusted critic of mine for years, and I his. So, he handed me this script. And, my reaction was, 'Gosh, I'd really like to make this movie. I really loved the story that much'." Color Publicity slide for THE MAJESTIC with a woman and man looking into each other's eyes while a colorful theater marquee is seen behind them. Caption: Jim Carrey stars as Luke Trimble and Laurie Holden is Adele in "The Majestic" directed/produced by Frank Darabont. "The Majestic" is presented by Castle Rock Entertainment in association with Village Roadshow Pictures and NPV Entertainment, and is distributed by Warner Bros.. Color Publicity slide for THE MAJESTIC with a man in a hat looking through the box office glass at another man getting him his ticket. Caption: (from left) Jeffrey DeMunn is Mayor Ernie Cole and Jim Carrey is Luke Trimble in "The Majestic" directed /produced by Frank Darabont. "The Majestic" is presented by Castle Rock Entertainment in association with Village Roadshow Pictures and NPV Entertainment, and is distributed by Warner Bros..
November 7, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Nazem Kadri: 1000 games.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOPV...
Congrats, Naz!
YouTube video by Calgary Flames
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November 6, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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ratigupta.bsky.social
And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.
santiagomayer.com Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 7d
WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.

Gen Z women aren't playing around.
November 5, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Mamdani has won more votes than the entire population of any of the 5 smallest states.
angus.bsky.social Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 7d
Mamdani has won more votes than there are people in South Dakota.
November 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Fingers crossed that Greece choosing ARCADIA as their Oscar Submission this year means it still might get that US release. I'm desperate to watch it again.
jaredmobarak.com Jared Mobarak @jaredmobarak.com · 8d
Refreshed my Top Ten of 2025 list for first time since July now that the FYC screeners are coming in. This isn't my voting list as SPARROW IN THE CHIMNEY will be added due to its US release in 2025 and ARCADIA will be removed due it never securing US distribution.

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Best of 2025
in progress ...
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November 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Imagine going up on the stand and saying under oath that you are this much of a little bitch baby
mollyroberts.bsky.social Molly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 8d
The officer Sandwich Guy is charged with assaulting testifies that he could feel the impact of the sandwich through his ballistic vest, and it “exploded all over my uniform.” He says he could “smell the onions and the mustard.”
November 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
jaredmobarak.com
Refreshed my Top Ten of 2025 list for first time since July now that the FYC screeners are coming in. This isn't my voting list as SPARROW IN THE CHIMNEY will be added due to its US release in 2025 and ARCADIA will be removed due it never securing US distribution.

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Best of 2025
in progress ...
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November 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Orson Welles from THE MUPPET MOVIE.
danlehner.bsky.social paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 9d
I think everybody has a “Wallace Shawn from Young Sheldon” — my first one would probably be “Vincent Price, the guy who did the voice of Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective”
November 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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THE BIRDCAGE aged very well. A staple in our house during the 90s. The rare remake that might be better than the original (it's also very good).

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A ★★★★ review of The Birdcage (1996)
"Try more gum." Here's all the evidence you need to refute everyone who says our nation's politics only got this bad because of Trump. Yes, he weaponized it, but Senator and Mrs. Keeley are the specif...
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November 2, 2025 at 10:05 PM