Jared Mobarak

My latest movie poster rant for March 2026 releases is up at @thefilmstage.com.

#posterizedpropaganda

Screenshot of TSN TradeCentre draft board.

Loving the TSN TradeCentre lottery dry run. They couldn't source a Capitals logo so they just used the NHL crest. And Winnipeg is Winnpeg.

Screenshot from TSN TradeCentre of Jeff O'Neill in tight white tennis outfit holding ping pong paddle and Marty Biron in a suit as James Duthie walks towards the camera. White screen behind the ping pong table has the orange MARTY SUPREME title treatment large.

Marty "Supreme" Biron squeaking by Jeff O'Neill in full costume at the ping pong table on TSN TradeCentre.

One trade all morning, but they're all still having fun.

So much good work this year! Everyone went all out—including you :)

Week Ending 3/6/26 Time for the Oscar alts

My latest newsletter is out with thoughts on:

• Fallout - Season Two (Prime)
• Pompei: Below the Clouds (limited)
• Youngblood [1986] (DVD)
• Youngblood [2026] (Regal Quaker)

Also a collection of my fave 2026 Oscar alt-posters.

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

#heyhaveyouseen #filmsky

Presenting the #Oscars illustration of the 98th The Academy Awards Best Picture Nominees 2026! And for the first time ever, I feature in one of the illustrations as a bonus extra (quite literally in the film).

#Oscars2026

Charlotte Day Wilson - High Road YouTube video by Charlotte Day Wilson

Charlotte Day Wilson's "High Road" from PATCHWORK

#2026inmusic

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B&W Publicity Photo - James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhaal in SECRETARY. Photo: Holly Stein. ©2002 Lions Gate Films.

Color Publicity Slide - Maggie Gyllenhaal in SECRETARY. Photo: Bruce Birmelin. ©2002 Lions Gate Films.

Color Publicity Slide - James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhaal in SECRETARY. Photo: Bruce Birmelin. ©2002 Lions Gate Films.

From the press kit of SECRETARY:

Directed by Steven Shainberg. Starring James Spader, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jeremy Davies, Lesley Ann Warren, Stephen McHattie, Patrick Bauchau, Jessica Tuck, and Osgood Perkins.

#filmsky #moviesky

Such a pure and fun phenomenon!

This film is highly recommended by me too … although it won’t be the same after having experienced the never-ending train of production logo stingers with a TIFF press crowd that started cheering whenever a new one appeared.

I mean, Cinnamon Toast Crunch IS delicious haha

Watch Your Back YouTube video by Cinnamon Toast Crunch

Uh … this cannibal cereal commercial just played during the Sabres game. Talk about a CHOICE. #mustcinnadust

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Yumi Zouma - Drag (Official Video) YouTube video by Yumi Zouma

Yumi Zouma's "Drag" from NO LOVE LOST TO KINDNESS

#2026inmusic

www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9I-...

Poster for YOUNGBLOOD. Title in the middle above a hockey scene of the main character skating on a goalie with two opponents trailing behind him. Above the title is a collage of three characters. The lead is largest (Ashton James' head wearing a helmet), followed by his father to the right side (Blair Underwood chest up in profile), and teach captain smallest in front of both (Henri Picard in jersey, no helmet, facing us).

New YOUNGBLOOD epitomizes why you remake a movie. Takes everything problematic about original and uses it to build a modern story that teaches its characters (and audience) why. Strong revisionist work that actually gives predecessor newfound relevance as its bygone source. Full review Friday.

Lande Hekt - Lucky Now YouTube video by Lande Hekt

Lande Hekt's "Lucky Now" from LUCKY NOW

#2026inmusic

www.youtube.com/watch?v=C973...

We've renamed the DOD the Department of War. Our troops are Warfighters. No of course we're not "at war" you dumb lib

Sabres Live screenshot. Duffer and Marty on left with the headphones on looking at Dahlin on Right in red/black Sabres shirt. The TNT rally towels are on the table in front of them.

Dahlin when Marty and Duffer show the TNT towels on Sabres Live: "No RD 8th place, eh? For me?" #sabres

Ryan Coogler is the first person in history to direct 2 films that have won Best Ensemble at The Actor Awards.

• Black Panther (2018)
• Sinners (2025)

See the full winners list: bit.ly/ActorWins26

Very bummed to learn my library canceled their Hoopla subscription last year. If yours still uses it, definitely check it out.

TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels, each showing a different scene. In addition, there’s a small “kicker” panel under the fourth panel. PANEL 1 The panel shows a counter at a fast food restaurant. We can see a couple of customers, and a couple of workers. The workers are wearing hats that very vaguely resemble hamburger buns. A sign on the wall shows a smiling hamburger with eyes, below the caption “Soilent Green YUM.” A smaller sign says “SAFETY” in larger letters followed by tiny print, which says “is a word we use a lot so you can’t sue us.” The worker at the cash register is turning to speak directly to the reader. WORKER: To get an official photo I.D., I have to go to the nearest government office, which is 90 miles away, and I don’t have a car, and even if I did my boss won’t give me a weekday off. PANEL 2 We’re in what looks like someone’s back yard. In the foreground is a garden, with some sort of plant being grown in tidy rows. An elderly woman is kneeling on the ground in front of the garden, wearing a floppy straw hat, an apron with a floral patter, and holding a trowel. She speaks directly to the reader. WOMAN: I can’t get I.D. without a birth certificate. But when I was born home births didn’t get birth certificates. PANEL 3 A mover wearing jeans and a black tank top is carrying a sofa as he’s talking to the reader. MOVER: The state charges $60 for a driver’s license…. but first I’d need a copy of my birth certificate, which is $30. I can’t afford 90 dollars to vote! PANEL 4 This panel shows the interior of a coffee shop. A man and a woman sit together at a table. They're both looking at their devices, him annoyed, her dismissive. MAN: Why wouldn’t anyone be able to get an I.D.? Idiots! WOMAN: People like that don’t deserve to vote. SMALL KICKER PANEL UNDER THE BOTTOM OF THE CARTOON The man from panel 4 yelling at Barry MAN: If it’s easy for me it must be easy for everybody! That’s just science!

How Hard Could Getting Voter ID Be?

Read more cartoons! ---> #PoliCartoon
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Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

“Can you believe the Epstein guys aren’t being punished? We’re supposed to protect children,” says a person who lives in a country where children go hungry in order to pay for weapons that will kill children in other countries and to enable genocides where children are called terrorists and targeted

Week Ending 2/27/26 Dunk & Egg & USA

My latest newsletter is out with thoughts on:

• Come See Me in the Good Light (Apple TV)
• Dreams (Regal Quaker)

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

#heyhaveyouseen #filmsky #moviesky

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

Criterion, Watermelon, MUBI, Kino Lorber, AMC/IFC/Shudder, Film Movement, Fandor, Strand, and Magnolia all have their own streaming services to show you independent, foreign, classic, and bold new voices.

Until their owners also turn oligarch or they inevitably get bought by one.

Week Ending 2/27/26 Dunk & Egg & USA

My latest newsletter is out with thoughts on:

• Come See Me in the Good Light (Apple TV)
• Dreams (Regal Quaker)

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

#heyhaveyouseen #filmsky #moviesky

A Complimentary Profile Of Jason Lee That Was Surprisingly Difficult To Publish | Defector If you walked down Colorado Boulevard in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles at some point in the past three years, you might have noticed a modest, pueblo-style beige building with “PHOTO” pai...

As someone who has seen Mallrats more times than I care to admit, this is a fascinating profile that has a couple twists along the way. Crazy how even mentioning the word "Scientology" to a former Scientologist provokes a Pavlovian response of hostility and near-immediate legal action.

We genuinely need a revival of virtue in the United States.

In my view, that’s almost as critical a project as any other structural reform project necessary in the wake of trumpism. We should become a society that actually values human life such that we would feel shame about this.

“Roughly $24 billion of Paramount’s takeover financing is coming from the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia. [The] journalist-killing kingdom is poised to become a part-owner of one of the world’s most influential news organizations.”

My mother during a trailer for SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU:

“Why is Obama getting a movie?”

He’s the first Black president in United States history!! Regardless of your thoughts on his politics, how could he NOT get movies made about him?!

The result of my parents being Fox News-pilled for decades.