Author: Hunter Mobley

• April 13, 2025

  Stolen Kingdom – Review [Florida Film Festival]

  

  Opening film at the 2025 Florida Film Festival “Stolen Kingdom” is an incredibly engaging documentary about a subculture of theme parks that remains largely undocumented. Despite this being Director Josh Bailey’s feature film debut, he is very adept at easing the audience into the world of theme park trespassers (or “Urban Explorers” as they affectionately…
• February 5, 2025

  Is “The Brutalist” Trying Too Hard? – Review

  

  A Complicated (But Ultimately Positive) Review of One of the Most Celebrated Movies of 2024 Adrien Brody as Laszlo Toth in the commissioned library at Van Buren Manor in “The Brutalist”, dir. Brady Corbet After now seeing The Brutalist twice within the span of a few weeks, it’s obvious that much of the plaudits heaped…
• August 4, 2021

  The Unspoken Beauty Behind ‘The Green Knight’

  

  “One.. Year.. Hence” These are the words bellowed out by the towering, emerald, Green Knight at the beginning of the film. The words linger in the air and through the halls as a fatalistic promise. There is something almost poetic about David Lowery’s ‘The Green Knight’ being pushed 427 days off of its original release…
• June 21, 2021

  Tales from Tribeca (At Home)

  

              Is the Virtual Film Festival Here to Stay? As vaccinations are continually rolling out and life seems to be returning to some sense of normalcy, there are certain things that feel as though they will never be the same in a post-COVID world.             Thousands of employers have realized that it is cheaper to…
• May 12, 2021

  “INVINCIBLE” and the ‘Third Wave’ of Superhero Stories

  

  Or, how the Superhero genre is following a similar arc to the Westerns of yesteryear. March 29th, 1993 marked the day of the 65th Academy Awards (don’t worry, this isn’t another Oscars article). Of all the notable Academy Awards ceremonies over the years, this one is not usually identified as being massively historically significant, except…
• April 27, 2021

  “Well That Was Weird”: A Recap of the Most Bizarre Oscars Ever

  

  In many ways, The 93rd Academy Awards was exactly the awards ceremony that 2020 deserved. It seems only fitting that the weirdest year in modern human history would lead to the strangest movie year in recent memory and an even odder Academy Awards Ceremony. Nothing about this year’s event seemed ordinary, from the decision to…