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All posts by Brogan Morris
Looking Back: ‘Terminal Station’
It's unsurprising how little-known Terminal Station is, even among fans of stars Montgomery Clift, Jennifer Jones or director Vittorio De Sica. But then it has been going by another name since it was released in a truncated version in 1954 - that would be the ...
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History of Film: ‘Taxi Driver’
Editor’s note: Taxi Driver is one of the ten best films of the 1970s voted on by staff, friends, and readers of Movie Mezzanine. For the sake of surprise we’ll wait to reveal where this and every other film ranks on the list until the very end. We hope you en...
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‘Thor: The Dark World’: A Shiny, Very Expensive and Uncreative Turd of a Motion Picture
Let's be real for a minute: Marvel Studios has to date produced one fairly impressive spectacle (The Avengers) and five mediocre superhero adaptations, all of which find themselves interlinked within the same universe. Increasingly, each Marvel film offers ple...
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‘Filth’ Is Filthy Fun
"This is what a cunt looks like," says Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson (James McAvoy), photographing his best friend Bladesy (Eddie Marsan) as they holiday together in Hamburg. Bruce is taking a break from secretly screwing over his "polis" colleagues back ...
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‘The Fifth Estate’ Lacks The Intrigue of Its Subject
A fantastic performance by Benedict Cumberbatch fails to save everything else.
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Hemsworth & Bruhl Vie For Position In Strong Scripted F1 Drama ‘Rush’
Ron Howard, the director responsible for respectable, initially celebrated works such as A Beautiful Mind and Cinderella Man, falls victim to the pitfalls of retrospective criticism more than most. You can find highly positive contemporaneous reviews of A Beau...
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Reevaluation: ‘Only God Forgives’ Isn’t A Perfect Film, But Its Dream Is Potent
Nicolas Winding Refn’s latest picture, Only God Forgives, could be referred to as ‘pure style,' in that it's obsessed with its own craft. Mannered and deliberate, Only God Forgives finds Refn wholeheartedly rejecting the docu-style of his early work and instea...
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