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All posts by Jake Cole
‘Star Trek Into Darkness’
J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek films are not the worst examples of Hollywood’s risk-reducing homogenization of its populist entertainment, but they may display this worrying trait most visibly for what they chuck out of their source material. As a property, Star Trek ...
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Netflix Instant Picks (5/10/13—5/16/13)
Every week at Movie Mezzanine, we pick some of the best films currently on Netflix Instant in the United States and Canada. Whether they are big releases or hidden gems, these movies make your subscription worth the price. From each library we select one Newly...
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Netflix Instant Picks 5/3/13—5/9/13
Every week at Movie Mezzanine, we pick some of the best films currently on Netflix Instant in the United States and Canada. Whether they are big releases or hidden gems, these movies make your subscription worth the price. From each library we select one Newly...
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Review of Something in the Air
B+
The U.S. title of Olivier Assayas’ new film, Something in the Air, misleads from the direct implications of the original Apès Mai, translated literally as “After May”. The former gives the impression of trouble stirring, of planets aligning to generate a...
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Shelf Life: Forbidden Planet
Contrary to the largely political bent of the 1950s boon of science-fiction films, Fred M. Wilcox’s 1956 Forbidden Planet exists on largely psychological planes, played out in tense interpersonal relations that frequently hinge on Freudian overtones. Its deep-...
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Netflix Instant Picks 4/26/13—5/3/13
Every week at Movie Mezzanine, we pick some of the best films currently on Netflix Instant in the United States and Canada. Whether they are big releases or hidden gems, these movies make your subscription worth the price. From each library we select one Newly...
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Shelf Life: The Yards
Shelf Life is a weekly feature that selects a film currently on DVD/Blu-Ray for review.
Operatically bold in his thematic expression of modern America but intimately timed to improvised characterization and serendipitous sights and sounds, James Gray has em...
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Netflix Instant Picks 4/19/13–4/25/13
Every week at Movie Mezzanine, we pick some of the best films currently on Netflix Instant in the United States and Canada. Whether they are big releases or hidden gems, these movies make your subscription worth the price. From each library we select one Newly...
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Netflix Instant Picks 4/12/13—4/18/13
Every week at Movie Mezzanine, we pick some of the best films currently on Netflix Instant in the United States and Canada. Whether they are big releases or hidden gems, these movies make your subscription worth the price. From each library we select one Newly...
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Blu-Ray Review of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
How fitting it is that The Criterion Collection should release Monsieur Verdoux and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp on Blu-Ray in the same month. Both are films respectively searching for morality in World War II’s wake and midst, crafting two of the riche...
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