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All posts by Kyle Turner
Opening Acts 3/9/2015
Opening Acts highlights the best pieces of writing on film, television, and literature published around the Internet. Please share if you like what you see.
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See the 9 Strict Rules Every 'Road Runner' Cartoon Had to Follow by Abid...
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Opening Acts 3/6/2015
Opening Acts highlights the best pieces of writing on film, television, and literature published around the Internet. Please share if you like what you see.
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There's no universal "right age" for Aliens, or any other movie by...
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Bring It On Back: The Best of the ’90s
If Twitter is good for one thing, it’s for satiating our inexplicable desire to make lists. So many a critic and film buff to the micro blogging platform to list the best and/or their favorite films of the 1990s with the hashtag #90sTen. I’m not entire sure wh...
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Opening Acts 3/2/2015
Opening Acts highlights the best pieces of writing on film, television, and literature published around the Internet. Please share if you like what you see.
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A Brief History of Crimes Committed in the White House by Mike Pearl. To...
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Love Streams: The Energy of “A Hard Days Night”
From the very first strum of the very first frame, the screen explodes. Not in the literal sense; there aren’t balls of fire or cinders filling up the frame, but there might as well be. No, instead, it’s a horde of fans, Beatlemaniacs, in hot pursuit of John, ...
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Film Critic of the Week: Teo Bugbee
Hello everyone, my name is Kyle Turner, Chief Editor of Movie Mezzanine’s The Balcony, and welcome to Film Critic of the Week, a weekly mini-cast where we pick the brains of our favorite film critics.
Today, we have the superb Teo Bugbee, whose work has...
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Laura Poitras’s Post-9/11 Trilogy is Complete, and You Can Watch the First Two on Fandor
Last night, Laura Potras’s outstanding film Citizenfour took home the coveted prize for Best Documentary Feature. Undoubtedly one of the most exhilarating experiences one can have whilst watching a film, Poitras takes you inside the hotel room as she, journali...
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How I Survived the Oscars
I enjoy a lot of things. Coffee, movies, movies about coffee (shout out to A Coffee in Berlin), long walks on the beach, etc. I do not enjoy the Oscars. Partially, it’s the pretentious hipster inside of me that’s bitter over films like Under the Skin and Nymph...
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Coded Switch: “The Imitation Game” and The Queer Film
As a film, The Imitation Game is fine: a conventional, but not unenjoyable little biopic. Benedict Cumberbatch’s performance is distracting, the use of archival footage is sort of atrocious, but it’s suspenseful like a BBC movie, which is fine by me. But I’m l...
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The Single Cinephile’s Guide to Anti-Valentine’s Day Films
To give you a sense of how I feel about Valentine’s Day, I’ll share two short stories. First, a couple years ago, I had a “platonic” Valentine, for whom I prepared Hershey kisses by removing the paper tags in each and replaced them with various lyrics from Elt...
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