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5 Films to See for International Women’s Day
International Women's Day began as a socialist movement to both call attention to the societal and political disadvantages women faced and celebrate the political and economic achievements of women. As time passed on the event morphed into something more resem...
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Redone and Dumber: 5 Unnecessary Remakes
A lot of remakes get a bad wrap. There are some wonderful stories that for whatever reason (setting, format, an enduring quality) that yearn to be revisited. Michael Mann's L.A Takedown needed to be made into Heat; Brian De Palma and Al Pacino famously revisit...
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Actors! They Really Can Do It All?: Four Actors that Released Albums
True story: I work at a record store, and one day I was going through our soul/r&b section straightening it up when I came across a great discovery – Terrence Howard has an album. It’s called Shine Through It. As Terrence Howard will be turning 46 today, i...
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Some Men Want to Watch the World Burn: The Best of Paul WS Anderson
Paul W.S. Anderson is best known for being the director behind the Resident Evil franchise and other video game adaptations like Mortal Kombat. This has often coloured his career in ways both negative and positive. He can't quite shake the distinction of being...
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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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Imagine Me and You: Female Friendship on Film
In the landmark PBS documentary “Growing Up Female” Julia Reichert and Jim Klein sought out to put a spotlight on socialization of girls growing up in America in the 1970s. One of the more troubling aspects of that picture was the prevailing notion that media ...
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Falling Stars: The Peril of Fame in Film
Looking from the outside in, the lives of the rich and the famous look pretty spiffy. They live in awesome houses, they wear awesome clothes, they have awesome accoutrements, and they get to do awesome stuff pretty much all day, every day. But if David Bowie a...
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5 Con Artists Who Dropped the Ball
Focus hits theatres today, and before Movie Mezzanine readers check out that film, let's take a look back at the rich heritage of con flicks in Hollywood history. Ranging from classics like The Sting to American Hustle, there have been countless, effortlessly ...
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Looking for Something That’ll… Break Through: The Posters of David Cronenberg
Film is art. The way a scene is framed can evoke the strongest of emotions. Seeing the face of an excitedly terrified young man as he stares at his older lover through the way her leg seductively bends or having a solitary man walk across a bridge, futuristic ...
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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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