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With A Little Help From Our Friends
Every Monday With A Little Help From Our Friends dedicates time highlighting the best pieces of writing on film and television published around the Internet.
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Right now I'm listening to the LAMBcast, in which Joel Burman and compa...
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Our Favorite Bio-Pics, From Goodfellas to Malcolm X
With the nationwide release of 42 this Friday, the bio-pic chronicling the color barrier-breaking baseball career of Jackie Robinson, we here at Movie Mezzanine thought it would be enjoyable and topical to discuss some of our favorite films from the bio-pic ge...
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Movie Mettle: Five Terribly Awful Teen Flick Sequels To Test Your Limits
Movie Mettle is a weekly column for moviegoers with weak constitutions. Wish you had the balls to sit through the goriest of horror movies? Want to build up your resistance to weepy rom-coms? Each week we’ll give you a range of five movies that will test your ...
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Top 15 Movies That Demand Repeat Viewings
Most great movies get better with subsequent viewings. But why? Is it because of their raw, unique narration? The advancement of their humor? Or even the slightly diluted shock of their violence? For whatever reason(s), the films below are the 15 I think most ...
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With A Little Help From Our Friends
Every Monday With A Little Help From Our Friends dedicates time highlighting the best pieces of writing on film and television published around the Internet.
For your reading enjoyment …
Matt Patches discusses where The Host is ostensibly rooted: Mormonism.
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Reverse Pop Culture Primer: Monty Python and the Holy Grail vs. Endless Fourth-Grade Quotations
Welcome to Reverse Pop Culture Primer! Every week I take a famous catchphrase, punchline, or spoiler that I learned from another part of pop culture without ever seeing the movie it references. How does knowing the joke backwards affect my experience of the mo...
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Top 10 Non-Animated, G-Rated Films
In America, non-animated, G-rated movies are a rare thing. And while the rating is generally home for playing-it-safe animated features, occasionally, a memorable live action flick makes it through. And part of the fun in researching this list was discovering ...
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With A Little Help From Our Friends
Every Monday With A Little Help From Our Friends dedicates time highlighting the best pieces of writing on film and television published around the Internet.
For your reading enjoyment …
Eric D. Snider eviscerates what is commonly referred to as a "meloturds...
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Something Old, Something New: Duelle / Spring Breakers
Something Old, Something New is a bi-weekly column that creates a double feature with a film released in the last few years and an older movie. These films contain aesthetic, narrative and/or thematic parallels that can erase decades of separation and show how...
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10 Movie Franchises Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson Could Improve
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has developed a habit of stepping into established series/franchises. He’s become – as director John M. Chu puts it – “franchise Viagra.” Between this week’s G.I. JOE: Retaliation, Fast Five, The Mummy Returns, and Journey 2: The Myst...
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