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Features (10 posts found)
The Results: Best Movies of the 2000s
About a month ago staff, friends, and readers of Movie Mezzanine listed their favorite films of the 2000s. When it was all said and done, we had a little more than 60 ballots submitted. Now, after crunching numbers for what felt like decades, I've aggregated a...
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7 People Who Should Totally Direct Bond 24
It’s official. Empire is reporting that Same Mendes, who took the James Bond franchise to $1 billion heights with Skyfall, will not be directing the next installment of the franchise. Bond 24, as it’s tentatively called, will thus be handed off to yet another ...
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Battle of Directors: Guillermo del Toro vs. Sam Raimi
Battle of Directors is a weekly column that pits two filmmakers against one another, sheds light on their respective filmographies, and then asks readers to state which director they prefer. Thoughtful discourse and discussion is encouraged and desired. Enjoy!...
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Movie Mettle: 5 Terrifying Movies 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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The Penny-Pinching Cinephile (3/4/13–3/10/13)
Welcome to The Penny-Pinching Cinephile, a weekly spotlight of the best free flicks on the web. ‘Cuz sometimes you gotta eat.
1.) Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Sam Peckinpah's films aren't known for their rosy plots or redemptive characters, but th...
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Something Old, Something New: Floating Clouds / Tabu
Miguel Gomes’ bifurcated Tabu is an ode to the Portuguese concept of saudade, a kind of nostalgia for something long gone. In its first segment, Tabu imbibes this unplaceable sense of loss in an abstract form, roaming around present-day Lisbon in a cocoon of p...
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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 …
Here's a thoughtful article on the responsibility that Hollywood and th...
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Reverse Pop Culture Primer: Planet of the Apes vs. Spaceballs
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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Short Stuff: Watch Jason Willis’s Mind Bending, Sundance Award Winning Catnip: Egress to Oblivion
In a world of features, short films rarely get much attention. Yet the best five-minute shorts usually contain more originality and creativity than your average Hollywood blockbuster. That’s why we launched Short Stuff, a weekly profile on a promising short-fo...
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Really, Bieber? Top 5 “Worst Birthdays” on Film
Worst birthday
— Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) March 2, 2013
We're all sorry for Justin Bieber right now. Poor kid just wanted to go out and have a great time on his 19th. Sadly, he couldn't get his underage friends into a club, so they ended up back at a ...
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