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Reverse Pop Culture Primer: ‘Silence of the Lambs’ vs. ‘South Park’
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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The Darren Aronofsky Retrospective: ‘Pi’
Many directors are maligned for going over-the-top. In the case of Darren Aronofsky, it’s what put him on the map. Aronofsky, best known for Requiem for a Dream and Black Swan, is the purest example of an uncompromising filmmaker. If he is going for something,...
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This Week in the Death of Cinema: Spielberging!
Sometimes it feels like there’s a new article every week decrying the death of cinema. I thought about that and decided, “why not make that feeling true?” So here it is, a weekly column chronicling the slow demise of the art form we love so much.
There are ...
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Shelf Life: Phantom Lady (Robert Siodmak, 1944)
Shelf Life is a weekly feature from that selects a film currently on DVD/Blu-Ray for review.
Anyone who has seen Robert Siodmak’s The Killers knows the director’s gift for shadows. With his cinematographer, Elwood Bredell, Siodmak cast the extrapolated adap...
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Oscar Talk: Reactions to the Nominations
Writers Russell Hainline and Andreas Stoehr discuss this morning's Academy Award nominations.
Russell: Congratulations this morning to all of the nominees, including to 2013's Best Picture winner, Lincoln. With the utterly stunning snubs of Affleck and Bige...
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Movie Mettle: 5 Gory Horror Films 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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Keeping Sane During Awards Season
They’re coming! This week we’ll learn the nominations for the 85th Annual Academy Awards. We’re almost near the end!
From mid-September to the end of February, the movie world gets caught up in one, giant, all-consuming conversation: Awards! It’s all too mu...
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The Worst of Movies of 2012
Being a firm believer on beginning with a note of optimism, I made a conscious decision to open Movie Mezzanine by releasing a list of our favorite 50 movies of 2012. But now that the honeymoon phase has come to an end it’s time to briefly discuss the pieces o...
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Morality In Criticism
A question has come up frequently of late, though it never really goes away, to wit: is a critic under any obligation to render a moral judgment on a film? This piece over at Criticwire addresses the issue directly with regards to the depictions of torture in ...
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Something Old, Something New: Lonesome / Girl Walk//All Day
Something Old, Something New is a weekly feature 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 i...
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