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The Penny-Pinching Cinephile (8/1/13–8/7/13)
Welcome to The Penny-Pinching Cinephile, a weekly spotlight of the best free flicks on the web. ‘Cuz sometimes you gotta eat.
1.) The Stunt Man
Featuring a ferocious (and Oscar-nominated) performance from Peter O'Toole as the maniacal director of a WWI e...
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Netflix Instant Picks (7/27/13—8/1/13)
Every week at Movie Mezzanine, we pick some of the best films currently on Netflix Instant. Whether they are big releases or hidden gems, these movies make your subscription worth the price. Read on for this week’s picks.
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The Intouchables (Olivier Nakache ...
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De Niro and Travolta Square Off In the Searingly Banal ‘Killing Season’
When viewed as a battle of awful accents and shoddy cat and mouse intrigue, Killing Season fully succeeds. The tagline for the film reads “The purest form of war is one on one,” quite the contrary here, as the latest film from Mark Steven Johnson (Ghost Rider,...
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The Penny-Pinching Cinephile (7/13/13–7/17/13)
Welcome to The Penny-Pinching Cinephile, a weekly spotlight of the best free flicks on the web. ‘Cuz sometimes you gotta eat.
1.) The Third Man
One of the finest films ever made, Carol Reed's The Third Man stars Joseph Cotten as a disillusioned fiction wri...
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Netflix Instant Picks (7/12/13—7/18/13)
Every week at Movie Mezzanine, we pick some of the best films currently on Netflix Instant. Whether they are big releases or hidden gems, these movies make your subscription worth the price. Read on for this week’s picks.
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Rango (Gore Verbinski, 2011)
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Korean Import ‘The Tower’ Can’t Stand On Its Own
There are remakes and there are reboots, and then there are carbon copies like The Tower, a new-to-DVD Korean import that shamelessly reinterprets the 1974 American disaster epic The Towering Inferno for modern-day audiences. It’s needlessly familiar and hardl...
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The Penny-Pinching Cinephile (6/25/13–7/1/13)
Welcome to The Penny-Pinching Cinephile, a weekly spotlight of the best free flicks on the web. ‘Cuz sometimes you gotta eat.
1.) Koyaanisqatsi
Featuring a now-iconic score from Phillip Glass, the unique poetics of documentary/visual essay Koyaanisqatsi ...
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Looking Back: ‘It’s a Gift’
Family life is by its essence a form of captivity. It means being chained to a unit of people, and the fact that this bondage is abstract makes it that much harder to escape. Family life is a source of frustration, makes one pace like a trapped animal, and bes...
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Netflix Instant Picks (6/21/13—6/27/13)
Every week at Movie Mezzanine, we pick some of the best films currently on Netflix Instant. Whether they are big releases or hidden gems, these movies make your subscription worth the price. Read on for this week’s picks.
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Beauty Is Embarrassing (Neil Berke...
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Netflix Instant Picks (6/14/13—6/21/13)
Every week at Movie Mezzanine, we pick some of the best films currently on Netflix Instant. Whether they are big releases or hidden gems, these movies make your subscription worth the price. Read on for this week’s picks.
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Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001)...
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