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Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 139: “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”
News team...assemble! ...What's that? Oh, right, we're not talking about Ron Burgundy and his anchormen friend this week, we're talking about The Avengers! OK, just one of the Avengers in his latest solo picture: Captain America: The Winter Soldier. (Of course...
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“A Most Wanted Man” A Precise And Moody Curtain Call for Philip Seymour Hoffman
The bulk of the planning for the September 11th attacks did not take place in an Afghan manse or a Saudi backroom -- it happened in an apartment in Hamburg, Germany. Contrary to what the public may think, terrorism is not Middle Eastern, not even Islamic terro...
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“Closed Curtain” Marks A Harrowing Return for Jafar Panahi
Note: This review was originally published during AFI Fest last year.
Anyone who criticizes Jafar Panahi for retreading themes in his work at this juncture of his career is kind of an asshole. The man is under the thumb of a dictatorship and forbidden from ...
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Halftime Report: The Best Movies of 2014 So Far
The year has now half passed us by, which marks a good opportunity to take stock of what it's offered cinematically so far. Releasing a "best of" list for half a year may seem like clickbaiting, and perhaps it is, but it's no more so than any other kind of lis...
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The 2014 Los Angeles Film Festival: “Starred Up” and “Runoff”
The British crime picture is a seemingly ubiquitous genre, and its sister sub-genre, the prison film, is nearly as popular, with Nicolas Winding Refn's Bronson kicking off a renaissance of sorts. Like Bronson, David Mackenzie's Starred Up centers on a charisma...
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History of Film: The Best Movies of the 1960s
It's been a little more than five months since the last installment of our History of Film series, and in that short time Movie Mezzanine has undergone some significant changes. This includes partnerships with Letterboxd and others, accreditation on Rotten Tom...
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The Penny-Pinching Cinephile (5/23/13–6/05/13)
Welcome to The Penny-Pinching Cinephile, a weekly spotlight of the best free flicks on the web. ‘Cuz sometimes you gotta eat.
1) Meek's Cutoff
In Jim Jarmusch's 1995 acid Western Dead Man, a Native American named Nobody (Gary Farmer) tends to the...
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IFFBoston Interview: Bryan Reisberg, “Big Significant Things”
Bryan Reisberg first showed his debut film, Big Significant Things (covered in my first dispatch from Independent Film Festival Boston), at SXSW, went on to screen it at the Indie Grits festival in Columbia, South Carolina, and - immediately following his time...
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IFFBoston 2014, Second Dispatch: “Boyhood”, “We Are the Best!”, “Belle”, “Locke”
There's a running theme throughout Independent Film Festival Boston's 12th annual line-up: the kids aren't alright. The trend began with Beneath the Harvest Sky, and has since continued on with films like documentary Tough Love, and narrative features like I B...
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“Foxcatcher” Gets A Release Date
News regarding a release date for Bennett Miller's Foxcatcher has been a long time coming and today Sony Pictures Classics settled on November 14, 2014. The true story starring Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo and Channing Tatum, is among those in competition at thi...
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