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Diverging from the Path of Least Resistance in Snitch
Underneath Snitch’s B-movie action filmmaking artifice is a simplistic and universal story about the eternal bond between father and son, and the extraordinary lengths many parents will often go to in order to protect their children from the dangerous world we...
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Shelf Life: Adventureland
Shelf Life is a weekly feature that selects a film currently on DVD/Blu-Ray for review.
Of all the R-rated but sentimental comedies to come out of Judd Apatow’s immense talent pool, Greg Mottola’s 2009 Adventureland may be the least raunchy but also the mos...
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The History of Film: The Best Movies of the 2000s
We live in an IMDB world where many people feel The Dark Knight is better than Citizen Kane and Casablanca and Apocalypse Now and the list goes on. While IMDB's top 250, alongside a myriad of other baffling "best movies ever lists," aren't necessarily cataclys...
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Shelf Life: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Shelf Life is a weekly feature that selects a film currently on DVD/Blu-Ray for review.
It wouldn’t be a Terry Gilliam film if something didn’t go catastrophically wrong, but 2009's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus stands out even among the tales of merc...
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Shelf Life: Man of the West
Anthony Mann’s Man of the West depicts the West as a prison from which there is no escape, where those who flee its cesspool of violence and anarchy get pulled back by some invisible force in due time. Mann’s style, at once cheaply utilitarian and psychologica...
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Los Angeles Top 5 (2/1/13–2/7/13)
LA is the greatest place on earth to watch movies. Here are this week’s best picks.
1) Port of Shadows at Laemmle Theaters (2/1 thru 2/7 ONE WEEK ONLY)
Marcel Carne's fog-bounded French poetic masterpiece is back in theaters for a limited time. Quelle ch...
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With a Little Help from Our Friends
With A Little Help From Our Friends is dedicated to highlighting the best pieces of writing on film published around the Internet. Now, for your reading pleasure ….
For your reading enjoyment …
Check out Jim Gabriel’s thoughts on Zero Dark Thirty. Beyond the...
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Netflix Instant Picks 1/25/13-1/31/13
Every week at Movie Mezzanine, we pick some of the best films currently on Netflix Instant in the United States and Canada. Whether they are big releases or hidden gems, these movies make your subscription worth the price. From each library we select one Newly...
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NYC Top 5 (Week of 1/21/13-1/27/13)
New York City may get all the new releases first, but there’s a lot more to the film culture here than just what’s in the mainstream theaters! Every week we bring you the top 5 cinematic events to check out.
1. An Evening Celebrating New Cinema From Haiti (FI...
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Los Angeles Top 5 (1/11/13–1/18/13)
L.A. is the greatest city on earth to watch movies. Here are this week's best picks.
1. Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons at The Egyptian (FRIDAY 1/11, 7:30PM)
The American Cinematheque is running a program called Motion Picturesque: Cinema At I...
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