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When Awards Hurt The Films
In the snark-heavy world of awards blogging, we've forgotten what this time of year should be about.
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’12 Years’ Wins Over Las Vegas Film Critics
'12 Years A Slave' has been winning a rash of critics awards the last week, and today the Las Vegas Film Critics Society joined in the fun also awarding top prize to the Fox Searchlight film along with Steve McQueen for directing and Lupita N'yongo for Support...
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’12 Years’ Dominates Online Film Critics Society Awards
More than two weeks into December and the awards season has fallen into a lull with many critics groups building a consensus behind 12 Years A Slave. 12 Years A Slave is not alone in its multitude of wins however, Cate Blanchett, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Jared Let...
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The Best Film Writing of 2013
Over the past two weeks just about every film site has been publishing lists on top of lists that authoritatively declare The Best and The Worst movies of the year. Movie Mezzanine will be following suit in mid-January, but until then, I've opted to make a dif...
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American Hustle Tops New York Film Critics Circle Awards Despite Stiff Competition
It looks like everything David O Russell and Jennifer Lawrence touch turns to gold.
The New York Film Critics Circle awarded the ensemble pic, American Hustle, the 2013 awards for Best Film, Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Lawrence. But acco...
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Birthday Wishes: Garret Dillahunt
Garret Dillahunt is known to many mainstream audiences for his work on the sitcom Raising Hope, Terminator: The Sarah Conor Chronicles and HBO's Deadwood (still need to see it!), but for us movie fans he has been a character actor for many years popping up in ...
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Weekend Box Office: “Thor” Hammers Hard
With a healthy boost from the Avengers-earned cache and the relative lack of competition on either side of it, Thor: The Dark World opened to $86.1 million, up 31 percent from the opening of the first Thor and the best opening for a Marvel film that didn't hav...
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Critic Speak: Critics Defend Against the Backlash of 12 Years a Slave
12 Years a Slave has been getting great reviews almost across the board, but it has also inspired some excellent writing outside the standard review format as well. Just in the past couple of days we've had two good ones at Movie Mezzanine, but a couple of oth...
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Why Racial Films Must Be Made By Black Directors
Hollywood finally seems interested in telling stories about race that aren't designed to appeal to conservative, white viewers.
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Steve McQueen Finds Beauty In Pain
Steve McQueen is one of the most talented filmmakers working today.
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