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Hugh Jackman 10
A Fitting, Impressive Goodbye
Andy Hoglund writes about "Logan," the latest and purportedly last time Hugh Jackman will play famed X-Man Wolverine.
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 222: “The Prestige”
Are you listening closely? You should really be listening closely to this week's Mousterpiece Cinema, because in this episode of the podcast, Gabe and Josh reveal that there are three parts to any true podcast. The first part is the introduction, wherein they ...
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“Pan” Is A Cut Above Other Fantasy Reimaginings
J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan already had one notorious reimagining in Steven Spielberg’s Hook, and the existence of Joe Wright’s new “prequel” immediately conjures the specter of the dreadful Oz the Great and Powerful: both involve a contrived origin story about th...
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“CHAPPiE”
If Bono directed films, he’d be Neill Blomkamp. His features smugly denounce the ruination of class and racial conflicts while nonetheless seeking easy refuge in clichéd, half-sketched images of said conflicts for the sake of drama. Everyone mocks Elysium and ...
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5 Con Artists Who Dropped the Ball
Focus hits theatres today, and before Movie Mezzanine readers check out that film, let's take a look back at the rich heritage of con flicks in Hollywood history. Ranging from classics like The Sting to American Hustle, there have been countless, effortlessly ...
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Let’s Go Backwards When Forward Fails: Past Informs Present in “Everything Old is New Again” From “All That Jazz”
Songs in the Key of Cinema is a bi-weekly look at the use of songs in film and how that music fits within the context of the film as a whole and a place where we’ll cover the moments in cinema that were music to our eyes and ears.
In Bob Fosse’s All That J...
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Weekend Box Office: Yes, Women Can Open Films
Proving yet again that the traditional Hollywood wisdom stating women don't go to the movies is BS, Disney's Angelina Jolie-starring take on the classic villain Maleficent racked up $70 million domestically and $100 million overseas for the weekend. That's the...
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Weekend Box Office: “X-Men” Opens Big, “Blended” Not So Much
Summer continues on strongly as Memorial Day, one of the bigger movie weekends of the year, marks the start of kids getting out of school and the real summer bucks rolling in. The latest installment in the X-Men franchise, Days of Future Past, claimed $90.7 mi...
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“X-Men: Days of Future Past”: All The Mutants and Pep Talks You Could Ask For
After 61 live-action feature-length DC Comics movies and Marvel Comics pictures, there’s bound to be a bushel of subpar apples in the multi-billion dollar barrel. The 62nd picture hails the return of Bryan Singer to the franchise he helped put on the box offic...
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Top 10 Romantic Fantasy Films
As anyone who has watched nearly any animated Disney film knows, romance and fantasy fit splendidly together. The dizzying rapture of love manifests physically in elements that are very much not of this world. It becomes at once familiar and strange, frighteni...
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