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Opening Acts 1/14/2015
Every day, Opening Acts highlights the best pieces of writing on film, television, and literature published around the Internet. Please share if you like what you see.
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Selma is a Horror Movie by Alyssa Rosenberg. Ms. Rosenberg ex...
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Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” Still Happening According to Al Pacino
Well just about anything regarding what Martin Scorsese is doing is good news, so this update from Al Pacino is certainly welcome. For those unfamiliar, The Irishman is an adaptation of the true crime book I Heard You Paint Houses about the man who claims he k...
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“Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr.” An Intimate, Bittersweet Portrait Of A Star’s Conflicted Father
Airing this month on HBO, Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr. is an intimate documentary portrait of the father of one of the most famous actors of our time. Robert De Niro, Sr. was a well-regarded abstract expressionist painter in the 1940s and 50s wh...
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Don’t Look Inside “The Bag Man”
Growing up on a steady, diverse stream of cinema is one major prerequisite to becoming a filmmaker. Equally important, however, is the possession of personal vision. David Grovic, the first-time director of Cinedigm's The Bag Man, clearly has the former requir...
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Top 10 Non-Franchise Spy Films
With Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit barreling into theaters this weekend, it seems Hollywood will never tire of attaching increasingly-nonsensical phrases onto their most popular spy franchises (Ghost Protocol? Quantum of Solace?); or, in the case of Jack Ryan, tho...
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History of Film: ‘Taxi Driver’
Editor’s note: Taxi Driver is one of the ten best films of the 1970s voted on by staff, friends, and readers of Movie Mezzanine. For the sake of surprise we’ll wait to reveal where this and every other film ranks on the list until the very end. We hope you en...
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Birthday Wishes: Martin Scorsese Is 71 Today
The one and only Marty Scorsese (I can call him Marty) is 71 today. Despite being one of American cinema's most legendary directors, Scorsese didn't win a Best Director Oscar until 2006's The Departed. Some of his most acclaimed films are Taxi Driver (1976), G...
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‘Exit Elena’ A Brilliant, Deceptively Simple Portrait of Multi-Generational Malaise
For a stretch, Exit Elena is by all appearances an unassuming micro-scale drama about a young nurse named Elena (Kia Davis) who takes a job in the Boston suburbs as a live-in aide. While caring for the sweet, elderly Florence (Gert O’Connell), Elena spends eve...
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Luc Besson’s ‘The Family’ Amounts to Nada
A grumpy Robert De Niro walks into a movie theater with an even grumpier Tommy Lee Jones. They each take their reserved seating on the front row, only to be informed that the film they were originally gonna watch, Vincente Minnelli's Some Came Running, was mis...
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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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