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The Cult of Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise imbues every performance with an exciting amount of personality and charisma. There is no one more fun to watch onscreen on a consistent basis. Yet the world remembers: He still jumped on Oprah’s couch.
Despite a prolific career, years of apologizi...
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“Hungry Hearts”
It used to be that filmmakers served up witchcraft, mutant babies, and the Devil himself as allegories for the anxieties of new parenthood. In Saverio Costanzo’s Hungry Hearts, we get something both blander and possibly more frightening: the 21st-century obses...
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Sex and Death on Film 101
Sexual education in North American schools is lacklustre to say the least, slowly progressing and occasionally spouting misinformation (it’s supposed to be HOW big?). As a result, many young people first learn about sex and related issues from movies and telev...
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Mama Who Bore Me: On Motherhood, Horror, and Jennifer Kent’s “The Babadook”
In some way, Sigmund Freud was right: Many of us are haunted by our mothers, and they can be scary as hell. Perceived as caring nurturers, our mothers hold a singular power over us, and when that power is used for evil, the deliciousness of the reversal is too...
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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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Birthday Wishes: The Late Ruth Gordon
Ruth Gordon's birthday is today. Gordon may have passed away in 1985 at the age of 88, but she lives on in cinema, which is a particularly long-lasting print to leave. Born in Quincy, Massachusetts, Gordon was a versatile talent, winning an Oscar for acting an...
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