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All posts by Jake Cole
Netflix Instant Picks 2/22/13—2/28/13
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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Something Old, Something New: Femme Fatale/Side Effects
Steven Soderbergh’s latest, possibly last, theatrical venture, Side Effects, is one of his most thrilling works. This is less because the film is billed as, and occasionally quite effective, as a thriller than the manner in which Soderbergh constantly redefine...
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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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Netflix Instant Picks 2/15/13—2/21/13
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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The Fire Heats Up Cold Euro-Drama
C+
Brigitte Maria Bertele’s The Fire starts innocuously enough, with a thirtysomething physical therapist, Judith (Maja Schöne) heading out for a night at the club alone after her boyfriend (Mark Waschke) calls with an excuse for not coming. She dances inno...
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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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Netflix Instant Picks 2/8/13—2/14/13
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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Stallone Goes Over the Hill in Bullet to the Head
C
Filled with too many jumpy, overexposed helicopter shots that recall a bad CSI-ripoff, the opening of Bullet to the Head hardly does justice to the man whose grimy retelling of Anabasis, The Warriors, made such intimate and frightening use of New York’s u...
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Something Old, Something New: Déjà Vu / Resident Evil: Retribution
Something Old, Something New is a weekly feature that creates a double feature with a film released in the last few years and an older movie. These films contain aesthetic, narrative and/or thematic parallels that can erase decades of separation and show how i...
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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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