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All posts by Jake Cole
Netflix Instant Picks 1/11/13-1/17/13
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: Lonesome / Girl Walk//All Day
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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‘Overtime’: Not Quite a Time and a Half
The sight of two hitmen in suits in any film made after 1994 is always a worrying sight. The Tarantino knockoff could have been its own section in Blockbuster during the late-’90s, with some of the dreck (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, The Boondock Saint...
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The Best Blu-Rays of 2012
VHS reigned as the most popular home video format for 20 years before DVDs replaced it, and DVDs enjoyed just half that time before Blu-Ray emerged as the studio-backed video format. Now hints of 4K TVs and Red-Ray threaten to give this latest usurper but half...
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Netflix Instant Picks of the Week 1/4/13-1-10/13
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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‘Promised Land’: Mining Hot Air
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It would be unfair to Milk to say that Gus Van Sant returns to its realm of soft-peddled liberal pablum with Promised Land. Much as the director’s biopic of Harvey Milk seemed tailor-made for the socially liberal, artistically conservative mindset of the...
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The Top 10 Criterion Releases of 2012
Gauging audience reaction of some of its new selections, Criterion had a bit of a mild year in 2012. An upgrade-heavy schedule filled with some real head-scratchers (My Life as a Dog? Really?) made the company look a bit shaky compared to its colleague across ...
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