8 years ago
All posts by Katina Vangopoulos
Paul Walker: Loyal To The End
Hollywood is deeply saddened to have lost Paul Walker, one of the real nice guys of cinema. Tributes across social and traditional media have poured in for the actor best known for his role in the Fast and the Furious franchise, some hard-pressed to find adequ...
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AIDS In Cinema Left Out In The Cold
Highlighted by amfAR’s Cannes Film Festival fundraiser in May and increased publicity around December 1, HIV/AIDS is no longer that taboo disease no one cares to talk about. On this day for the last 25 years, World AIDS Day has made a concerted effort to educa...
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Steve McQueen Finds Beauty In Pain
Steve McQueen is one of the most talented filmmakers working today.
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Charlie Hunnam: Hollywood’s Winner of the Week
Charlie Hunnam's decision to drop out of Fifty Shades of Grey may end up saving his career.
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The Art of Lists: Anarchy Disguised As Order
As a recent addition to the Movie Mezzanine team, my first task as a contributor was to offer my picks for the best films of the 1970s for our History of Film archive. It was expected that we'd all agree on a few, while others would scarcely be recognized. Gre...
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‘Runner Runner’: A World of Beautiful People and Corruption You Hardly Care For
The star power one possesses when able to disappear for a few years and come back with a vengeance is limited to a few number of performers. Justin Timberlake is one of those few; his ability to go off the celebrity radar and come back in both the music and fi...
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Where We Come From: The Good and Bad of Location-Specific Cinema
CINEMA is a powerful tool that can be used to show a country’s nationalism to the world. A great deal of pride can be evoked in the mind of a nation through images, and to capture that can have great influence in whatever purpose the film serves. Jean-Pierre J...
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Why Next Year’s ‘Fargo’ FX Series Warrants Equal Doses of Skepticism and Excitement
Fans of Joel and Ethan Coen have had time for the latest news on the upcoming TV adaptation of Fargo to sink in, after it was made public that the FX 10-part series would not feature any of the characters from the source material as originally thought. Instead...
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The ‘Sapphires’ DVD Cover Backlash
The story of a male singer with his four female back-ups getting ready to sing a storm in Saigon during the Vietnam War is a perfectly plausible one, finding success in the form of Australia’s 2012 feelgood hit The Sapphires. It came off a treat and to much cr...
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