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Russell Hainline

Russell Hainline is a writer currently living in Santa Monica, CA. He graduated from Duke University and attended The Ohio State University for grad school. He is a writer for several film criticism outlets, including his own blog, thepasswordisswordfish.com. He is the host of The Long and Late Movie Show, a weekly film podcast. He is a fugitive from a chain gang. He is number four. He is legend. He is Sam. Follow on Twitter.

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Jack the Giant Slayer: More of a Human-Sized Failure Than a Giant One

12 years ago by Russell Hainline

C+ It's impossible to imagine a good Jack and the Beanstalk film. The fairy tale itself simply isn't cinematic. When you add to the equation the sheer degree of difficulty in creating believable effects work for giants, beanstalks, and a kingdom in the sky,...

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Movie Mezzanine’s Oscars Liveblog 2013!

12 years ago by Russell Hainline

Welcome to Movie Mezzanine's first ever Oscars Liveblog. We'll be here all night, making quips, sharing predictions, gawking at the winners and getting massively drunk. Your livebloggers for the evening will be Corey Atad, Jake Cole, Kristen Sales, Russell Hai...

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Getting Excited for the Oscars with Russell and Corey

12 years ago by Russell Hainline

The Oscars are almost here, so we though we should talk a bit about them. What are we excited about? What are we dreading? Who do we think will win? Who do we want to see thrown into an active volcano? Russell and Corey Atad talked about it and here are the ...

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Los Angeles Top 5 (2/15/13- 2/21/13)

12 years ago by Russell Hainline

LA is the greatest place on earth to watch movies. Here are this week's best picks. 1. Like Someone in Love at the Laemmle Royal (STARTS FRIDAY 2/15, RUNS ALL WEEK) Abbas Kiarostami, director of Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us, Ten, and Certi...

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Identity Thief/Side Effects: Two Paths to High Concept Failure

12 years ago by Russell Hainline

D+ "Two high-concept roads diverged in an AMC And sorry I had to travel both." - Robert Frost, 2/8/13 Identity Thief, the newest magnum opus by Seth Gordon, and Side Effects, the grandest of finales by Steven Soderbergh, are cut from the exact same clo...

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Parker: When A Movie Seems To Simply… Exist

12 years ago by Russell Hainline

C There's nothing especially bad about Parker, 2013's first entry into the Jason Statham filmography. There's nothing especially good either. I was never bored, yet I was never enthralled. We get a few entertaining if implausible heists, a few violent and f...

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Los Angeles Top 5 (1/25/13–1/31/13)

12 years ago by Russell Hainline

LA is the greatest place on earth to watch movies. Here are this week's best picks. 1. Near Dark at the Cinefamily (FRIDAY 1/25, MIDNIGHT) Perhaps you like vampire films, but Breaking Dawn Part 2 isn't doing it for you. Perhaps you liked the directio...

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The Last Stand: Something Old, Something New

12 years ago by Russell Hainline

B+ Christmas morning. Tiny puppies licking my face. A plate of crispy bacon. The embrace of a loved one. The last forty-five minutes of The Last Stand. As I walked home from the theatre after watching Kim Ji-Woon's first American production, The Last Sta...

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Hainline’s 50 Most Anticipated Films of 2013

12 years ago by Russell Hainline

If you're like me, you have insane enthusiasm the mainstream and the independent. The monsters within and the literal monsters. The artsy and the fartsy. I've ranked the fifty films I'm most looking forward to this year, provided one line descriptions, and lis...

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‘A Haunted House:’ Fifty Examples of Marlon Wayans’ Sense of Humor

12 years ago by Russell Hainline

F I took copious notes during A Haunted House, shaking off hand cramps and straining to listen to the dialogue over the howls of laughter from the man sitting to my left and the snores of the man sitting to my right. I fell somewhere in between my two aisle...