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All posts by Sam Fragoso
With A Little Help From Our Friends
Every Monday With A Little Help From Our Friends dedicates time highlighting the best pieces of writing on film and television published around the Internet.
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Calum Marsh pens his first article for Film.com: Girls Gone Wild: Sprin...
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Creating Memorable Art, Talented People Making Bad Movies, and The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
Last week I attended a screening of The Incredible Burt Wonderstone with every intent to review the film here on Movie Mezzanine. Unfortunately, five minutes after the credits began to roll I had essentially forgotten about the swing and a miss of a comedy I h...
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Halle Berry Leads A Captivating and Pulsating, Albeit Morally Ambiguous Thriller With The Call
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As a 911 operator, veteran Jordan Turner is the one difference between someone living and someone dying. Contemplate that notion for a moment. Millions of lives in your hands, lives depending on your actions, your immediate response to their crisis. After y...
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Battle of Directors: Thomas McCarthy vs. Jeff Nichols
Battle of Directors is a weekly column that pits two filmmakers against one another, sheds light on their respective filmographies, and then asks readers to state which director they prefer. Thoughtful discourse and discussion is encouraged and desired. Enjoy!...
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With A Little Help from Our Friends
Every Monday With A Little Help From Our Friends dedicates time highlighting the best pieces of writing on film and television published around the Internet.
For your reading enjoyment …
The most creative review of Ruby Sparks I've seen. Pure gold from Sam B...
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The Results: Best Movies of the 2000s
About a month ago staff, friends, and readers of Movie Mezzanine listed their favorite films of the 2000s. When it was all said and done, we had a little more than 60 ballots submitted. Now, after crunching numbers for what felt like decades, I've aggregated a...
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Dueling Reviews of Sam Raimi’s Divisive Disney Fantasy Oz the Great and Powerful
By: Tina Hassannia
Grade: C-
Warner may keep a draconian eye on any cultural product with a smidgen of resemblance to the beloved classic The Wizard of Oz--for which they have owned the rights since 1996--and while that particular film has comprehensively pe...
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Battle of Directors: Guillermo del Toro vs. Sam Raimi
Battle of Directors is a weekly column that pits two filmmakers against one another, sheds light on their respective filmographies, and then asks readers to state which director they prefer. Thoughtful discourse and discussion is encouraged and desired. Enjoy!...
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With a Little Help From our Friends
Every Monday With A Little Help From Our Friends dedicates time highlighting the best pieces of writing on film and television published around the Internet.
For your reading enjoyment …
Here's a thoughtful article on the responsibility that Hollywood and th...
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Embargoes, Journalism Mores, and The Hollywood Reporter’s Early Review of Oz the Great and Powerful
This past Thursday The Hollywood Reporter published the first review of Oz the Great and Powerful, Disney’s latest sci-fi/fantasy excursion directed by Sam Rami. Although Oz will not be released until this Friday (March 8) film critic Todd McCarthy and his res...
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