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All posts by Sam Fragoso
Battle of Directors: Robert Altman vs. Sidney Lumet
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 …
I imagine just about everyone reading this article watched the 85th Aca...
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Movie Mezzanine’s Oscars Liveblog 2013!
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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Diverging from the Path of Least Resistance in Snitch
Underneath Snitch’s B-movie action filmmaking artifice is a simplistic and universal story about the eternal bond between father and son, and the extraordinary lengths many parents will often go to in order to protect their children from the dangerous world we...
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Critic Interview: David Ehrlich Talks Making Movies, Twitter Benefits, Film Criticism, the Future and Close-Up.
In this first installment of Critic Interviews I sit down with acclaimed writer David Ehrlich.
Whether he's opining on the latest video-gamed adapted sci-fi movie Silent Hill: Revelation or the new meditative Abbas Kiarostami film Like Someone In Love, David'...
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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 …
Decided to listen to the very enjoyable podcast Operation Kino. This we...
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Beautiful Creatures: Satanic and Silly
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College-bound senior in high school Ethan Wate (Aiden Ehrenreich) wants to escape Gatlin, South Carolina. He’s tired of the archaic ways of the South, the ignorant people, and the lack of culture. Alas, with absence of parents (he's cared for by Viola Da...
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Battle of Directors: Stanley Kubrick vs. Terrence Malick
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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The History of Film: The Best Movies of the 2000s
We live in an IMDB world where many people feel The Dark Knight is better than Citizen Kane and Casablanca and Apocalypse Now and the list goes on. While IMDB's top 250, alongside a myriad of other baffling "best movies ever lists," aren't necessarily cataclys...
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With a Little Help from Our Friends
Every Monday With A Little Help From Our Friends is dedicated to highlighting the best pieces of writing on film and television published around the Internet.
For your reading enjoyment …
The best and the worst of the 55th Grammy awards (which I found to be...
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