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All posts by Sam Fragoso
With a Little Help From Our Friends
Every week With a Little Help from Our Friends dedicates time to highlight the best pieces of writing on film and television published around the Internet. Share more good stories in the comment section.
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Nathan Rabin continues hi...
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Film Critic of the Week: Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
I (like many) was introduced to Ignatiy Vishnevetsky when Roger Ebert hired the poignant film critic to co-host Ebert Presents, a public television show dedicated to discussing films in an intelligent and entertaining manner. The show was short-lived, never re...
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Film Critic of the Week: Matt Prigge
Miraculously juggling graduate school at NYU and a job as the residential film critic for Metro US, Matt Prigge is truly a wonder. That he's able to produce as much as he does, at the level of quality that he does, is something to marvel and admire. Somehow Ma...
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With A Little Help from Our Friends
Every week With a Little Help from Our Friends dedicates time to highlight the best pieces of writing on film and television published around the Internet. Share more good stories in the comment section.
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Jack Giroux of Film Schoo...
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Film Critic of the Week: Michelle Orange
After reading and consuming the ornate prose of Michelle Orange religiously for the past few months, I've come to the conclusion that she is, without a doubt, one of the most (if not the most) engaging and perceptive writers without an online/print outlet to c...
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Ten Best Movies from the 1980s
When we asked the readers of Movie Mezzanine what we could do to better with this "History of Film" feature, the response was understandable and pragmatic: Dive into the films you're hailing as "the best of the decade," as opposed to slapping together a list o...
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With a Little Help from Our Friends
Every week With a Little Help from Our Friends dedicates time to highlight the best pieces of writing on film and television published around the Internet. Share more good stories in the comment section.
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Kate Erbland penned an in...
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‘Paranoia’: An Undercooked Espionage Caper
Adam Cassidy wants more from life.
Born in Brooklyn and raised by his cigar-smoking father Frank (Richard Dreyfuss), who worked a steady job until retirement, Adam (Liam Hemsworth) wants to completely abandon his upbringing and bathe in excess – drive the ext...
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Film Critic of the Week: Matt Singer
Driven by a conversational style of writing, Matt Singer writes to illuminate, not obfuscate.
Previously the founder and head writer of the wildly popular IndieWire blog CriticWire, Singer was recently hired to be the newswire editor for the Chicago-based, ...
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History of Film: The Best Is Yet To Come
Dear Readers of Movie Mezzanine,
Ever since first launching the site I’ve prefaced each film-focused list with the same run-of-the-mill spiel: ranking and objectifying art is an arbitrary exercise that for some inexplicable reason is enjoyable. Unlike films...
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