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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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Brian De Palma discusses ...
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Film Critic of the Week: Mark Olsen
The title of this recurring feature suggests that every week I come bearing a new and emerging film critic you should be reading. On most occasions that's an accurate description of this column. However, today we're shaking things up.
While Mark Olsen certa...
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Missing A Woman’s Touch: The Disturbing Lack of Female Voices In Big-Budget Movies
In less than a month after its release, The Heat has already accumulated $129 million dollars domestically, and is well on course to gross more than any other comedy this year. I mention Paul Feig's publicly beloved hit because it's an anomaly -- the rare mo...
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With a Little Help from Our Friends
Every week With A Little Help From Our Friends dedicates time highlighting 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 tackles The ...
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‘R.I.P.D.’: A Banal ‘Men In Black’ Knockoff
As a general principle films that are screened for critics the night before their release (as R.I.P.D. was) tend to be, shall we say, terrible. However, as someone who attempts to not unfairly malign a piece of cinema before it begins to flicker onto the silve...
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With A Little Help from Our Friends
Every week With A Little Help From Our Friends dedicates time highlighting 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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We begin with reminding a...
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A Letter To Adam Sandler and ‘Grown Ups 2’
There's little point in this publication producing yet another evisceration of yet another heinous Adam Sandler production. Grown Ups 2 is an offensively unfunny, abhorrent mess of a motion picture that reminds us to cherish the comedies that make us laugh. Bu...
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A Discussion with Film Critic and Editor of The Dissolve, Scott Tobias
The Dissolve, a film focused website produced by Pitchfork Media, will go live sometime tomorrow. When it does, Scott Tobias will serve as the editor of the highly anticipated Chicago-based publication. Last week Movie Mezzanine sat down and spoke with him abo...
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History of Film: The Best Movies of the 1980s
No need to elongate this latest entry into our History of Film feature by reiterating the fact that this sort of ranking of art is arbitrary. We all know it is, and continue to indulge in this guilty pleasure-like exercise anyway. Below are ballots collected f...
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The Results: The 10 Best Movies of the 1990s
For those keeping track, it's been more than three months since Movie Mezzanine asked all of you to rattle off your ten favorite films from the 1990s. The onus is on this editor-in-chief as to why the results of the poll weren't publisher sooner.
When it wa...
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