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All posts by Sam Fragoso
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With today marking the ha...
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‘White House Down’ is Quality Summer Trash
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them. - Pauline Kael
The above quote from endlessly influential film critic Pauline Kael perfectly summates White House Down, Roland Emmeric...
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‘The Heat’
The Heat is a mostly unpleasant film to watch, and an even worse film to review. Deserving neither a love letter nor an autopsy, Paul Feig's fifth directorial feature is as aggressively average a movie as I've seen in recent memory.
In the vein of '80s acti...
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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.
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Richard Matheson, the creator of I Am Legend died today. Here's Drew McWe...
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Film Critic of the Week: Matt Patches
Finding a voice in writing - especially in the rapidly expanding field of film criticism - is a difficult task completed only by the most gifted of journalists. Striking the perfect chord between conversational and intellectual, Matt Patches is one of the few ...
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Remembering Roger Ebert on His Birthday
If Roger Ebert were alive today he would be celebrating four decades of gainful employment at the Chicago Sun-Times, a 21 year marriage with the lovely Chaz Ebert, and most importantly, his 71st birthday. Unfortunately as we all know Ebert died this past April...
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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.
For your reading enjoyment …
Unfortunately Nicolas Winding Refn's latest film Only God Forgives has re...
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‘The Bling Ring’
Based on the events written in a Vanity Fair article entitled “The Suspects Wore Louboutins,” Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring is an amplified portrait of a culture consumed by vanity and superficiality. However, contrary to Spring Breakers, Coppola’s fifth film...
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A Discussion with ‘Berberian Sound Studio’ Director Peter Strickland
Tomorrow Berberian Sound Studio, which chronicles the mental unraveling of a British sound mixer working on an Italian horror film, will be released in theaters and on VOD.
Last week Movie Mezzanine was graciously granted an interview with the director of t...
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‘This Is The End’
To much surprise, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s directorial debut – the latter guilty of penning last year’s most abhorrent comedic war crime The Watch – is a surprisingly fresh, funny, and daring comedic excursion with more on its mind that vulgarity (though...
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