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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 highlighting the best pieces of writing on film and television published around the Internet.
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It was only a matter of time (a week to be exact) until Matt Patches boun...
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Film Critic of the Week: Carrie Rickey
For over 25 years Carrie Rickey served as the residential film critic for The Philadelphia Inquirer. At the moment she opines about movies for various outlets alongside freelancing at the local NPR station in Philadelphia. Her writing, which is steeped in know...
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‘The East’
This review of The East originally appeared at The Film Stage during the Sundance film festival.
Serving as an engaging antithesis to last year’s Sound of My Voice (a cryptic piece of filmmaking that left a myriad of questions unanswered), Zal Batmanglij’s...
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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 …
Here's a great piece by Eric D. Snider on filmakers and the respect we sh...
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‘Fast & Furious 6’
Lunacy is the name of the game for the Fast & Furious franchise. It always has been and it always will be. Fast & Furious 6 rises to new incongruous, downright bizarre heights—more endless explosions, more tracking shots of women's behinds, more dour d...
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Film Critic Of The Week: Scott Renshaw
For over 20 years Scott Renshaw has effectively fooled people into thinking he knows something about movies. Or at least that's what he tells people. So I started reading Mr. Renshaw, and sure enough he began to fool me too. Chief film critic of Salt Lake City...
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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 …
After 8-years of making us cry through uproarious comedy, Bill Hader is f...
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Welcome To Movie Mezzanine 2.0
Dear Readers of Movie Mezzanine,
As you probably have noticed, Movie Mezzanine looks a bit different this morning. That's because today marks the grand opening of Movie Mezzanine 2.0 - completely redesigned and ready to move forward as an online publication...
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Film Critic of the Week: Matt Zoller Seitz
Matt Zoller Seitz is the founder of Press Play (IndieWire) and The House Next Door (Slant Magazine), a contributor to RogerEbert.com, a TV critic for New York Magazine, and the author of the upcoming book “The Wes Anderson Collection.”
His detailed analyses...
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‘The Great Gatsby’
Baz Luhrmann’s fast and loose cinematic adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterful 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby, is, in the words of fellow Golden Age writer Ernest Hemingway, “a visual feast” to be marveled.
Reimagining The Great Gatsby, one of the most...
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