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Personal Writing as Professional Empathy: On David Carr
The hardest thing about writing nonfiction is being a decent human being. For critics—who are paid to give their opinions on stuff—this seems even trickier. It’s a den of temptation for all of us who are secret egomaniacs: "Sure, we have something true to say ...
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Trailer for Upcoming Drama, “A Reason”
The good people at Risberg Schilling Productions have offered Movie Mezzanine an exclusive trailer to their upcoming film, A Reason.
Directed by Dominique Schilling, the familial drama will play at a theater near you in the new year. The movie stars Ha...
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Weekend Box Office: Hobbits and Hairdos
Christmas is almost upon us, and so the big movies are beginning to roll out in hopes of capturing that Christmas money. And to no one's surprise, considering that its director has released seven of his last eight movies on this weekend and six of them were in...
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LVFCS Goes for “Birdman” Down the Line
Boyhood has swept a majority of critics awards this last week, but today the Las Vegas Film Critics Society put their chips behind Fox Searchlight's Birdman, awarding the film seven awards for best picture, best director, best actor, best screenplay, cinematog...
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Christmas is Ruined: Sony Pulls “The Interview ” From Christmas Release Date
One of the things I was most looking forward to this Christmas was going to the movies. The Interview was going to be one of the movies I saw that day, but Sony has just decided to pull the movie from its release date following several theater chains deciding ...
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Weekend Box Office: White “Exodus”
It was another fairly quiet December weekend at the box office, and another weekend when there was only a couple of major releases. The fact that one of these major releases was simultaneously appealing to the Christian crowd while upsetting anyone who has the...
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Weekend Box Office: Meh
The next few weekends are filled to the brim with big-budget Christmas movies and Oscar hopefuls, as is tradition in December, and that usually means that at least one weekend in early December is dead as dead can be. That was the case this weekend. With the o...
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Bond 24 Officially Titled ‘Spectre’
The press conference for the new James Bond film went over just as well as movie fans anticipated. After the series regulars were announced (Daniel Craig, Naomie Harris, Ben Wishaw and Ralph Fiennes are all returning) newcomers Christoph Waltz, Monica Bellucci...
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Jake Gyllenhaal Can Lift in First “Southpaw” Image, Bro
Jake Gyllenhaal is on a roll. We got a terrific performance in End of Watch, saw him pull off double duty with Enemy, gave my favorite performance of last year in Prisoners, and repeated with what will likely be my favorite performance as Lou Bloom in Nightcra...
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Edgar Wright Shares His Favorite Flicks of 2014
The New York Film Critic's Circle released their picks for the best films of 2014 this morning, but I'm going to focus on the selections from the director of Shaun of the Dead and The World's End instead. Edgar Wright sat down with Esquire's Emily Zemler to di...
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