The Mezzanine's View

The 1930s and 40s were a great time for film noir.  This genre basically dealt with hardboiled men living in corrupt times and places, often...

CGI is, above all else, a tool.  Overuse it, or use it the wrong way, and it can affect your movie in only a negative way.  Use it correctly...

Writer/director Cameron Crowe has a long, personal history with Rolling Stone magazine.  He worked there as a teenager before deciding to s...

Once upon a time, back in the 80s, movie producers could make an R-rated comedy.  At some point, film comedies became a lot more castrated, ...

In 1995, the concept of a feature-length computer-animated feature was probably about as likely to audiences as a feature-length hand-drawn ...

In my last entry, I mentioned how Marvel Films required studios that bought the film rights to various characters to continue making movies ...

Marvel Comics slowly worked its way into the film world.  While superheroes had appeared in the movies for many years, most were limited by ...