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At the Movies: 2020 Screen Actors Guild Award

By Megan Bianco This month’s Screen Actors Guild awards remind us why they are still the smoothest-running televised awards show out there. No host and…

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At the Movies: The Little Stranger Arrives Early

By Megan Bianco One whole month before Halloween season begins and we have a release of a retro, atmospheric horror-drama: The Little Stranger. Gothic horror…

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At the Movies: ‘On Chesil Beach’ Has Too Much Sap

By Megan Bianco Saoirse Ronan is rightly considered one of the best actresses of her generation—from her impressive skills in mimicking dialects to being able…

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At the Movies: ‘Disobedience’ Obeys Keys to Successful Filmmaking

By Megan Bianco By now we can easily say same-sex romances can find success in commercial film. It’s been 13 years since Brokeback Mountain became…

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At the Movies: Is Spielberg Too Much for ‘Ready Player One’?

At the Movies: Is Spielberg Too Much for ‘Ready Player One’? By Megan Bianco It’s the new-age question everyone has been pondering this past decade:…

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At the Movies: Dogs Rule in Anderson’s ‘Isle’

By Megan Bianco One of the most successful independent filmmakers in modern Hollywood cinema is Wes Anderson. From instant cult classics like Bottle Rocket (1996),…

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At the Movies: ‘Captain America: Civil War’ Fights to Success

By Megan Bianco The most anticipated blockbuster of the summer is already here, and it’s as good as a big budget action flick can be….

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At the Movies: Re-plan ‘Mother’s Day’

By Megan Bianco By now it should be pretty clear how the Garry Marshall rom-com formula works. And I’m not talking about his classics—good ones…

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At the Movies: ‘Dawn of Justice’ and Backlash

By Megan Bianco For years people have contemplated when the fad of two to three superhero movies released yearly will become tiring and passé. Now,…

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At the Movies: Rough Sailing for ‘In the Heart of the Sea’

By Megan Bianco If there is one actor who seems to have been fated with misfortune throughout 2015, it would have to be Thor star…

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At the Movies: ‘The Intern’ Lacks Real Experience

By Megan Bianco For the last couple of years, Hollywood has made use of the trope along the lines of “old people being out of…

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At the Movies: For Romance and Drama Stay ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’

By Megan Bianco For a book written in 1874, the tone and morals of Thomas Hardy’s story, Far from the Madding Crowd, feel remarkably modern….

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At the Movies: In ‘Song One,’ Music is Star

By Megan Bianco A year ago at the Sundance Film Festival, the indie romance drama, Song One premiered. What originally began as a music-centered project between…