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Megan Bianco

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GETTING OUT, Spotlight

At the Movies: Prepare Yourself for ‘Inherent Vice’

By Megan Bianco Since its festival debut last October, Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice has been getting many comparisons to Philip…

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At the Movies: Go ‘Wild’ with Reese

By Megan Bianco After the global acclaim and awards for Sean Penn’s Into the Wild (2007) and Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours (2010), it was only…

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At the Movies: ‘Mockingjay, Part 1’ Stretched, Somewhat Unsatisfying

By Megan Bianco The most underwhelming, yet still most successful opening weekend of the year goes to the third installment of the Hunger Games franchise:…

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At the Movies: “Lucy,” the Great and Powerful

By Megan Bianco Last year Scarlett Johansson starred as a seductive, man-eating alien in the indie hit Under the Skin and maintained all the knowledge…

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At the Movies: ‘Begin Again’ for Music Lovers of All Ages

By Megan Bianco After a decade as queen of on-screen period pieces, Keira Knightley is branching out and entering into the modern world these days….

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At the Movies: A Different Kind of ‘Night Moves’

By Megan Bianco In the middle of summer blockbuster season with films like Godzilla, X-Men and Maleficent topping the box office, independent filmmaker Kelly Reichardt’s…

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At the Movies: ‘The Double’ Is Worth a Look for Indie Fans

By Megan Bianco Four years after his directorial debut with the indie hit Submarine, U.K. comedian turned filmmaker Richard Ayoade is fast becoming one to…

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At the Movies: ‘Locke’ is All Alone

By Megan Bianco A new trend in the last year of movies has characters stuck in one location the entire film, trying to get out…

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At the Movies: ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’ Mesmerizes

By Megan Bianco In an era when the over-saturated vampire genre has been run into the ground—thanks to Twilight, “True Blood” and “The Vampire Diaries,”…

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At the Movies: Muppets Not Wanted

By Megan Bianco As noted in the opening number of the latest Muppets extravaganza, Muppets Most Wanted is the puppet group’s seventh feature film since…

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At the Movies: ‘Pompeii’ Erupts with Action

By Megan Bianco Every movie genre uses story tropes but none more so than the action-adventure films. In Paul W.S. Anderson’s latest extravaganza, Pompeii, there…

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At the Movies: ‘The Monuments Men’ Displays Plenty

By Megan Bianco Eight years ago, a fascinating documentary titled The Rape of Europa chronicled the work of a small platoon of historians and curators…

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At the Movies: Here’s Why It’s ‘The Past’

By Megan Bianco 2013 ended with France’s Blue is the Warmest Color and Italy’s The Great Beauty as the most acclaimed and popular foreign films…

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Award Season Escapism

Globe, SAG awards honor unlikely contenders By Megan Bianco It’s the same thing every year when the award shows start airing. Red carpet commenters ask,…

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At the Movies: ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’

By Megan Bianco Just when it seemed like 12 Years a Slave, Inside Llewyn Davis and Gravity were going to battle for Best Picture of…

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