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…
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:…
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…
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…
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…
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,”…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
