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At the Movies: ‘Greta’: So Close, Yet So Far

By Megan Bianco Greta is one of the very few Hollywood movies for which French cinema royalty Isabelle Huppert crossed overseas. Huppert is by far one…

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A Short Valentine’s Day Tale: San Juan Local Wins Third Place in Contest for Film About Love

By Megan Bianco, The Capistrano Dispatch The holiday of Valentine’s Day can mean a lot of different things for different people. For couples, it’s an…

Photo by Melinda Sue Gordon. © 2017 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation All Rights Reserved

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At the Movies: Who Won the ‘Battle of the Sexes’?

By Megan Bianco One year after winning “Best Actress” at the Academy Awards for the light-hearted musical La La Land, Emma Stone is back on screen…

The Beguiled. Photo: Courtesy of Focus Features

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At the Movies: Coppola Leaves Her Mark on ‘The Beguiled’

By Megan Bianco Eighteen years ago, Sofia Coppola made her mark in Hollywood with the sleeper hit The Virgin Suicides and then flew to mega success with…

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At the Movies: Brit War Film is ‘Their Finest’

By Megan Bianco There have been more movies and TV series set in World War II than any other war, and it’s because it is…

Mckenna Grace as “Mary Adler” and Chris Evans as “Frank Adler” in the film GIFTED. Photo by Wilson Webb. © 2017 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation All Rights Reserved.

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At the Movies: Evans’ Latest is Barely ‘Gifted’

By Megan Bianco Chris Evans is known as Captain America to everyone the same way Christopher Reeve was known as Superman. Evans is an iconic…

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At the Movies: ‘Song to Song’ Finds a Melody for Malick Fans

By Megan Bianco When did Terrence Malick go from artistic, independent filmmaker with a way with words and an eye for beautiful cinematography, to a…

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At the Movies: ‘Before I Fall’ is a Teen Repeat

By Megan Bianco Teen movies, like musicals and romantic comedies, are not as hot of a commodity in Hollywood as they used to be. And…

Jeremy Renner as Ian Donnelly and Amy Adams as Louise Banks in “Arrival” by Paramount Pictures

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At the Movies: Hollywood is Not Just ‘La La Land’

By Megan Bianco In what was quite possibly the most unexpected, madcap incident to ever happen at the Academy Awards, presenters Warren Beatty and Faye…

Denzel Washington plays Troy Maxson and Viola Davis plays Rose Maxson in Fences. Photo: Courtesy Paramount Pictures

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At the Movies: Washington and Davis Rebuild ‘Fences’

By Megan Bianco Denzel Washington, much like his Philadelphia (1993) co-star Tom Hanks, is beloved by American audiences, and he is one of the last…

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Developing a Love of Photography

San Juan Photo & Digital owners see influx in film processing By Allison Jarrell For almost 30 years, Diana and Scott Schmitt have been documenting…

(L to R): Joel Edgerton as Lucas, Michael Shannon as Roy, Jaeden Lieberher as Alton and Kirsten Dunst as Sarah in the sci-fi thriller Midnight Special. Photo: Warner Bros.

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At the Movies: ‘Midnight Special’ for Cinema Fans

By Megan Bianco Riding off the hype 10 Cloverfield Lane brought sci-fi thriller fans two weekends ago, Jeff Nichols gives us his own atmospheric, ambient…

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