All posts by Tim Molloy
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Who Is Frank Sheeran Talking to in The Irishman?
The Irishman is framed by Robert De Niro’s character, Frank Sheeran, talking directly to the camera, confessing a life’s worth of sins. But who is...
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5 Frank Sheeran Stories The Irishman Left Out
Frank Sheeran tells many astonishing stories in The Irishman, taken from I Heard You Paint Houses, the book that provides the source material for the...
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Is The Irishman’s Opening Scene a Goodfellas Callback?
(Spoiler alert: No The Irishman plot points are revealed here, but don’t read this if you don’t want to know anything about the film, including...
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Is Maura Tierney’s Character in The Report Based on the Same CIA Agent Who Inspired Jessica Chastain’s Character in Zero Dark Thirty?
The Report, now streaming on Amazon Prime, includes a morally compromised CIA agent played by Maura Tierney who bears little resemblance to the whip-smart, courageous...
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8 The Irishman Inside Jokes and Callbacks, From David Ferrie to Don Rickles
The Irishman may provide Martin Scorsese’s final commentary on decades of gangster films, including his own. Anyone who remembers the parting shot of a rat...
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Hotel Mumbai Director Anthony Maras Tells Us About Its Long Journey (Podcast)
Hotel Mumbai, the feature debut from Australian writer-director Anthony Maras, deserved more attention when it premiered in the United States earlier this year. But its...
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Bret Easton Ellis Reviews Likely Oscar Contenders
Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho and most recently the memoir White, has become one of our most interesting film critics: A moviemaker who...
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Who Was Jimmy Hoffa?: Things To Know Before You See The Irishman
It’s possible to see The Irishman without having a clue who Jimmy Hoffa was. The film sets out to solve the mystery of who killed...
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4 Times Al Pacino and Robert De Niro Were Up for the Same Role
The Irishman unites Robert De Niro and Al Pacino for only the fourth time onscreen. But given their similar ages and backgrounds—and long record of...
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The Mandalorian Is on a Mission to Unite the Best and Worst Parts of Star Wars
The Mandalorian signaled how sweepingly it plans to embrace the entire Star Wars universe when it packed its very first episode with references to The...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Taylor Russell on Waves and Why She’s OK With Being an Adult Who Plays High School Students
In director Trey Edward Shults’ Waves, Taylor Russell plays the younger sister of Kelvin Harrison Jr., even though she’s five days older than him in real life. In fact,...
Inside the Issue: Directing
Rob Zombie: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Rob Zombie still can’t let go of some of his past off-screen nightmares. “After I finished Halloween II, I was so beat up by the process that I hated...
Inside the Issue: How To
Edward Norton Walks Us Through Every Part of Making Motherless Brooklyn
Edward Norton is the best possible person to explain each stage of the moviemaking process for his new drama Motherless Brooklyn—he’s the film’s writer, director and lead actor. For...