Stories By Tim Molloy
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Movie News
Jon Ossoff Plays Down ‘Filmmaker’ Career, Prefers to Be Called ‘Investigative Journalist’
January 6, 2021Jon Ossoff, whose election to the U.S. Senate in Georgia gave Democrats control of Congress, was...
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Movie News
Rundown: Jon Ossoff Used to Make Movies; Jordan Peele on Quitting Acting; How to Start a Film Festival
January 6, 2021In today’s Movie News Rundown: Jon Ossoff was a moviemaker before his run for Senate in...
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Movie News
Film Festivals Weren’t Meeting Their Needs. So They Started One
January 5, 2021A few years ago, filmmakers Jess Jacklin and Charles Beale felt like the film festival circuit...
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Movie News
Rundown: Fauci’s Theater Prediction; Elon Musk, Film Producer; Seeing WandaVision
January 5, 2021In today’s Movie News Rundown: The Tanya Roberts situation; Dr. Fauci tells us when we can...
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Movie News
Most Anticipated 2021 Movies; Sweden Gets Weird; What Film Festivals Want
January 4, 2021In today’s Movie News Rundown: Paul Thomas Anderson, Martin Scorsese and David O. Russell will all...
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What Film Festivals Want
What Film Festivals Want: Festivals Tell Us Their Ideal Submissions and Pet Peeves
January 1, 2021What do film festivals want from moviemakers submitting films? The fact that you’re asking that question...
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December Rundown
Rundown: How’d Those 2020 Predictions Work Out?
December 31, 2020In today’s Movie News Rundown: 2020 by the terrible numbers, and some predictions from this time...
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Movie News
Wonder Woman Director Patty Jenkins Says DC Made Her Add CGI-Heavy Climax: ‘It Was Not Supposed to Be’
December 30, 2020Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins says she originally didn’t want the climactic, CGI-heavy fight between Wonder...
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December Rundown
Rundown: Patty Jenkins’ Punk Roots; Malick on iPhone; R.I.P. Joe Clark
December 30, 2020In today’s Movie News Rundown: Patty Jenkins describes the 1980s Kansas punk scene that informs her...
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December Rundown
The Rundown: Contagion ‘Sequel’; Soderbergh Describes Crocodile Dundee Dream; Time to Pause?
December 29, 2020In today’s Movie News Rundown: L.A. film productions are asked to pause; Steven Soderbergh describes his...
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Movie News
How The Orange Years Directors Made Their Nickelodeon Doc Without Money, Connections, or Getting Slimed
December 29, 2020The Orange Years co-directors Scott Barber and Adam Sweeney grew up together in the late ’80s...
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Movie News
Movies That Predicted 2020 — Besides Contagion
December 28, 2020No one could have predicted 2020… except for Hollywood. As everyone on earth noted earlier this...
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December Rundown
Rundown: Wonder Woman 3 Greenlit; Movies Turn 125; Nickelodeon’s Origin Story
December 28, 2020In today’s Movie News Rundown: The success of Wonder Woman 1984 — even in theaters —...
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Movie News
How ‘Girl in Nightclub’ and ‘Girl Who Gets Murdered’ Made Promising Young Woman
December 24, 2020Carey Mulligan, star of the explosive Promising Young Woman, first met the film’s writer-director Emerald Fennell...
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December Rundown
The Rundown: Minari Mess; Errol Morris’ Love, a Word from Ethan Hawke
December 23, 2020In today’s Movie News Rundown: The Golden Globes’ baffling handling of Minari; Errol Morris falls for...
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Podcasts
Errol Morris’ My Psychedelic Love Story: Joanna Harcourt-Smith and the Art of Documentary Performance
December 22, 2020Joanna Harcourt-Smith, the focus of the new Errol Morris documentary My Psychedelic Love Story, connects countless interesting...
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Movie News
Coming 2 America Trailer: ‘You Have a Son!’
December 22, 2020The Coming 2 America trailer is here, more than 30 years after Coming to America, and...
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Movie News
Small Theaters Get Billions in Stimulus Relief; Big Chains Get Nothing
December 22, 2020Reel Pizza Cinerama, a charming two-screen theater in Bar Harbor, Maine, that serves up tasty pizza...
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December Rundown
Rundown: Movies That Saw 2020 Coming; Bailout Details; Lion for Sale; Smoking and Bonfires
December 22, 2020In today’s Movie News: The movies that predicted this not-great year; what the $900 billion bailout...
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Movie News
Peter Jackson Beatles Doc Get Back Finds the Lads Raw and Punchy
December 21, 2020New scenes from the Peter Jackson Beatles documentary Get Back find the four lovable lads from...
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December Rundown
The Rundown: Theaters to Get Billions; Interview Hell; Peter Jackson’s Beatles Doc
December 21, 2020In today’s Movie News Rundown: Hope for small theaters, provocative critics name a five-part series “Best...
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Movie News
Small Axe, a 5-Part Series, Named Best Picture by LA Film Critics
December 20, 2020In a year that challenged our perceptions of what makes a movie a movie, the Los...
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Movie News
Theaters to Get Billions in Federal Stimulus Package
December 20, 2020The $900 billion stimulus deal reached in Congress on Sunday includes roughly $15 billion in aid...
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Movie News
Tenet Director Christopher Nolan Is OK With You Being Confused
December 18, 2020Tenet, the new Christopher Nolan movie finally out on VOD and Blu-Ray, is hard to follow. And...
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