Stories By Tim Molloy
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Movie News
Tangerine Tops Rotten Tomatoes’ List of Modern Christmas Classics
December 24, 2019Tangerine, Sean Baker’s 2015 film about transgender sex workers struggling through the holidays, tops Rotten Tomatoes’...
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Movie News
Queen and Slim: A Friendly Debate (Podcast)
December 21, 2019Now that we’ve had some time for the hot takes to cool, we spend the latest...
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Movie News
Watchmen: In Praise of High-Risk TV (Podcast)
December 19, 2019Watchmen complicatedly combined falling squid, horrifying racism, a glowing blue man, nuclear panic, fear of sexual...
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Movie News
How Two Popes Screenwriter Anthony McCarten Balances Heavy Themes and Humor
December 19, 2019Anthony McCarten has a big surprise on the very first page of his The Two Popes...
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Movie News
NightShift: Watch the Trailer for Yam Laranas’ Morgue Horror Story
December 12, 2019Writer-director Yam Laranas is a moviemaker’s moviemaker: A Hitchcock devotee from the Philippines who makes genre...
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Movie News
How Bombshell Writer Charles Randolph Cracked Roger Ailes’ Secret Society
December 12, 2019Charles Randolph, writer of the new Fox News sexual-harassment drama Bombshell, had a special insight into...
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Movie News
Hotel Mumbai Director Anthony Maras Tells Us About Its Long Journey (Podcast)
December 2, 2019Hotel Mumbai, the feature debut from Australian writer-director Anthony Maras, deserved more attention when it premiered...
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Movie News
Bret Easton Ellis Reviews Likely Oscar Contenders
December 2, 2019Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho and most recently the memoir White, has become one...
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Movie News
The Mandalorian Is on a Mission to Unite the Best and Worst Parts of Star Wars
November 29, 2019The Mandalorian signaled how sweepingly it plans to embrace the entire Star Wars universe when it...
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Movie News
Daniel Kaluuya Tells Us Why Queen & Slim is More Like Thelma & Louise Than Bonnie and Clyde
November 27, 2019Daniel Kaluuya’s new film Queen & Slim has often been described as a “black Bonnie and Clyde” story,...
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Movie News
How Goodfellas’ Tracking Shot Went Comically Wrong
November 26, 2019The Goodfellas tracking shot that takes us into the Copacabana nightclub and shows us what a...
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Movie News
What Does ‘I Heard You Paint Houses’ Mean in The Irishman?:
November 25, 2019You may ask yourself, moments into The Irishman: What does “I heard you paint houses” mean? The curious...
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Movie News
Mickey and the Bear’s Camila Morrone, James Badge Dale and Annabelle Attanasio on the Power of Persistence
November 25, 2019Camila Morrone, the star of Annabelle Attanasio’s debut feature, Mickey and the Bear, got the job...
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Movie News
Why Mister Rogers Isn’t the Main Character in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
November 23, 2019Mr. Rogers couldn’t be the lead character in a A Beautiful Day in The Neighborhood, in...
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Interviews
Mr. Rogers’ Widow Didn’t Want a Saintly Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Portrayal of Her Husband
November 22, 2019Families of public figures sometimes object to movies that portray their loved one as anything but...
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Movie News
Clint Eastwood Gets Standing Ovation at Richard Jewell Premiere
November 21, 2019Clint Eastwood was greeted with a standing ovation Wednesday night as he introduced his new film...
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Movie News
Daniel Kaluuya Explains How Get Out Led Him Directly to Queen & Slim
November 18, 2019Queen & Slim star Daniel Kaluuya leaned of the role because he met the film’s writer,...
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Movie News
What Is Watchmen Saying About Race in America?
November 17, 2019HBO’s Watchmen touches on reparations, racist vigilantism, and the destruction, 100 years ago, of the African-American business mecca...
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Movie News
5 Mandalorian Easter Eggs That Call Back the Infamous Star Wars Holiday Special
November 15, 2019The Mandalorian is proud of its roots—so much so that several Mandalorian Easter eggs reference The...
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Movie News
How Waves Director Trey Edward Shults ‘Cheated’ for His Film
November 15, 2019Waves writer-director Trey Edward Shults says he employed a trick familiar to anyone who’s ever had...
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Movie News
Read Queen & Slim Creators Lena Waithe and Melina Matsoukas’ Introduction to Their ‘Love Letter to Blackness’
November 15, 2019Queen & Slim writer Lena Waithe and director Melina Matsoukas introduced the film at its worldwide...
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Movie News
Robert De Niro on The Irishman’s Credibility: ‘I Wasn’t Getting Conned’
November 14, 2019Robert De Niro says he welcomes disagreement about whether The Irishman is accurate, but wasn’t “conned”...
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Movie News
Greedo Scene Changed Again, Dear God
November 12, 2019Greedo shot first… maybe? Star Wars fans who celebrated Tuesday’s arrival of Disney+ by watching the...
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Screenwriting
Thanos Is the Hero of Avengers: Endgame and Avengers: Infinity War, Films’ Writers Say
November 10, 2019Thanos is the hero of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, the films’ screenwriters, Stephen McFeely...
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