Stories By Tim Molloy
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Movie News
Are Memes Magic? You Can’t Kill Meme Explores Whether Chaos Magic Got Trump Elected
August 24, 2021The new documentary You Can’t Kill Meme, by director Hayley Garrigus, explains the complicated and unconvincing...
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Festivals
Baby Money Is a High-Stakes Home-Invasion Thriller, Full of Lessons for Scrappy Filmmakers
August 23, 2021Remember that Jean-Luc Godard quote that he didn’t exactly say? “All you need for a movie...
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The Rundown
‘Red Flag Movies’; Spider-Man Leak; ScarJo ‘Missile Crisis’; Succession: October
August 23, 2021Spider-Man: No Way Home trailer leaks; Succession is back in two months; Scarlett Johansson-related hyperbole. Plus:...
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Podcasts
Dan Delgado Tells the Stories of Those Who Tried and Failed to Make Great Films
August 22, 2021With The Industry podcast, Dan Delgado tells stories of Hollywood’s weirdest decisions. He has a special...
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The Rundown
R.I.P. Sonny Chiba; So Much Acid; Danny DeVito Seems Cool
August 20, 2021R.I.P. to Sonny Chiba; Michael Shannon on pretending to do acid, and other stars on actually...
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The Rundown
What ‘Volumetric Capture’ Is; AMC Stock Up 1,500%; This One’s for the Nerds
August 19, 2021How internet fun-havers made AMC stock soar; lots of stuff to excite Marvel people; what “volumetric...
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Movie News
Blue_Whale Is a Grimly Effective Russian Teenage-Suicide Screenlife Horror Film
August 18, 2021Blue_Whale is so dark and depraved that I wondered at times if its creators were just...
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The Rundown
A Single-Shot Time-Travel Masterpiece; Neill Blompkamp’s Dire Predictions; No ’90s Distribution
August 18, 2021District 9 director Neill Blomkamp is back with a new film and not much hope for humankind;...
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Festivals
Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes Is Like 1917 Crossed With Tenet — But Cheaper and More Fun
August 17, 2021I should start this piece on Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes, part of Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival,...
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Movie News
Demonic Director Neill Blomkamp and In the Earth Director Ben Wheatley on Humanity’s ‘Really Dangerous Path’
August 17, 2021There was a period early in the pandemic when directors Neill Blomkamp and Ben Wheatley wondered...
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The Rundown
A Star Wars Anime; Suicide Squad Exposed; Finish Your Thing
August 17, 2021A Star Wars anime looks spectacular; The Suicide Squad and the destruction of plot armor; some...
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Movie News
The Suicide Squad and the Destruction of Plot Armor
August 16, 2021(Spoiler warning: The following contains very general spoilers about The Suicide Squad, written and directed by James...
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Movie News
Who Can Tell What Story?; Bill Maher on Matt Damon; Don’t Take the Bait
August 16, 2021Bill Maher defends Matt Damon, Johnny Depp feels ostracized, who can tell what story, and some...
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Movie News
How CODA Writer-Director Siân Heder Tells Stories of Cultures She Doesn’t Belong To
August 13, 2021When CODA writer-director Siân Heder used to write for the Netflix prison drama Orange Is the...
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Podcasts
Beckett Director Ferdinando Cito Filomarino on Dodging Cliches in the John David Washington Thriller
August 13, 2021With apologies to Liam Neeson in Taken, the title character of the new Netflix thriller Beckett, played...
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Movie News
Louisiana Film Prize Names 20 Made-in-Louisiana Short Film Finalists
August 13, 2021The 2021 Louisiana Film Prize, which is celebrating its 10th year of recognizing short films shot...
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The Rundown
Ethan Hawke in the MCU; Zach Braff’s Directing Advice From Alexander Payne; Inside CODA and Beckett
August 13, 2021How a fateful Brooklyn coffee shop meeting pulled Ethan Hawke into the Marvel Cinematic Universe; we...
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The Rundown
Shia LaBeouf as a Saint; CODA: Good; Oklahoma Film Credits; Long Hours Are a Thing
August 12, 2021Shia LaBeouf will play a saint for Abel Ferrara; Hollywood’s long-hours problem; Oklahoma offers $30 million...
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The Rundown
What Cinema Is For; Malice at the Palace; Titane Comes to NYC
August 11, 2021Dissecting the legendary “Malice at the Palace” brawl; the eye-popping Cannes winner Titane steers its way...
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Movie News
Here’s Jennifer Hudson as Aretha Franklin Singing ‘Think’ (Video)
August 10, 2021If you’re wondering if the music will be good in the Aretha Franklin biopic Respect, starring...
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The Rundown
Bam v. Jackass; Kilmer v. Batsuit; an Addams Family Traffic Reunion
August 10, 2021Bam Margera sues his old friends from Jackass; Val Kilmer shares some complaints about the Batsuit;...
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Movie News
Down With the King Is for Everyone Who Loves Film, Hip-Hop and the Great Outdoors
August 9, 2021Down with the King tells the story of a very successful rapper named Money Merc (real-life rapper...
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The Rundown
A Bitchin’ Rick James Story; Suicide Squad Box Office; Shooting a Crowd Scene During Covid
August 9, 2021How the Cannes film Down With the King shot a huge crowd scene under pandemic protocols;...
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The Rundown
Clint Eastwood Cries Macho; an A.I. Duran Duran Video; Some Predictions
August 6, 2021The trailer for Cry Macho, directed by and starring the great Clint Eastwood; Duran Duran is still...
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