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‘Nothing Compares’ Film Review: Heartbreaking Sinead O’Connor Documentary Is Sadly Timely
By Steve Pond | January 21, 2022 @ 6:45 PMSundance 2022: Kathryn Ferguson paints a strong portrait of O’Connor’s initial rise and fall, but leaves out her long, curious second act
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How Andrew Garfield Went From Jonathan Larson to Jim Bakker to Spider-Man in One Crazy Year
By Steve Pond | January 21, 2022 @ 11:45 AMTheWrap magazine: ”It was a very mystical, profound thing, a kind of storytelling ritual of grief and even gratitude,“ says Garfield of his role in ”tick, tick…BOOM!“
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Guillermo del Toro on ‘Nightmare Alley’: No Monsters, No Problem
By Steve Pond | January 21, 2022 @ 6:53 AMTheWrap magazine: ”In my movies, the real monster is man, and it was about time to try it without any fantastical elements,“ says the director
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How Oscar Voters Could Make the Best Picture Category Even Weirder This Year
By Steve Pond | January 21, 2022 @ 6:30 AMExpanding the category to 10 nominees could increase variety, but only if voters take advantage of the opportunity they’ve been given
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‘When You Finish Saving the World’ Film Review: Jesse Eisenberg’s Indie Drama Wants You to Cringe
By Steve Pond | January 20, 2022 @ 6:10 PMSundance 2022: Eisenberg’s understated directorial debut stars Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard as a mother and son who just can’t communicate
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‘My Sunny Maad': Making an Animated Film That Doesn’t Feel Like Animation
By Steve Pond | January 20, 2022 @ 11:30 AMTheWrap magazine: “I wanted to make a film where people would forget it’s animated,” says Czech director Michaela Pavlatova
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Pedro Almodovar and Penelope Cruz on Pain, Friendship and Sexy Mothers
By Steve Pond | January 20, 2022 @ 8:56 AMTheWrap magazine: “When Penélope arrived in the Spanish cinema, let’s just say that housewives and mothers became much more attractive,” says Almodovar
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Shakespeare Shares Scripter Award Nomination With Joel Coen for ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’
By Steve Pond | January 19, 2022 @ 10:00 AMThe Bard finally gets recognition for Hollywood awards
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‘Dune,’ ‘Encanto,’ ‘Loki’ Top Visual Effects Society Award Nominations
By Steve Pond | January 18, 2022 @ 8:00 AMOther films with multiple nominations include ”Spider-Man: No Way Home“ and ”Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings“
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‘The Morning Show’ Design Problem: Go Around the World Without Leaving L.A.
By Steve Pond | January 18, 2022 @ 7:47 AMTheWrap magazine: Production designer Nelson Coates had to stage scenes set in China, New York, New Orleans and Italy, all in Southern California
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The Hardest Costume Design Challenge on ‘Cyrano’ Had Nothing to Do With the Lead Character
By Steve Pond | January 17, 2022 @ 10:16 AMTheWrap magazine: ”They are the aliens of the 1700s,“ says costume designer Massimo Cantini Parrini of the characters that caused him ”a great deal of suffering“
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‘The Harder They Fall’ Wins Top Prize at African American Film Critics Association Awards
By Steve Pond | January 17, 2022 @ 7:30 AMJeymes Samuel’s Western wins four awards, and ”King Richard“ takes another four
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The Big Design Challenge for ‘Licorice Pizza': Find 1970s L.A. in the 2020s
By Steve Pond | January 14, 2022 @ 10:39 AMTheWrap magazine: ”We were looking for pockets where people hadn’t demolished their ranch houses to build white modern monstrosities,“ production designer Florencia Martin says
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‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Finally Busts Into the Oscar Voters’ Screening Room
By Steve Pond | January 14, 2022 @ 7:15 AMAnd here are the 150-plus other films available to Academy members as nomination voting approaches
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How ‘The French Dispatch’ Designer Created Wes Anderson’s New World
By Steve Pond | January 12, 2022 @ 3:08 PMTheWrap magazine: ”My first reaction was sort of a slight panic,“ production designer Adam Stockhausen says of the sheer number of designs he needed to create