Tim Karan
Tim Karan is a writer and editor for Looper. An award-winning journalist, he began his career with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, where he received multiple Keystone Press Awards for news coverage and feature writing. He became a film and music critic for the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, New York, before moving on to become associate editor of Alternative Press magazine. He also hosted the popular AP&R Podcast, and oversaw editorial for the official Vans Warped Tour program. He later became senior editor for Diffuser, and has written for The A.V. Club, Newser, and Bleacher Report. He's interviewed Oscar winners, Grammy winners, and countless filmmakers and musicians throughout his career. A resident of Nashville, he's been called "the closest thing to Woody Allen to ever come out of Warped Tour nation."
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Stories By Tim Karan
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Captain America allies with Black Panther and his Wakandan soldiers in a new image from Avengers: Infinity War.
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Will the Baudelaire orphans ever catch a break on A Series of Unfortunate Events? Probably not this season.
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This past weekend's episode of The Walking Dead didn't exactly set the world on fire.
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Hellboy creator Mike Mignola said he's much more involved with the screenplay than he was for Guillermo del Toro's movies.
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Jack Quaid will star in the upcoming series The Boys, based on the comic by the co-creator of Preacher.
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Christopher Robin catches up with Winnie the Pooh's human friend long after their adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood.
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One of the most unbelievable stunts in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is very real.
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Netflix released the first full trailer for the reboot of the classic sci-fi series Lost in Space.
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Why don't movies like Thor: Ragnarok and Wonder Woman win Oscars? The Lonely Island want to know in this hilarious video.
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Take a look at 13 comic book-inspired posters with the titles for each episode from Jessica Jones season 2.
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The Librarians producer Mark A. Altman is developing a TV series based on the 1980 sci-fi comedy Galaxina.
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Netflix renewed the dark anthology series Black Mirror for a fifth season.
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The character posters for Solo: A Star Wars Story look an awful lot like album covers created by French artist Hachim Bahous.
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House of Cards will make big changes after cutting ties with star Kevin Spacey.
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Find out which movies and performers took home Oscars at the 2018 Academy Awards.
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The daughter of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman will be one of the new additions to the third season of Stranger Things.
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Priah Ferguson has been promoted to a series regular for the third season of Stranger Things.
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Keanu Reeves is the top choice for a 'new kind of vigilante superhero' movie coming from the directors of Avengers: Infinity War.
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We finally know the name of Westworld's feudal Japan-themed park, and it probably isn't what you were expecting.
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe will continue to expand at a rapid rate, even after the destructive events of Avengers 4.
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The upcoming Blu-ray release of The Last Jedi will feature 14 deleted scenes and we've got the lowdown on some of them.
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A batch of new photos offer intriguing looks at what's coming in the second season of Westworld.
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The trailer for Adult Swim's Ballmastrz: 9009 reveals a high-concept plot and some wild animation.
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Lupita Nyong'o and Danai Gurira are working on a TV adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's acclaimed novel Americanah.
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Things got pretty crazy in the season 1 finale of Westworld, but plenty of characters managed to survive the chaos.
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Chris Hemsworth is reportedly in early talks to take the Men in Black franchise in a new direction.
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It only took two weeks for Black Panther to surpass what Wonder Woman made in the U.S. during its entire theatrical run.