About Tara McNamara

As a critic, journalist, and digital content creator, Tara loves watching movies -- but more than that, she loves spurring audiences to think about movies. Tara is a frequent contributor to both print and TV outlets, including Entertainment Tonight, Inside Edition, The Insider, CNN, HLN, MSNBC, SiriusXM, Variety, Fandango, The Huffington Post, and USA Today. She has appeared as the Fandango Film Mom, co-hosted the digital series "Mom’s Movie Minute," and had recurring segments on Today and The Insider. Her film journalism career began in 2002, while she was working as a VJ and news anchor for Country Music Television. Tara and her son, then 9 years old, spent hours devouring classic movies together, igniting a passion for films that inspired them to create KidsPickFlicks, a website where kids of all ages could send in their own movie reviews. Tara believed that encouraging kids to share their opinions on movies would teach them to think critically about the messages they were receiving. She and her son ran the site for a decade, resulting in unparalleled insight into kids' cinematic tastes. Tara continues to make movies a family affair, now working with her other two children to provide GIF-length visual movie reviews via @ZeroWordReview on Instagram. She has projects in the works about why we love '80s movies, why some of their messages are so messed up, and how they affected a generation (check out www.80sMovieGuide.com for more!).