Posts by Wesley Morris
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Sportstorialist: The Legacy of Marquette’s Untucked Uniforms
Retrospect tends to be clarifying. Take the 1970s. Things were better. Things were worse. You don’t want a return to oppression, lawlessness, or the denial of rights. But you do want the frissons, frills, and highlights. You want the breaking of bounds, the challenge of conventions. You want a return to even a loose symbol of transgression. One of those 1977 Marquette Warriors uniforms should do it — the edition in tablecloth white with blue piping that ran around the shoulders and neckline and, more spectacularly, around the shirt’s bottom. The players wore them untucked and, in doing so, caused a minor national stir on their way to an NCAA championship.
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Do You Like Prince Movies?
Wesley calls from a mall in Buenos Aires to talk about Wes Anderson’s problematic ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ and the problem-tastic season finale of HBO’s ‘True Detective.’
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Swan Songs: The Last Film of Hayao Miyazaki and the Death of Alain Resnais
Hayao Miyazaki has vowed that ‘The Wind Rises’ is his last film. It’s the movie of a ferocious animist and part-time surrealist who’s slipping away, leaving his body, moving on to some new ethereal place.
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Do You Like Prince Movies?
Dave Itzkoff talks to Alex and Wesley about ‘Mad as Hell,’ his new book about Sidney Lumet’s classic, ‘Network.’ Plus: Alex has a confession to make about the Oscars.
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Do You Like Prince Movies? Podcast: With Special Guest Dave Itzkoff
Dave Itzkoff talks to Alex and Wesley about ‘Mad As Hell,’ his new book about Sidney Lumet’s classic, ‘Network.’ Plus: Alex has a confession to make about the Oscars.
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Sportstorialist: LeBron James and the Meaning of the Mask
The mask was foremost a health and safety precaution — it’s made of carbon fiber and covers half his face. But it also felt like a moment of candor from a star who inspires equal parts awe and loathing: In donning a mask, he appeared to be removing one, too.
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Liam Neesons, Though!
Anyone planning to see ‘Non-Stop’ should probably just go see it. This is one of those near-perfect, peeled-onion, airplane-hijacking thrillers in which each removed layer brings you closer to a single happy tear. The level of ridiculousness is equal to the care put into making the ridiculousness possible.
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Do You Like Prince Movies?
In Part 2 of 2, Grantland’s Wesley Morris and Mark Harris choose their Oscar favorites for the Actor, Actress, Picture, and Director categories.
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The Democratic Brilliance of Harold Ramis
Whether you’re 5 or 45, if one of his movies comes on, you just stand before it transfixed: This is really good — it’s speaking to me. That was the democratic brilliance of Harold Ramis: He made adults feel young and kids feel wise.
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‘Pompeii’ Fizzles, But Is ‘3 Days to Kill’ the Start of the Costner Comeback?
In the months leading up to the release of ‘Titanic,’ you could sense people rooting for a disaster — not that the boat would sink, but that James Cameron would. Some people wanted a big, gassy mess that made you laugh because the acting was lousy, the effects looked cheap, and the story came straight from the back of cocktail napkin. What those people really wanted was ‘Pompeii,’ which is what would happen if a blockbuster ran out of Cameron and had to start using Cecil B. DeMeh.
