Posts by Wesley Morris

  • After Normal

    ‘Looking’ is essentially a half-hour dramatic sitcom about three friends — Patrick, Agustín, and Dom — in their late twenties to very early forties in San Francisco. One’s white, one’s Latino, and one’s got a mustache. They’re all gay. The show airs Sundays on HBO, after ‘Girls,’ and its structure should be familiar to anyone who’s turned on a television since the advent of ‘Mary Tyler Moore.’

  • Do You Like Prince Movies?

    Alex and Wesley discuss an outrageous European rumor about Beyonce and the career of the even more outrageous European director Paul Verhoeven.

  • (Re)Made for Love

    You may love love stories. Hollywood loves remakes.

  • Do You Like Prince Movies?

    This week Alex and Wesley disagree over ‘The Lego Movie’ and wonder whether ‘True Detective’ is just a lot of hot swamp air.

  • Sportstorialist: Gay, Giddy Sochi

    The Gay Games don’t start until August, but the Winter Olympics don’t know that, and the irony is touching. Russia’s government has criminalized “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations,” and yet the quilted-rainbow-rash ski parkas on the volunteers at the Sochi Games would move any LGBT group to approve of the statement.

  • Those Hollywood Dumpuary Blues

    One great doc can’t stop the fall of ‘Monuments Men’ or the cynicism of ‘The Lego Movie.’

  • Do You Like Prince Movies?

    This week Alex and Wesley get sad twice, first in assessing the legacy of Philip Seymour Hoffman, and then in sifting through the Woody Allen scandal.

  • Philip Seymour Hoffman: An Artistic Legacy

    Was he the greatest actor of his generation?

  • Dumpuary Movie Report: The Naked Awfulness of ‘That Awkward Moment,’ ‘Ride Along,’ and ‘Labor Day’

    When bad movies end with a blooper reel, you’re supposed to think This is how much worse it could have been! But really, blooper reels add insult to injury.

  • Wesley Morris and Alex Pappademas

    Wesley and Alex discuss the 2014 Grammys, including Macklemore, Lorde, and the challenge of marrying 33 couples at an awards show.

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