Posts by Wesley Morris
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Movie Poster Roundup: The Best and Worst of the Rough Moviegoing Months
Movies don’t need luck. They need an Internet wildfire and big marketing bucks (hopefully, to come up with good art). Good posters still happen. They do! Here’s where we currently stand with what we see when we stand in a megaplex line.
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Wesley Morris and Alex Pappademas
Live from a hotel room in Park City, Alex and Wesley discuss black ice, Richard Linklater, and their Sundance discoveries, including ‘Land Ho!’ and ‘Dear White People.’
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Sundance Diary, Day 7: One Swag House to Rule Them All and the Documentary of the Festival
Take Airbnb Haus. It’s a two-story cottage not far from the bottom of Park City’s Main Street. To pass by it on a Sundance shuttle bus is to pull the stop cord, get off, and wander inside. That’s how much it looks like a work of production design: You don’t just want to swing by this place. You want to star in it.
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Sundance Diary, Days 5-6: The Happiest Movie You’ll See All Week, and the Most Ridiculous
Land Ho! and Love Is Strange connect, Mike Cahill’s I Origins sputters out.
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Sundance Diary, Days 1-4: John Slattery’s Debut, Somali Pirates, and the End of Amateurism
After four days, it has become apparent that a sea change is complete. All the cynical worrying being done 10 years ago about what the invasion of the studios and the multimillion-dollar acquisitions would do to the movies here has created something new. Movies arrive more competent and expensive-looking than ever.
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#BOLO: Philip Rivers Style
The San Diego quarterback makes it work.
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Runaway Hits: The Diametrically Opposed Pleasures of ‘Frozen’ and ‘Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones’
Frozen, directed by Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck Of the dozen or so animated movies that have opened in the last year, Disney’s Frozen is the biggest smash. After a month, it’s still near the top of box-office reports. [Editor’s note: Disney owns Grantland.] Setting aside news of this week’s polar vortex, it’s not hard […]
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Dirty War
Lone Survivor and Peter Berg’s you-are-there combat filmmaking.
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Wesley Morris and Alex Pappademas
Alex and Wesley are back from vacation with stories about Beyonce in the real world and thoughts on Martin Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street.’
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Do You Like Prince Movies? Podcast: Beyonce and ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’
Alex and Wesley are back from vacation with stories about Beyoncé in the real world and thoughts on Martin Scorsese’s Wolf of Wall Street. Listen to the podcast here: ESPN.com Podcenter Subscribe to the Grantland Network on iTunes, and check out our podcasts page.
