Posts by Wesley Morris

  • Actress Sandra Bullock

    Do You Like Prince Movies? Podcast: Miley Cyrus, Sandra Bullock, and the Shining Sequel

    This week, Alex and Wesley discuss what’s wrong with Miley Cyrus and what’s right with Sandra Bullock. Plus: Lifetime’s Versace movie and Stephen King’s Shining sequel. Listen to the podcast here: ESPN.com Podcenter. Subscribe to Grantland Pop Culture on iTunes, and check out our podcasts page.

  • Sandra Bullock in 'Gravity'

    Sandra Bullock: Most Powerful Woman in Hollywood

    Whatever Sandra Bullock’s doing, she should keep it up. Get stuck in space again! Play an even more bumbling FBI agent! Adopt two illiterate black football players! We don’t care. We might just watch her do anything, including star in another movie with Bradley Cooper, maybe even if it’s as rotten as All About Steve. […]

  • Jonny Gomes

    Sportstorialist: Basebeards

    Understanding baseball’s facial hair explosion.

  • Runner Runner

    Runner Runner Goes Splat

    With some thrillers, you can tell everybody’s lying. It’s not because the writing says everybody’s lying! It’s because that’s what the acting is saying. In Runner Runner, it looks like everybody’s lying, and that’s only because the acting is pretty bad. The world of online gambling is meant to be the source of the movie’s […]

  • Do You Like Prince Movies? Podcast: Drake, Don Jon, and Walter White

    On a special All-Narcissism Edition of Do You Like Prince Movies?, Alex and Wesley discuss Drake, Don Jon, and talk to an actual psychiatrist about Walter White. Listen to the podcast here: ESPN.com Podcenter. Subscribe to Grantland Pop Culture on iTunes, and check out our podcasts page.

  • Aaron Paul

    Can Aaron Paul Be a Movie Star?

    Sunday night, Jesse Pinkman sped away — from enslavement, from Walter White, from death, from us. His final shot was true existential exhilaration, a moment of freedom both concrete and abstract. But for Aaron Paul, it was a double escape. He was speeding off from television. One of the many commercial breaks brought the news […]

  • Baggage Claim

    The Fast and the Furious

    Paula Patton runs for love, Ali fights for justice, and Ron Howard drives really hard.

  • Do You Like Prince Movies? Podcast: Breaking Bad

    Wesley talks to Alex about ending his Breaking Bad moratorium, and together they consider what has made the show so smart and where it stands in the modern television canon. Listen to the podcast here: ESPN.com Podcenter. Subscribe to Grantland Pop Culture on iTunes, and check out our podcasts page.

  • Enough Said

    Small(er) Movie Review Roundup: The Sex Edition! Starring Enough Said, Don Jon, and Thanks for Sharing

    Enough Said, directed by Nicole Holofcener In Enough Said, Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays Eva, a long-divorced Los Angeles masseuse who starts dating a dour television archivist named Albert (James Gandolfini). She’s not enthusiastic not because he’s fat but, oddly, because his name is Albert (no one calls him “Al”). The movie was written and directed by […]

  • Hugh Jackman, Prisoners - Courtesy of Warner Bros.

    Horror Show

    Prisoners, Insidious: Chapter 2, mom-swapping, and more things that go bump in the night.

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