Posts by Wesley Morris
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Do You Like Prince Movies? Podcast: The Canyons, Summer Radio, and Kenny Chesney
It’s a tight, focused podcast full of clearly stated opinions this week, at least until the Kenny Chesney conversation. It gets weird after that. Listen to the podcast here: ESPN.com Podcenter. Subscribe to the Grantland Network on iTunes, and check out our podcasts page.
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Sportstorialist: Baseball’s Swagger Problem
Why we’re talking about steroids in the era of Puig, Trout, and Harper.
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2 Guns for Hire: Washington and Wahlberg’s Paycheck Roles of a Lifetime
If you want to know how seriously to take 2 Guns, just look at Mark Wahlberg’s face after he and Denzel Washington are forced to hop into the dusty bed of a pickup truck and cross the border from Mexico to Texas. The trip is meant to be a punishment inflicted by an exasperated drug […]
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Do You Like Prince Movies? Podcast: The Wolverine, Only God Forgives, and Robin Thicke
Wolverine and Ryan Gosling go to Asia, Alex has the studio lit like a bordello, and Wesley has an adamantium-laced bone to pick with Robin Thicke’s critics. Listen to the podcast here: ESPN.com Podcenter. Subscribe to the Grantland Network on iTunes, and check out our podcasts page.
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Claws and All: Hugh Jackman Gets Ripped for The Wolverine and Cate Blanchett Outdoes Herself for Woody Allen
In The Wolverine, Hugh Jackman takes the live-action superhero body to a disturbing new place. And, no, it’s not the gym. Well, it’s not only the gym. Most of the movie is him in and out of a white tank top, his arms and shoulders abubble and athrob, the veins flowing with god knows what. […]
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Strange Fruitvale
The eerie intersection of Trayvon Martin and Fruitvale Station.
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Do You Like Prince Movies? Podcast: Pacific Rim, Andy Kaufman, and Dennis Farina
It’s a Category Five kaiju of a podcast as Alex and Wesley discuss Pacific Rim and blockbuster fatigue. Plus, an appreciation of the late character actor Dennis Farina. Listen to the podcast here: ESPN.com Podcenter. Subscribe to the Grantland Pop Culture on iTunes, and check out our podcasts page.
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It’s a Crime: R.I.P.D. Is DOA
Every once in a while you see a bad movie and wonder how more of them aren’t worse — a film so shitty on so many levels that you can’t believe no one involved with the production could see that nothing was working. R.I.P.D. is that kind of bad. It’s so bad, it puts other […]
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Small(er) Movie Roundup: Because Even the Studio Knows RIPD Is a Toxic Stink Bomb
Only God Forgives, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn How nice it would be to report that the second teaming of Refn and Ryan Gosling has produced something as ecstatic and electrically nasty as their first. But the nastiness this time isn’t nice. It’s just … nasty. This isn’t Drive. It’s a rib cage rolling on […]
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We Killed This City
The monster that is Pacific Rim and the problem with Kevin Hart.
