Posts by Wesley Morris

July 8, 2013
Do You Like Prince Movies? Podcast: This Is the End and The Lone Ranger

Alex saw This is the End and The Lone Ranger this weekend; Wesley listened to Paul’s Boutique for the first time. Together they fight corrupt railroad barons!
July 3, 2013
How the West Was Dumb

The Lone Ranger and mega-budget dreariness.
July 1, 2013
Do You Like Prince Movies? Podcast: Questlove’s Mo’ Meta Blues, Stevie Wonder, and Kelly Ripa

A conversation about Amir “Questlove” Thompson’s memoir, Mo’ Meta Blues; Kelly Ripa; how a great DJ can turn out an Apple Store; and crazy Stevie Wonder concept albums. Plus: A Prince movie is mentioned!
June 28, 2013
Sportstorialist: 2013 NBA Draft Style

Carping about the clothes at the NBA draft is a lot like complaining that onesies make your baby look fat. It’s too soon! These guys have the rest of their careers to figure it all out. With the draft, what you’re hoping for, at the very least, is that some of these players have been […]
June 27, 2013
Capital Ideas

White House Down‘s empty head and The Heat‘s big heart.
June 24, 2013
Do You Like Prince Movies? Podcast: Remembering James Gandolfini

Alex and Wesley look back at the career of the late James Gandolfini, a great character actor who became an unlikely leading man.
June 20, 2013
Get Rich or Die Trying

Sofia Coppola, hip-hop, and zombies.
June 19, 2013
Small(er) Movie Roundup: Because There’s Life After Man of Steel

Before Midnight, directed by Richard Linklater You know those accusatory, ticking-time-bomb questions two married people aren’t supposed to ask each other? Well, after two previous installments of complicated bliss (in 1995’s Before Sunrise and 2004’s Before Sunset), Celine (Julie Delpy) is going there on Jesse (Ethan Hawke). “What’s the name of the pediatrician?” “Would you […]
June 17, 2013
Do You Like Prince Movies? Podcast: Yeezus, Man of Steel, and More

Wesley’s back from France, there’s a new Kanye record, and apparently it’s still really hard to make a good Superman movie, even with Jesus in your corner.
June 13, 2013
Jesus Christ Superman

Man of Steel flies for our sins.

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