Posts by Wesley Morris
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Cannes Diary, Day 6: False Alarms, Speed-Dating Inside Llewyn Davis, and a Last Tango in Tikrit
At some point this afternoon, there were only two ways to deal with the traffic on the Croisette: Cry or make someone else cry. The clog was bad by any (non-disaster) standard. Civilian vehicles had been rerouted to side streets to clear the boulevard outside the Palais for official cars. For pedestrians, this meant having […]
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Cannes Diary, Days 3-5: Coen Bros. Films and Real-Life Jewel Heists
Day 3: Scary With Children I’m OK, everybody. It’s true that I’m staying in the very hotel where $1,000,000 in House of Chopard jewels was stolen late Thursday night. Except for the sudden appearance of a very tired-looking security gentleman asking to see hotel keys, you’d never know anything had happened. The sun was out […]
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Cannes Diary, Day 2: Bling Ring Sings
Day 1 of this festival is usually the great unveiling. Day 2 begins the collective carping: Why on earth is this film up for the Palme d’Or and not this other one? The two major programs here — the main competition and the second-tier slate, Un Certain Regard — have very different outcomes. One puts […]
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Cannes Diary, Day 1: Spielberg Gets Misty, DiCaprio Gets Wet
It’s easy to prepare for most of what goes on at this festival. You know that at some point you’ll nearly be run over by any of the official black sedans that could be dropping off Emma Watson then heading off to Transporter 7. You know you’ll wind up trapped watching a three-hour talkathon that’s […]
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Do You Like Prince Movies? Podcast: The Great Gatsby and Ray Harryhausen
Alex and Wesley remember special-effects titan Ray Harryhausen and stare into the unearthly green glow of Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby. 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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@TheGreatGatsby!
Baz Luhrmann’s latest insane, over-the-top, occasionally brilliant, ultimately empty, spectacular spectacular.
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Do You Like Prince Movies? Podcast: Iron Man 3, Shane Black, and Mad Men
Alex and Wesley try to talk briefly about Iron Man and calmly about Mad Men‘s race problem; it doesn’t work. Listen to the podcast here: ESPN.com Podcenter. Subscribe to the Grantland Pop Culture podcasts on iTunes, and check out our podcasts page.
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Ashes to Ashes, Rust to Rust
Can Shane Black save Iron Man?
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Steven Soderbergh Is Still Pretty Depressed About How Hollywood Works
Before anybody sits down to eat a big bowl of Iron Man 3 (well, any North American body; the rest of the world’s been eating for a week, and based on the grosses I’d say they’re full), Steven Soderbergh needs the world to know that the movies are in trouble. In a rambling but frequently […]
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Do You Like Prince Movies? Podcast: Pain & Gain and Michael Bay
Like everyone else on the Internet, Wesley and Alex wanted Michael Bay’s Pain & Gain — his first film without Decepticons in a while — to be amazing. And it’s amazing. But is it good? Is it funny? What does Michael Bay want from us? What does Michael Bay want from Michael Bay? And is […]
