Posts by Wesley Morris

  • White House Down

    Apocalypse Fever, Sausage Fests, and the White House Under Siege: Thoughts on the Summer Movie Season

    Summer is always an endurance contest: week after week of Movies You Have to See. Once upon a time the season was four months, like actual summer. But climate change has managed to monkey with the Hollywood release schedule. Now summer starts whenever a studio says it does; last week Universal called summer first. So […]

  • Pain and Gain Still - Dwayne Johnson, Mark Wahlberg, Anthony Mackie

    Pumping Irony

    Michael Bay attempts to go Coen brothers with Pain & Gain.

  • Brittney Griner

    Brittney Griner and the Quiet Queering of Professional Sports

    What is happening here?

  • Do You Like Prince Movies? Podcast: Oblivion, To the Wonder, and Olga Kurylenko

    It’s a special Do You Like Olga Kurylenko Movies? edition of DYLPM? this week, during which Wesley lies on a rug that does not tie any rooms together and he and Alex discuss Oblivion, To the Wonder, twists that aren’t really twists, the beauty of a Sonic drive-in at dusk, and how hard it is […]

  • Oblivion

    Beautiful Oblivion

    Tom Cruise’s latest and the problems with modern sci-fi.

  • Brittney Griner

    Sportstorialist: A Night at the WNBA Draft

    The WNBA draft never looks like a sports event. It looks like a scene from a hotel jazz club. There is none of the beery pandemonium and emotional overkill that happens every summer when the men have their draft. The league’s president, Laurie Richie, doesn’t have to read the players’ names over a chorus of […]

  • Do You Like Prince Movies? Podcast: Harrison Ford and Upstream Color

    It’s a week of mysteries, conundrums — conundra? Conundrae? — and confusion this week, as Wesley Morris and Alex Pappademas examine the career (lost?) arc of Harrison Ford and struggle to get a handle on Upstream Color, the new film from writer/director/actor/distributor/pig-wrangler Shane Carruth. So basically it’s a special theme week and the theme is […]

  • Place Beyond the Pines

    Now Playing: Seven Movies to See or Skip

    Sometimes movies slip through the cracks and, for better or worse, I catch up with them. Here’s a handful, all directed by a range of men, from an Italian visionary to some dude named Robert Redford. The Place Beyond the Pines, directed by Derek Cianfrance A slow-burning drama told in three connected movements, all featuring […]

  • 42

    The Problem With Saints

    On the lifeless Jackie Robinson biopic 42. Plus, Danny Boyle’s twisty Trance.

  • The Do You Like Prince Movies? Podcast: Evil Dead, Roger Ebert, and More

    Alex Pappademas and Wesley Morris reflect on the many lives of Roger Ebert and the unholy rebirth of the Evil Dead franchise. 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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