Posts by Wesley Morris
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The People’s Critic: Remembering Roger Ebert
Moviegoing is basically a passive pastime. You buy the ticket, head into the theater, sit, behold, and leave — happy, sad, mad, moved, amped up, let down, confused. The movies happen to you. But Roger Ebert, who died yesterday at 70, happened to the movies and, by extension, he happened to us. For a quarter […]
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Sportstorialist: Coach’s Decision
Tom Izzo’s suits, Rick Pitino’s hair, and the tragedy of March Madness style.
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Knowing Not to Go Is Half the Battle — On G.I. Joe: Retaliation
Did you think a second G.I. Joe movie was a good idea? It wasn’t simply that the first one — taken from action figures and an after-school cartoon series — was nap-inducing (although, at least in my seat, naps were had). G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra starred Marlon Wayans and Channing Tatum, cost $175 […]
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Olympus Games
Plus a Tina Fey fizzle and the pervy, ugly Spring Breakers.
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Do You Like Prince Movies? Podcast: David Bowie, and Driving in L.A.
Grantland’s Wesley Morris and Alex Pappademas briefly discuss Alex’s acquisition of a driver’s license and then go on the deepest of dives into David Bowie’s body of work. 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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Sweet Vengeance
The sex. The violence. The remarkable career of Pam Grier.
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The Week in Movies: Answering The Call, and the Soporific Powers of Burt Wonderstone
Sometimes all people in an audience want is to be wanted, even when they’re not. They get desperate to stop minding their own business and start minding a movie’s instead. For instance, when a teenage girl’s been snatched from a mall parking lot and thrown into a trunk, then comes this close to being rescued […]
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The Wizard of Zzzz
No heart, little brains, and not a lot of courage in Sam Raimi’s latest. Plus: the rest of the week in movies.
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The Do You Like Prince Movies? Podcast: Wesley Morris and Alex Pappademas on James Franco, Pam Grier, Beck, and More
Welcome to the inaugural Do You Like Prince Movies? podcast. Why are we calling it that? We’ll never tell. But we do like living in a world where it’s OK to walk up to somebody at a party and ask that. This week we’re also asking Why Does James Franco Fail to Annoy Us? What […]
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21 & Over: Ain’t No Party Like a Disappointing, Binge-Drinking, Vomiting-on-a-Mechanical-Bull Party
The sense of comedic escalation in 21 & Over is inversely proportional to it actually being funny. This is a party movie that, like a Harold & Kumar film, is out in search of the party. Here the stakes seem small. Two college seniors named Miller and Casey (Miles Teller and Skylar Astin) surprise-visit their […]
