Posts by Wesley Morris

February 28, 2013
Sportstorialist: The NBA Needs to Stop Its Latest Uniform Experiment

The quiet shudder that made its way around the NBA a couple weeks ago had something to do with a uniform tweak. The league unveiled sleeved jerseys and announced its lab rats would be the Golden State Warriors. Debuting this occasional experiment on these particular guys was both a punishment and ontological bad luck: They […]
February 24, 2013
Oscars 2013: Who Will Win?

The rise of Argo, the fall of Bigelow, and how to win your Academy Awards pool.
February 22, 2013
Snitch: The Rise of the Action Tragedy

There’s a moment in Snitch that, if the world were different, you’d probably miss. But given all the talking we’ve been doing about guns, it stands out. Dwayne Johnson stands in the middle of an ammo shop. The camera spins around him the way cameras do when they want to convey a sense of being […]
February 19, 2013
In Defense of Roberto Benigni’s Oscar Freakout. (Yes. Defense.)

Roberto Benigni’s pair of over-caffeinated acceptance speeches from 1999 didn’t survive the first round of Grantland’s Oscar Travesty bracket. It lost to The King’s Speech’s stealing what the cool, the young, the Fincher-besotted believe was The Social Network’s best picture Oscar. It is the greater travesty since Benigni’s wins for foreign-language film and actor constitute […]
February 15, 2013
Die! Die! Die! Die! Die!

Yeah, so the new John McClane joint ain’t so hot. Plus: The rest of the week in movies.
February 13, 2013
The Splendiferousness of Walt Frazier

The signature style of the man they call “Clyde”.
February 7, 2013
Dr. Feelbad

Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects is a quiet bummer — but that’s nothing compared to the problems with Identity Thief‘s Melissa McCarthy.
February 4, 2013
Bow Down to the Queen: Notes on Beyoncé’s Halftime Show

It’s possible we’ve been living with amateurism and aspiration for so long that when an artist achieves honest-to-God perfection we catch the Holy Ghost. Beyoncé did that to America last night. She took live spectacle to the highest power, maybe even further given the time we as a nation spend dissecting mediocrity and rubbernecking at […]
February 1, 2013
Bullet to the Head: Those Late-Period Sylvester Stallone Blues

You could empty a bottle of Zoloft being sad about Bullet to the Head. It was directed and cowritten by the man who made The Driver, The Warriors, 48 Hours, and Trespass, and who either cowrote or coproduced the entire Alien series — Walter Hill. It misses being John Woo’s Bullet in the Head by […]
January 31, 2013
30 Rock Landed on Us

Identity politics and NBC’s most subversive show.

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