Posts by Wesley Morris

January 28, 2013
The Best of Sundance

Sex, Snow, and Jessica Chastain.
January 18, 2013
Violent Bores

Yawning through The Last Stand and Broken City.
January 10, 2013
So, Those Oscar Nominations Were … Interesting

You can be honest. When Seth MacFarlane and Emma Stone announced the Oscar nominations this morning, you were nervous they were going to go all Baseball Writers’ Association of America and say, “This year there are no nominees.” Of course, if you’re Ben Affleck or Kathryn Bigelow or even Tom Hooper and Quentin Tarantino, isn’t […]
January 9, 2013
Is That What You’re Wearing? Django-era Quentin Tarantino

Of the characteristics that would appear on a list of Things We Like in a Great Director, “looking nice” would rank very low. But sometimes the threshold is violated in a way that’s compelling enough that you have to stop and ask how someone of such excellent vision could travel the world looking very much […]
January 3, 2013
The Oscars: Who Will Get Nominated?

Informed guesses, smart speculation, and voting fiascos as silly season begins again.
December 20, 2012
2012: The Year of the Superteam

The Heat, The Avengers, and the peculiar American love of the overdog.
November 30, 2012
Sportstorialist: NBA Hair

One of the most important issues of our time goes well beyond Andrew Bynum.
November 14, 2012
Sportstorialist: The NFL Coach Style Disaster

Can the tyranny of the hoodie be broken?
November 1, 2012
Yes, Novak Djokovic Wore a Darth Vader Mask on the Court for Halloween

Wednesday was Halloween in Paris, too. And one reason to love Paris is that it’s the sort of city where it’s often hard to know whether it’s October 31 or the start of Fashion Week. This is worth mentioning because something happened on Wednesday, in Paris, and it was so delightful, gratuitous, weird, and apt […]
October 18, 2012
The New NBA Uniform Power Rankings

Cleveland won something!

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