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Wednesday, August 31, 2016

My Interview With Michiel Huisman

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Slowly but surely, I'm working my way through the cast of The Invitation , interviewing each of them one by one. I spoke with Emayatz...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Venice 2016: 'The Light Between Oceans' Review

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And now ... fall film festival season begins. We start with The Light Between Oceans , the latest from Blue Valentine director Derek Cian...

The Inside Story on 'White Girl'

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Over at Rolling Stone , I spoke with White Girl writer-director Elizabeth Wood and star Morgan Saylor about the gritty New York coming-o...

The Grierson & Leitch Podcast: Talking 'Almost Famous' and 'Garden State'

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On Episode No. 32 of the Grierson & Leitch podcast, Will and I look back at the summer movie season. We also look ahead to next summe...
Monday, August 29, 2016

Toronto 2016: The Preview

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The Toronto Film Festival is just around the corner. What am I excited to see? Take a look .

The Perils of Loving Jason Statham

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Mechanic: Resurrection came out on Friday. Not screened in advance for critics, it got bad reviews and then proceeded to underperform at...
Saturday, August 27, 2016

Movies About First Dates

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In honor of Southside With You , a drama about Barack and Michelle Obama's first date, I put together a list for MEL of the best mov...
Friday, August 26, 2016

Grimes - "Kill V. Maim"

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"One song on the album, 'Kill V. Maim,' is written from the perspective of Al Pacino in The Godfather: Part II . Except he’s a ...
Thursday, August 25, 2016

Summer 2016: The Best and the Worst

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Summer movie season is over. Thank god . What a terrible summer this has been. Just one bad big movie after another. Over at The New Repu...

Exploring De La Soul's Best Non-Hits

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Tomorrow, De La Soul release And the Anonymous Nobody... , their first disc in 12 years. Today for MEL , I explore the trio's back ca...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

'Gomorrah' Review

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My memory of the film Gomorrah is fuzzy, but I was sucked in by the Italian TV series that is adapted from the same source material as t...
Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Frank Ocean, 'Blonde' and the State of the Modern Album

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Remember how Spotify, YouTube and their ilk were going to destroy the album as an art form? How individual songs would become more valuab...

The Grierson & Leitch Podcast: Debating 'War Dogs,' 'Lo and Behold' and 'Breaking Away'

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This week's installment of the Grierson & Leitch podcast finds me and my buddy disagreeing on two films: the Iraq War satire War ...
Monday, August 22, 2016

Misleading Men: Hugh Grant

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Hugh Grant has starred in many beloved romantic comedies. And yet, his 1995 scandal in which he received oral sex from a prostitute remai...
Friday, August 19, 2016

'War Dogs' Review

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I wanted to like War Dogs . Miles Teller and Jonah Hill play Miami bros who make a bundle during the Iraq War selling guns. It's base...

Eric Church - "Kill a Word"

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Eric Church's most recent album, Mr. Misunderstood , came out last year. A song from it that I keep returning to is "Kill a Word,...
Wednesday, August 17, 2016

'Ben-Hur' Review

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Two things I should admit: I don't necessarily love the Charlton Heston Ben-Hur , and I didn't hate Timur Bekmambetov's Abrah...

The Grierson & Leitch Podcast: The Movie Review Lightning Round

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In this week's episode of the Grierson & Leitch podcast, Will and I go through a ton of movies in a short time. So, if you'd ...
Saturday, August 13, 2016

'Press Play With Madeleine Brand': Meryl, Dragons, Animated Food and 'Hell or High Water'

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The lovely Barbara Bogaev filled in for Madeleine yesterday on Press Play , and Grae Drake and I had a fine time discussing Sausage Par...

'Florence Foster Jenkins' Review

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Meryl Streep returns with Florence Foster Jenkins , based on the true story of a 1940s New York socialite who was famous for her terrible...
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Tim Grierson
Senior U.S. critic for Screen International. My writing appears at the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Vulture and the A.V. Club. My latest book is This Is How You Make a Movie. I'm also the author of Martin Scorsese in Ten Scenes and Public Enemy: Inside the Terrordome. Other books: FilmCraft: Screenwriting, Wilco: Sunken Treasure, and Blinking Lights and Other Revelations: The Story of Eels. (I'm also co-author of FilmCraft: Cinematography.) Email me at grierson@hotmail.com.
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