Everybody's Got One: The Home of Tim Grierson
Friday, May 31, 2019
Jazmine Sullivan - "Mascara"
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Some albums stay lodged in my Spotify favorites for months. I don't focus on them, but when a random track pops up on shuffle, I'm r...
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
'Pavarotti' Review
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I know nothing about opera, but I liked Pavarotti well enough. (Some of the best parts involve actually breaking down what makes a great...
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
The Best Godzilla Movies
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With Godzilla: King of the Monsters coming out, we decided to take a look back at the high-water marks of this big-screen beast. Check i...
Cannes 2019: 'The Bare Necessity' Review
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One last Cannes review: For Screen International , I wrote about the Directors' Fortnight offering The Bare Necessity , which is a fr...
Monday, May 27, 2019
The Grierson & Leitch Podcast: Will Smith, Teen Friends and 'Mad Max'
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On this week's episode, I recap my Cannes experience. Then, we review Aladdin and Booksmart . Finally, we look back at 1979's Ma...
Some Thoughts on 'Aladdin'
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When did Will Smith become America's dad? Who gives the best performance in Aladdin ? And why isn't Gilbert Gottfried in the ...
Some Thoughts on 'Booksmart'
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For MEL , I wrote about Booksmart and the importance of the sidekick in buddy comedies. Hope you enjoy .
'Rim of the World' Review
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Netflix released a kids' action-adventure movie this weekend. It's called Rim of the World . It is terrible. I wrote about it for...
Saturday, May 25, 2019
Cannes 2019: The Wrap-Up and the Rankings
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My sixth Cannes was unique in that, as opposed to previous editions, I wasn't in much agreement with my colleagues about what were th...
Friday, May 24, 2019
Kids See Ghosts (featuring Yasiin Bey) - "Kids See Ghosts"
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I had a chat with someone the other day here at Cannes about Kanye, and we were both talking about how much we liked Kids See Ghosts . So no...
Cannes 2019: 'The Traitor' Review
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In The Traitor , director Marco Bellocchio tells the story of Tommaso Buscetta, a mafia made man who turned government informant. This is...
Cannes 2019: 'Ghost Tropic' Review
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One of the fun things about going to a festival as part of a trade publication is that you'll get assigned to review movies that woul...
Thursday, May 23, 2019
What's Keanu Reeves' Best Performance?
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That's the task we gave ourselves over at Vulture . I'll say this: It wasn't that hard to pick No. 1, although from there was...
The Grierson & Leitch Podcast: John Wick, Anton Chigurh and 'The Souvenir'
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This week, we look at two very different assassins while reviewing John Wick: Chapter 3 and looking back at No Country for Old Men . In ...
Cannes 2019: 'Matthias & Maxime' Review
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Xavier Dolan is back at Cannes for the first time since his disastrous It’s Only the End of the World . (I was at that screening. It was ...
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Cannes 2019: 'Tommaso' Review
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Willem Dafoe plays Abel Ferrara -- or, at least, an Abel Ferrara stand-in -- in Tommaso , a bleak character study about a tormented filmm...
Some Thoughts on 'John Wick: Chapter 3'
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For MEL , I wrote about the life-affirming violence of Parabellum . (I also had some thoughts about Jason Mantzoukas and Anjelica Huston....
'Aladdin' Review
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I saw Aladdin before Cannes and wrote my review before the festival as well. I now remember nothing about either, so let's see what ...
Monday, May 20, 2019
'Catch-22' Review
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I tried and tried, but I just couldn't get into Hulu's miniseries remake of Catch-22 . I explain why over at MEL .
Sunday, May 19, 2019
Cannes 2019: 'A Hidden Life' Review
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A Hidden Life might be Terrence Malick's most urgent, tormented and vital film since ... The Tree of Life ? I reviewed his latest fo...
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