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Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Fifteen Years Ago, 'Serenity' Failed to Turn 'Firefly' Into a Franchise

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Joss Whedon's short-lived, much beloved sci-fi/Western series got turned into a movie. But it wasn't in the cards for it to become a...

The Grierson & Leitch Podcast: Scammers, Assassins and 'Enola Holmes'

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On this week's episode, we review three new movies, all about women in different kinds of peril. I liked Kajillionaire and Enola Holm...
Tuesday, September 29, 2020

'The Boys in the Band' Review

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As a rule, I like to think that I can take on any movie, no matter what it's about. But with the new Netflix adaptation of The Boys in t...
Monday, September 28, 2020

'American Murder: The Family Next Door' Review

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In 2018, Shanann Watts and her two young daughters were killed by her husband Chris. How did such a horrible thing occur? The new Netflix ...

'Kajillionaire' Is a Comedy About Parental Neglect

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Head over to MEL , where I make my case.

How 'Paranormal Activity' Ended the 'Saw' Age

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Over at SyFy , I wrote about the original Paranormal Activity , which came out this week 11 years ago. Before this found-footage horror movi...

'The Life and Trials of Oscar Pistorius' Review

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ESPN+ is airing this five-and-a-half-hour series about the disgraced South African sprinter. It's just the latest "30 for 30" ...
Saturday, September 26, 2020

'Ava' Review

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Jessica Chastain kicks a lot of butt in the action-thriller Ava . But the movie is very not good .
Friday, September 25, 2020

'The Trial of the Chicago 7' Review

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Aaron Sorkin takes on the 1960s with his latest. The Trial of the Chicago 7 is very, very Sorkin-y, but I think it works pretty well .

Freddie Gibbs & the Alchemist (featuring Tyler, the Creator) - "Something to Rap About"

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"I think that day, I was listening to The Blueprint or something like that," Freddie Gibbs said of this highlight track from Alfr...
Tuesday, September 22, 2020

The Grierson & Leitch Podcast: Unhappy Families, Gothic Thrillers and 'Antebellum'

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On this week's podcast, I rhapsodize about The Nest and lament The Devil All the Time . Then, we figure out what went wrong with Antebe...
Monday, September 21, 2020

Axl Rose, Donald Trump and "November Rain"

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Trump believes Guns N' Roses' "November Rain" is the greatest music video of all time pic.twitter.com/g02ylDJKZS — Nando (...
Saturday, September 19, 2020

Paul Newman 101

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Where do you start with the career of Paul Newman? I'd like to suggest these 10 films .

'The Devil All the Time' and the Fallacy of the Anti-Violence Thriller

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The Devil All the Time is about the fact that violence is bad. It proves this by ... having a fair amount of violence. Can an anti-violent ...
Friday, September 18, 2020

'The Nest' and the Fear of Moving Homes

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About five years ago, my wife and I moved to a new place. I was very excited, until we actually got to our new home, and then I was convince...

Sault - "Masterpiece"

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It's so hard these days for a musical project to be completely clandestine. And yet, that's what we have with Sault. Who are they? N...
Thursday, September 17, 2020

'Ratched' Review

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Another origin story! This time, it's Ratched , which purports to tell us who Nurse Ratched was before we met her in One Flew Over the C...

'The Devil All the Time' Review

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I really liked Antonio Campos' Christine . So I was pretty let down by his follow-up. For Screen International , I reviewed The Devil Al...

The Grierson & Leitch Podcast: Are Movie Theaters Over?

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This week, we have a long chat about the future of movie theaters, which allowed me to go to bat for the theatrical experience. Then, in our...
Wednesday, September 16, 2020

'Challenger: The Final Flight' Review

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Do people remember the Challenger explosion? If you were alive, probably so, although I think that tragedy has now been obscured a bit in o...
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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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