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Monday, March 29, 2021

'Godzilla vs. Kong' Review

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One of 'em is a lizard. The other is an ape. They don't get along. Also, they're freakin' huge . For Screen International , ...
Friday, March 26, 2021

'A Film and a Movie': Talking About 'Safe' and 'She Dies Tomorrow'

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I really enjoyed being on A Film and a Movie , a podcast (co-hosted by my old pal Alonso Duralde) in which the guest is invited to suggest t...

'Press Play With Madeleine Brand': Bob Odenkirk, 'Shoplifters of the World' and 'Six Minutes to Midnight'

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I was on KCRW on Thursday, as opposed to the usual Friday, to review this weekend's new movies, alongside my pal Katie Walsh. Listen to ...

SXSW 2021: 'Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free' Review

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Since Tom Petty died a few years ago, I've noticed that he's been judged far more glowingly than he did when he was alive. Likewise,...

Tina Turner - "Better Be Good to Me"

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Years ago when I interviewed Carter -- just Carter -- for my Eels book , I didn't have time to get into this, but I really wanted to as...
Wednesday, March 24, 2021

The Grierson & Leitch Podcast: Going Back to the 1980s for 'Arthur' and 'Cobra'

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We spent a lot of time talking about Zack Snyder's Justice League on this week's episode, but what was perhaps more interesting was...
Tuesday, March 23, 2021

We Still Need "We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)"

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For MEL , I looked back at Tina Turner's big hit from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome ... and ended up learning a lot about the song's l...

Emilio Estevez and the Hell of Being Part of the Brat Pack

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The Mighty Ducks star is returning to the franchise for the new Disney+ series. For MEL , that inspired some thoughts about his heyday in t...

My Interview With the Authors of 'Nothin' But a Good Time'

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Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstock are music journalists who have compiled an oral history of the 1980s hard rock scene. The book is a doozy...
Monday, March 22, 2021

'Nobody' Review

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Bob Odenkirk gets his John Wick on with Nobody . I think the movie is ... good enough. My review is up at Screen International .
Sunday, March 21, 2021

'Breakfast All Day': Talking About 'Operation Varsity Blues' and 'This Is How You Make a Movie'

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I always enjoyed joining the What the Flick?! crew to talk movies. Now, they're doing a new podcast, Breakfast All Day , and they were ...

SXSW 2021: 'The Fallout' Review

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The Fallout won the jury dramatic prize at SXSW this year, and it tells the story of two teenagers (Jenny Ortega, Maddie Ziegler) grappling...

SXSW 2021: 'Swan Song' Review

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Udo Kier is known for playing outlandish, often evil characters. But in Swan Song , he takes on a very different role, that of an aging hair...

'The Falcon and the Winter Soldier' Review

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Who's ready for the Chief Wiggum, P.I. of the Marvel Cinematic Universe? For MEL , I reviewed The Falcon and the Winter Soldier .
Friday, March 19, 2021

Minnie Riperton - "Inside My Love"

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"Minnie Riperton wrote 'Inside My Love' with Leon Ware and her husband Richard Rudolph. The soul-deep intimacy that Riperton wa...
Thursday, March 18, 2021

SXSW 2021: 'Violet' Review

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Olivia Munn is quite touching in Violet , which is about a Hollywood executive who can't shut off the negative voice in her head -- and ...

The Grierson & Leitch Podcast: 'Apocalypse Now: Final Cut,' 'Bend It Like Beckham' and 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire'

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No new movies this week, so we did three Reboot requests: one from 1979 (kinda), one from 2002, and one from 2019. You can hear the whole th...

Keith Law Interviews Me About 'This Is How You Make a Movie'

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I'll get into it more later, but my latest book, This Is How You Make a Movie , is out now. (You can order it at Amazon or Bookshop .) ...

Zack Snyder Is Trying to Save Superhero Cinema

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My strongest feeling while watching Zack Snyder's Justice League was just how ... old-fashioned it is. Redoing a four-year-old movie in...
Wednesday, March 17, 2021

'City of Lies' Review

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City of Lies has been sitting on the shelf for a while. It's a long story, but suffice it to say, the movie isn't very good. My rev...
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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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