Tim Grierson
Senior U.S. Critic for @Screendaily | Often at @latimes, @rollingstone and @ebertvoices | Author of THIS IS HOW YOU MAKE A MOVIE | [email protected]
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6 days ago |
cracked.com | Tim Grierson
Some celebrity documentaries go out of their way to be fawning portraits, insisting that their subjects are the most wonderful, amazing, brilliant humans you’ll ever meet. And certainly Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie makes the case for the lasting impact of the stoner comedy duo Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong, who started out in the early 1970s, quickly moving from stand-up to albums to movies, including their groundbreaking first film, the 1978 commercial blockbuster Up in Smoke.
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1 week ago |
cracked.com | Tim Grierson
Pam Brady is a comedy writer’s comedy writer, her Hollywood career starting in the mid-1990s. If you don’t recognize her name, you know her credits: She was integral to the early years of South Park — she was also co-writer of South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut and Team America: World Police — and she wrote the cult classic Hot Rod and co-created the Maria Bamford sitcom Lady Dynamite.
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1 week ago |
latimes.com | Tim Grierson
The challenge of the Beatles’ greatness is that it’s so universally assumed — and so relentlessly chronicled — that nothing more need be said about the subject. Even when a fairly major new work comes out, like Peter Jackson’s revelatory 2021 documentary “The Beatles: Get Back,” a certain degree of cultural fatigue immediately undercuts the excitement of never-before-seen footage. With the Fab Four’s legend permanently woven into the fabric of society, what fresh terrain is left to explore?
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2 weeks ago |
screendaily.com | Tim Grierson
Hailee Steinfeld and Jack O’Connell co-star in horror rampage with a pointedly political bite Dir/scr: Ryan Coogler. US. 2025. 137mins An ambitious melding of pop spectacle and serious intent, Ryan Coogler’s swaggering vampire film has much to say about race and class divisions in America, a country that sucks dry its most vulnerable citizens.
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2 weeks ago |
avclub.com | Tim Grierson
It’s tempting to assume that movie stars sign up to do formulaic streaming-service flicks because they’re attached to a hefty paycheck. That must be a major factor, but sometimes there’s something more going on. From a certain perspective, these junky, disposable action films are almost like a fantasy camp—a way for a respected big-name actress to headline the sort of project traditional Hollywood studios rarely allow her to pursue.
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