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Step inside the confession booth of Wesley Morris and Jenna Wortham, two culture writers for The New York Times. They devour TV, movies, art, music and the internet to find the things that m...
The public outrage was inevitable. The New York Times Magazine published a list of the 30 greatest living American songwriters. Two hundred...
“Michael,” the new Michael Jackson biopic, knows what it’s doing. That’s clear from the opening shot: high-water pants and white socks pushe...
Wesley loves Zendaya. The actress caught his eye as the charming but drug addled Rue in HBO’s “Euphoria.” But he thinks Hollywood hasn’t cas...
“Cannonball” is on its last week of spring break, so we’re sharing an episode of “Popcast” that features Jack Harlow discussing his pivot to...
While the “Cannonball” team is on a short break, Wesley is recommending some notable conversations he’s listened to lately from other New Yo...
Every spring, Wesley Morris finds himself searching for music that captures the light and breezy feeling that comes with the end of winter....
The latest from the Ryan Murphy television fun house is an unquestionable hit. It’s also a ’90s nostalgia bomb. People are trying to eat, sh...
Wesley Morris is an unabashed believer in the Oscars. That they genuinely matter. Every year, he has to re-convince his friend, Sasha Weiss,...
This is one of those “who knows what’s going to happen” years at the Oscars. And maybe the biggest question of the night is which movie will...
Back in 2003, a new reality TV show hosted and co-created by Tyra Banks convinced an entire generation that they too might have what it take...
Seven years after Toni Morrison’s death, we’re experiencing what the critic Parul Sehgal describes as a “wave of Morrisonia.” Eleven of her...
Valentine’s Day weekend is over, and we’re left with a new film adaptation of Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights.” Audiences are hot, bothere...
“We’re living in protest-y times! Where are all the protest songs?” That was a question that Wesley Morris was asking in the time leading up...
“The Pitt” is back for a second season, and it’s appointment viewing for Wesley Morris. Every Thursday at 9 p.m., the show serves up an emer...
“Marty Supreme” is a box office and critical hit. The film just received nominations in many of the most coveted Oscar categories — best pic...
Cannonball is taking a short break and will be back very soon. In the meantime, listen to this special conversation: Last November, Wesley s...
Wesley has a practice as a new year begins of saying goodbye to those who won’t be coming with us. He could have easily done an episode on a...
When a book publisher asked Wesley to write an introduction for a new edition of “The Great Gatsby,” he was confused. So many people had alr...
Wesley has been thinking a lot this week about what Rob Reiner gave us. Not the best movies. But our favorite ones. He wanted us to feel goo...
On today’s show, Wesley reveals his favorite film performances of the year — but his list is not an ordinary best-of list. He zeroes in on t...
The world is different once an artist dies. The same goes for their music. Since D’Angelo’s death, Wesley keeps returning to “Black Messiah”...
Cannonball is off this week for the holiday. But I wanted to share something with you from our friends over at The Interview. It’s a convers...
Netflix has a hit in “The Perfect Neighbor,” a documentary attracting a lot of attention for both its subject and its form. Using police cam...
Every December, Wesley’s hometown radio station, 88.5 WXPN, does some kind of end-of-year countdown, as voted on by listeners. This year, it...
For Wesley, the most interesting thing about Taylor Swift’s latest album didn’t have much to do with the music. It was the critical response...
Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson’s new movie, “The Smashing Machine,” sends him back to his natural habitat: the ring. But for the first time ever,...
Wesley Morris doesn’t go for cheap jump scares or gratuitous gore. Instead, his favorite horror movies fill him with a sense of dread. This...
Wesley Morris didn’t love Lady Gaga’s new album “Mayhem.” Then Caryn Ganz, The Times’s pop music editor, took him to see Mayhem — the tour —...
Wesley Morris has been talking about movie stardom with Bill Simmons of The Ringer for as long as they’ve known each other. The actor and di...
Paul Thomas Anderson is a very rare figure in Hollywood — he’s widely considered to be one of the very best directors of his generation, but...
This season, “South Park” is taking on the Trump administration the only way it knows how: with stop-motion, expletives and jokes about the...
Six years ago, with the publication of The 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones argued that slavery was a foundational institution upon which t...
We're taking a break this week. See you next Thursday! Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can als...
It’s been a long time since MTV was appointment viewing. And yet, billions of people are still watching music videos on the regular — on You...
Wesley was formed in the glory days of the summer movie: “Total Recall.” “Ghost.” “Pretty Woman.” All from the same epic summer of 1990. He...
“Highest 2 Lowest” is an over-the-top, bougie and unapologetically New York movie. It might also be Spike Lee’s most conservative offering t...
Wesley is joined by another unapologetic fan of the “Sex and the City” reboot, Taffy Brodesser-Akner. Together, they celebrate a show about...
Wesley went to the final stop of the Cowboy Carter Tour. He talks through what he saw — the genre of it all, and the quietly powerful politi...
What does Ryan Coogler’s vampire movie “Sinners” have in common with the Drake-Kendrick beef? Wesley has a theory that he’s been sitting wit...
Twenty-four years ago, Wesley Morris and the film curator Eric Hynes were just a couple of “cooler-than-you” cinephiles working at Kim’s Vid...
Wesley Morris talks with Samin Nosrat, a chef and food writer, about her love-hate relationship with “The Bear,” a show that’s always racing...
In the new HBO documentary “Pee-wee as Himself ,” Paul Reubens, the creator of the iconic character Pee-wee Herman, comes out as gay. Reuben...
The trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs ended on Wednesday when he was convicted of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution but was a...
Host Wesley Morris has a confession to make: He loves Bruno Mars. Nothing wrong with that, right? With the help of the culture writer Niela...
A new weekly podcast, hosted by the critic Wesley Morris. Come on in, the culture’s fine. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Appl...