Authors — Tim Grierson
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“We’re Magnifying Stupid”: Jeff Tremaine on Jackass: Best and Last
In Jackass: Best and Last (2026), some of the cast get unexpectedly wistful about the possibility that this will be the final chapter of the brilliantly sophomoric series. The man who has been behind the camera and orchestrating the madness from the start, director Jeff Tremaine, has been feeling a bit emotional about it, too. “I really felt it in the edit bay when we started opening up the old footage and looking back on how long we’ve been doing this,” Tremaine told me last Thursday. “Seeing all these guys as babies, that hit me a little bit. We thought that we […]
by Tim Grierson on Jun 30, 2026 -
Sorry, We’re All We’ve Got: The Limits of Community in 2019’s Best Movies
In Ad Astra, Roy McBride travels across our solar system to reconnect with his distant father Clifford, only to find a driven man whose sole purpose is to determine whether intelligent life exists out there in that cold, empty universe. But his son already knows the answer: “We’re all we’ve got.” Brad Pitt’s line to Tommy Lee Jones doesn’t just neatly summarize James Gray’s sci-fi drama—it also serves as the unofficial theme of so many movies in 2019, a year in which the fleeting notions of community and family were the only things many characters had to hold onto. No […]
by Tim Grierson on Dec 10, 2019
