Cannonball with Wesley Morris

By The New York Times

Conversations about the culture that moves us – the good, the bad and whatever’s in between. Every week, critic Wesley Morris talks with writers and artists about the moment we’re in. Surprisingly per... more

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August 21, 2025Is the New Spike Lee Joint Serving Pound Cake?
“Highest 2 Lowest” is an over-the-top, bougie and unapologetically New York movie. It might also be Spike Lee’s most conservative offering to date. Wesley invites critic Vinson Cunningham to discuss whether the 68-year-old director is picking up an old refrain, and telling young Black men to pull up their pants.
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53min
August 14, 2025‘And Just Like That …’ Is Over Too Soon
Wesley is joined by another unapologetic fan of the “Sex and the City” reboot, Taffy Brodesser-Akner. Together, they celebrate a show about old friendships and middle age. And blame you for its untimely end.
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55min
August 07, 2025Beyoncé Isn’t Giving Up on America
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 politics — with Salamishah Tillet, Times contributing critic and the professor behind an entire class about Beyoncé.
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Watch our show on YouTube: youtube.com/@CannonballPodcast
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54min
July 31, 2025Don't Let the Vampires In
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 with for weeks. He shares it with the writer Rembert Browne, and together they consider the vampiric threats facing Black art in America right now.
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Watch our show on YouTube: youtube.com/@CannonballPodcast
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43min
July 24, 2025What NYT’s Top 100 Movies Missed: 2 Former Video Store Clerks Get Real
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 Video, the beloved New York City video store. They recently got together to dissect the trends, snubs and outliers on the Times’s 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century list and to shed a few tears over their own top 10s, which we've shared below.
FROM WESLEY MORRIS:
Norte, The End of History
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Piano Teacher
O.J.: Made in America
Wall-E
Moonlight
The Holy Girl
Inherent Vice
Love and Diane
Magic Mike XXL
FROM ERIC HYNES:
In the Mood for Love
The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence (tie)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
The New World
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Synecdoche, New York
Cameraperson
35 Shots of Rum
Inside Llewyn Davis and A Serious Man (tie)
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait

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July 17, 2025Has Dining Gotten Too Fine on ‘The Bear’?
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 against the clock. She says the best moments, in the show and in our own kitchens, happen when things slow down.
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Watch our show on YouTube: youtube.com/@CannonballPodcast
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45min
July 10, 2025The Closet in Pee-wee’s Playhouse
In the new HBO documentary “Pee-wee as Himself,” Paul Reubens, the creator of the iconic character Pee-wee Herman, comes out as gay. Reubens, who spent most of his career in the closet, had already come out years before but then returned to the closet during his time as the popular Saturday morning children’s show host.
On today’s episode of “Cannonball,” Wesley Morris talks with the writer Mark Harris about Reubens’s relationship to being closeted, and they discuss what it means for artists to publicly come out.

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57min
July 03, 2025The Diddy Trial Is Over, but My Mind Is Still Racing
The trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs ended on Wednesday when he was convicted of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution but was acquitted of the most serious charges against him: racketeering and sex trafficking. Wesley Morris, our critic at large, attended some of the court proceedings over the past couple months, and he walked away with deep and complicated feelings about witnessing the drama of, as he put it, “yet another very famous Black man on trial.” On today’s episode, Wesley wrestles with those feelings in conversation with our producer John White.
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Watch our show on YouTube: youtube.com/@CannonballPodcast
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46min
June 26, 2025Me and Bruno Mars — a Love Story
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 Orr, Wesley untangles his crush from his discomfort with the pop star’s cozy relationship to Blackness.
Thoughts? Email us at [email protected]
Watch our show on YouTube: youtube.com/@CannonballPodcast
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50min
June 25, 2025 Introducing: ‘Cannonball’ With Wesley Morris
A new weekly podcast, hosted by the critic Wesley Morris. Come on in, the culture’s fine.
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