This week on Marvel Mondays, we’re up to “Spider-Man: Homecoming” (2017), one of Nicolas’ absolute favorites and a movie he’d been looking forward to revisiting since the beginning of our series. He and I discuss the infectious joy of Tom Holland’s performance, the cool, meta casting of Michael Keaton, the...
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Breakfast All Day Marvel Mondays: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Rocket and Drax and Groot — now in baby form — are back in “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” (2017), the rare sequel that’s better than the original. At least I think so on this week’s episode of Marvel Mondays. Nicolas loves it, too, beginning with its exuberantly joyful...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Marvel Mondays: Doctor Strange
This week on Marvel Mondays, we get to revisit one of my absolute favorite MCU movies: “Doctor Strange” (2016), which is singular and funny and dazzling and, yes, strange. Nicolas and I talk about how Benedict Cumberbatch‘s character is the kind of archetype Tom Cruise often plays, how playful and...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 5/6/21
Sure, it’s Mother’s Day weekend, but Alonso, Matt and I have a bunch of movies about dudes to review on Breakfast All Day. Guy Ritchie and Jason Statham re-team for the heist thriller “Wrath of Man.” Billy Crystal directs and stars as an aging comedian with dementia in “Here Today.”...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Marvel Mondays: Iron Man 3
“Iron Man 3” (2013) inspired the most hilarious discussion we’ve had yet on Marvel Mondays. Nicolas loved this movie, so we had a blast watching and discussing it. But also, there are so many weird, little moments during our conversation that made it stand out. We talk about the snappy...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Cosmic Sin
“Cosmic Sin” is the movie that inspired me to begin my worst-of-2021 list. It’s a cheesy, sci-fi action flick about alien zombies which isn’t even fun in a bad, B-movie sort of way. And it features yet another sleepwalking performance from Bruce Willis. My zero-star review, at RogerEbert.com. Read the...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Marvel Mondays: The Incredible Hulk
We’re back with our second episode of Marvel Mondays! Following last week’s debut discussion of “Iron Man,” Nicolas and I chat about the next film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the extremely forgettable “The Incredible Hulk” (2008). As in, not only did I forget it exists, I also forgot that...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Marvel Mondays: Iron Man
Welcome to the first episode of Marvel Mondays! It’s a Breakfast All Day podcast series I’m doing with my 11-year-old son, Nicolas, in which we’re watching all the Marvel movies in order and then having a little conversation afterward. (And in case you’re curious, we’re doing them in order of...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — The Marksman
It’s time for your annual Liam Neesoning: that cinematic tradition in which the seasoned star plays a grizzled character with a particular set of skills, which come in handy to dispatch bad guys and rescue good ones. But this year’s entry in the subgenre, “The Marksman,” is particularly mediocre. You...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Wonder Woman 1984
Working through some very mixed feeling with my review of “Wonder Woman 1984.” Gal Gadot is enormously charismatic and perfectly cast once again as the DC Comic superhero, and she retains her authentic connection with the audience. And Kristen Wiig gets to flex some intriguing muscles as the film’s villain....
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