Fall movie season begins in earnest this week, and we have a Breakfast All Day review of two much-anticipated titles featuring deeply committed performances from their female stars. “Blonde” finds Ana de Armas at the center of a beautiful and brutal look at the life of Marilyn Monroe, and “Pearl,”...
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RogerEbert.com — Blonde
“Blonde” abuses and exploits Marilyn Monroe all over again, the way so many men did over the cultural icon’s tragic, too-short life. Maybe that’s the point, but it creates a maddening paradox: condemning the cruelty the superstar endured until her death at 36 while also reveling in it. My extremely conflicted review, at...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 8/2/22
And we’re back! Vacation is over and it’s time to play catch-up on Breakfast All Day. Alonso and I have a lengthy, spoiler-filled review of Jordan Peele’s “Nope,” and we slog through “The Gray Man,” the latest big-budget, star-studded, action extravaganza on Netflix. And in news, we discuss everything that’s...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 6/17/22
We’d like to go to infinity and beyond here at Breakfast All Day, but “Lightyear” has us feeling like we’re slogging through molasses. Alonso and I do not exactly have a stellar review of Pixar’s “Toy Story” spinoff. We also review a couple of Sundance Film Festival favorites that are...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 3/18/22
The erotic thriller is back and we are here for it on Breakfast All Day. Alonso and I review the hotly awaited “Deep Water,” now streaming on Hulu, starring Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas. We also review the Hitchcockian thriller “Windfall” on Netflix, and we finally do a spoiler...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 10/8/21
Pour yourself a martini — shaken, not stirred, of course — or whatever your drink of choice may be and settle in for this week’s episode of Breakfast All Day. Our great friend Katie Walsh joins me to review the new James Bond movie, “No Time to Die,” Daniel Craig’s...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Knock Knock
The moral of the story is: When two hot, much younger women knock on your door, scantily clad and stranded during a rainstorm, you probably shouldn’t have sex with them, tempting as that may be. The latest from horror veteran Eli Roth builds sly tension for the first half, then...
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