“Stowaway” on Netflix is a spare survival story in space, featuring four characters on a doomed mission to Mars. It’s a clever take on a familiar genre with a terrific cast — Toni Collette, Anna Kendrick, Daniel Dae Kim and Shamier Anderson — but the slow burn may be too...
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Reviews
Breakfast All Day Podcast 4/10/20
We’ve got plenty of options to keep you occupied while you’re stuck inside on this week’s Breakfast All Day. Alonso, Matt and I begin as always with our weekly Coronavirus update, discussing how the disease is impacting the industry as well as good things like concerts you can enjoy remotely....
Read moreWhat the Flick?! Podcast 9/13/18
It’s our third episode of the What the Flick?! Podcast so it’s fitting that three of us are here this time. Maybe all four of us will be able to get it together for episode four …? Alonso, Matt and I talked about as many movies as we could on...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Pitch Perfect 3
“Pitch Perfect 3” supposedly is the final film in the wildly successful series about the musical misadventures of the Barden Bellas. Lots of overlong, tearful group hugs after the final a cappella song make that clear. But we really didn’t need a second “Pitch Perfect” movie, much less a third...
Read moreWine the Flick?! — Pitch Perfect 3
“Pitch Perfect 3” is the Barton Bellas’ swan song. Not that we needed three of these movies — the first one was a blast, and it’s been a matter of diminishing returns ever since — but nevertheless, here we are. And I couldn’t imagine a better person to aca-analyze this...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
“Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates” is a hard-R comedy that pummels us over the head with the same few, raunchy gags in hopes of beating us into submission. We’ve see so much better from all four of its likable stars — Zac Efron, Adam Devine, Aubrey Plaza and Anna...
Read moreFive Best George Clooney Performances
With “Tomorrowland” in theaters this weekend, my friend Ben Lyons posed the question on Twitter: What’s your favorite George Clooney movie? This is, of course, one of my favorite kinds of questions to ponder because it results in so many different answers and creates such a fun debate. Turns out,...
Read morePitch Perfect 2
Universal Pictures Rated PG-13 for innuendo and language. Running time: 114 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four. Stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before. A perky group of college a cappella singers suffers an embarrassing on-stage mishap, then fights to redeem itself and regain...
Read moreWhat the Flick?! — Drinking Buddies
Matt, Alonso and I all loved the smart dialogue, crackling chemistry and naturalistic settings of director Joe Swanberg’s latest indie....
Read moreDrinking Buddies
Magnolia Pictures Rated R for language throughout. Running time: 90 minutes. Three stars out of four. “Drinking Buddies” is a crackling screwball comedy refracted through a low-key, mumblecore prism. Admittedly, I’m not terribly fond of the word mumblecore and find it reductive — not unlike the phrases “chick flick” or...
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