It is a bleak week on Breakfast All Day as we bring you yet another Melissa McCarthy movie that her husband directed. Ben Falcone also wrote the aggressively mediocre “Thunder Force,” starring McCarthy and Octavia Spencer as childhood best friends who become superheroes. Alonso, Matt and I also review “Voyagers,”...
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Breakfast All Day Podcast
Breakfast All Day Podcast 11/27/20
We’re stuffed full of Thanksgiving dinner and holiday movies on the latest Breakfast All Day. Matt, Alonso and I have a full plate of reviews for you: “Hillbilly Elegy,” “Happiest Season,” “Superintelligence,” “Zappa” and the second film in Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” anthology, “Lovers Rock.” In news, we talk about...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Superintelligence
Melissa McCarthy is woefully miscast as the most average person on the planet — who becomes the test subject for an A.I. — in the dreadfully flat “Superintelligence.” The thing that makes McCarthy a fascinating comic figure is her fearlessness; being milquetoast doesn’t play to her strengths. Trouble is, her...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Tammy
Melissa McCarthy has enough clout in this town and in this industry, after standout performances in the massive box-office hits “Bridesmaids,” “The Heat” and “Identity Thief,” to make pretty much any movie she wants. She’s used it to make “Tammy,” a comedy she stars in, produced and co-wrote with her...
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