“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...
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Breakfast All Day Marvel Mondays: Ant-Man
This week on Marvel Mondays, we were thrilled to revisit “Ant-Man” (2015), a movie that’s pure joy and the best kind of silly. It’s also one of Nicolas’ favorites in the MCU, and a breath of fresh air after the heaviness of last week’s movie, “Avengers: Age of Ultron.” Nic...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 4/9/21
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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Walt Disney Pictures Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action violence. Running time: 115 minutes. Three stars out of four. The end of the world isn’t nigh, for once, in “Ant-Man.” Sure, there are stakes. This is a summer blockbuster, after all. It has to make us care about something of consequence....
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