We’ve all finally seen “Tenet,” and we can’t make sense of it coming or going on this week’s Breakfast All Day. Alonso, Birthday Boy Matt and I had more fun talking about Christopher Nolan’s time-travel thriller than we did watching it. We also review “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” featuring Chadwick...
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My Trek to See Tenet
If there’s a better metaphor for 2020 than John David Washington wearing a mask and wandering through a disorienting world where time moves backward, I don’t know what it is. Yes, “Tenet” is finally in theaters — at least in some theaters, in some parts of the country — after...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 9/4/20
The thrilling “Mulan” should have been a huge summer blockbuster in the theaters; now, you can watch it at home on Disney+, and we have a Breakfast All Day review. Alonso, Matt and I also talk about the latest mind-bending drama from writer-director Charlie Kaufman, “I’m Thinking of Ending Things,”...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 6/26/20
Oh how we longed for “Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga” to be great; sadly, the only thing great about it is the running time, which is over two hours. It has some amusing moments in its celebration of international musical kitsch, though, as Matt, Alonso and I...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 5/15/20
Zoinks! Did we ever hate “Scoob!” on this week’s Breakfast All Day. Matt, Alonso and I also review the latest Happy Madison debacle, “The Wrong Missy,” Tom Hardy’s exquisitely terrible “Capone,” the fascinating documentary “Spaceship Earth” and the well-acted indie drama “Mother’s Little Helpers.” And of course, we begin as...
Read moreOscar Picks 2018
Apparently, I didn’t do any Oscar picks last year. Just straight-up blew it off. Unless maybe I did try to make the impossible choice between whether “La La Land” or “Moonlight” should win best picture, and what I wrote just evaporated into the ether. Either way, I’m back with some...
Read moreOscar Nominations 2018
It’s felt like a pretty wide-open awards season so far, but this morning’s Oscar nominations helped it take some shape — “The Shape of Water,” that is. (Yes, I hate myself, too, for that pun.) But Guillermo del Toro’s dark and swoony retro romance becomes even more of the favorite...
Read more10 Best Films of 2017
Narrowing down the best films of the year to just 10 is always a daunting process. There have been so many great movies this year, and I’ve had the opportunity to see a lot more of them than usual as a member of a couple different award committees and, of...
Read moreInterstellar
Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures Rated PG-13 for some intense perilous action and brief strong language. Running time: 169 minutes. Two stars out of four. Yes, I recognize the egregious tardiness of this review. “Interstellar” has been out for over a week now. I’ve started and stopped writing about...
Read moreOn Robin Williams, 1951-2014
Christmas Day, 1997. Chris and I had just gotten married two months earlier and moved back to Dallas, where I’d gone to college at Southern Methodist University, because he had a great producing gig at the local Fox TV station, KDFW. Chris was stuck working on that holiday, as journalists...
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