It’s Meryl Streep Week here at Breakfast All Day as Alonso, Matt and I review the splashy musical “The Prom” and Steven Soderbergh’s latest inspired experiment, “Let Them All Talk.” One of these movies is definitely better than the other! We also discuss the super-duper Irish rom-com “Wild Mountain Thyme,”...
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RogerEbert.com — Wild Mountain Thyme
“Wild Mountain Thyme” offers such a staggering array of Irish cliches, you half expect to see a leprechaun bounding across the lush, verdant countryside, hiding from those kids who are “after me Lucky Charms.” This movie is just relentlessly whimsical, and the accents are distractingly terrible. Writer-director John Patrick Shanley’s...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 10/9/20
During these insane times, it feels so good to laugh, and we did a lot of that this week on Breakfast All Day. Alonso, Matt and I have one of our most spirited arguments in a while over Adam Sandler’s latest Netflix comedy, “Hubie Halloween.” We also disagree on just...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — The War With Grandpa
What were these people thinking? That’s the question I asked myself over and over again while watching “The War with Grandpa,” a straining family comedy featuring the wildly overqualified Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Christopher Walken, Cheech Marin and Jane Seymour. No one needs a paycheck this badly. This goes...
Read moreNine Lives
EuropaCorp Rated PG for thematic elements, language and some rude humor. Running time: 87 minutes. Two stars out of four. It’s hard to explain how incredibly strange “Nine Lives” is. I mean, the premise is pretty simple: Kevin Spacey plays a talking cat. It’s as high-concept as you can get....
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Eddie the Eagle
I realize I am probably a terrible human being for not liking this formulaic, feel-good family tale, based on the true story of unlikely British ski jumper Michael “Eddie” Edwards. But for a movie about a man with zero athletic ability who had the fearlessness to attempt a perilous 90-meter...
Read moreJersey Boys
Warner Bros. Pictures Rated R for language throughout. Running time: 134 minutes. Two stars out of four. The Four Seasons’ music was poppy, frothy, infectious. Clint Eastwood’s movies are moody, weighty, elegant. These two artistic instincts wouldn’t seem to be a good fit for each other, and as it turns...
Read moreWhat the Flick?! — Jersey Boys
Hopefully by the time you watch this, we all will have purged the Four Seasons songs from our brains. They are darn catchy. Clint Eastwood’s film itself, though — while glossy and entertaining — is also rather conventional and safe....
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