Breakfast All Day Podcast

Breakfast All Day Podcast 12/13/19

Mid-December means family-friendly crowd pleasers and thought-provoking awards contenders, and we’ve got ’em all at Breakfast All Day. This week, Alonso, Matt and I review the action sequel “Jumanji: The Next Level,” the Fox News drama “Bombshell” and Clint Eastwood’s “Richard Jewell,” and we catch up with Trey Edward Shults’...

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What the Flick?! Podcast 12/14/18

It’s a Christmas miracle: All four of us are actually here for the first time. And it’s a good thing, too, because this week’s What the Flick?! Podcast features blockbusters, comic book extravaganzas, serious awards contenders and everything in between. Ben, Alonso, Matt and I review the thrilling animated adventure...

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RogerEbert.com — The Mule

All the pieces would seem to be on place here for a gripping and grown-up drama, including an incredible cast led by director Clint Eastwood. So why does the result feel so empty and unsatisfying? “The Mule” has some serious problems in terms of its depiction of Hispanics and women....

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The Longest Ride

20th Century Fox Rated PG-13 for some sexuality, partial nudity, and some war and sports action. Running time: 128 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four. Movies based on Nicholas Sparks novels are low-hanging fruit. With their patented formula of painfully earnest romance and melodrama, they are easy...

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Oscar Nominations 2015

First of all, I’m not sure why I care so much. I said this to my husband this morning after the Academy Award nominations came out and I was thoroughly worked up over how terrible they were. I’m not sure why any of us care so much, actually. Maybe it’s...

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Jersey 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...

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