We’re back in the Matrix this week on Breakfast All Day — but did we ever really leave? Alonso and I review “The Matrix Resurrections,” the fourth film in the franchise, on this final episode of 2021. We also review Joel Coen’s avant-garde “The Tragedy of Macbeth” and Pedro Almodovar’s...
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Breakfast All Day Podcast
Breakfast All Day Podcast 1/29/21
It’s gloomy and rainy in Southern California, but we’re here to offer some sunshine on Breakfast All Day. Alonso, Matt and I review “The Little Things,” which feels like a “CSI” episode full of Oscar winners, and the deeply disturbing “Saint Maud,” the first truly great movie of 2021. In...
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 moreWhat the Flick?! — The Equalizer
Denzel Washington plays a man with a very particular set of skills. But “The Equalizer” is more intriguing as he slowly reveals those skills. By the third act, he’s just blowing things up and walking away from them without looking back. We all liked this, to a point....
Read moreWhat the Flick?! — 2 Guns
Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg have crazy chemistry, but it can’t drone out the din of the gunfire....
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