“Charlie’s Angels” is the reboot you never knew you needed in your life. As writer, director, producer and co-star, Elizabeth Banks has achieved a tricky (if somewhat inconsistent) balance between reveling in the playful, escapist fun of the original 1970s TV detective series and asserting a wholly necessary and modern...
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Reviews
Breakfast All Day Podcast 3/29/19
“Shazam!” is such a blast that we wanted to review it a week early. It’s one of the many films that Alonso, Matt and I discuss on the latest episode of Breakfast All Day. We also review Tim Burton’s disappointing live-action “Dumbo,” catch up with the teen weepy “Five Feet Apart,” rave...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Serenity
“Serenity” is laughably terrible but it’s also insanely ambitious in a way that must be experienced. This pulpy neo-noir starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway is one you’re definitely going to want to see with friends, just to hash through the Big Plot Twist that redefines everything. (Actually, there are...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 1/24/19
January is really Januarying this week on the Breakfast All Day Podcast. Alonso and I try to describe to you the insanely awful (and just plain insane) neo-noir “Serenity,” starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway, without spoiling its major twists. We also review the surprisingly fun “The Kid Who Would Be...
Read moreWhat the Flick?! — How to Train Your Dragon 2
The sequel “How to Train Your Dragon 2” is wondrous, colorful and vibrant. But it also dares to present some very serious themes and see them through to their completion. I took Nicolas to see it and he was only slightly frightened of the character Djimon Hounsou voices: a villain...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Baggage Claim
“Baggage Claim” is so archaic in its depiction of feminine self-worth—and, frankly, so insulting—it’s amazing that it’s coming out in 2013, not 1963. My RogerEbert.com review. Read the review here...
Read moreWhat the Flick?! — Baggage Claim
Ben and I were duly appalled by the insultingly retro romantic comedy “Baggage Claim.” Alonso blissfully missed it....
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