It’s a big week for badass women in the music industry on Breakfast All Day. Alonso, Matt and I review Beyonce’s staggeringly beautiful visual concept album “Black Is King,” available for streaming on Disney+, as well as the Showtime documentary ‘The Go-Go’s,” which is a complete blast in celebrating the...
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RogerEbert.com — The Go-Go’s
I’ve loved The Go-Go’s since I was a kid growing up in the San Fernando Valley, so I am completely the target audience for Alison Ellwood’s vibrant documentary. “The Go-Go’s” offers a wealth of archival footage, photos and concert clips as well as new interviews with the five band members,...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — John Lewis: Good Trouble
The documentary “John Lewis: Good Trouble” is a love letter to the legendary civil rights leader and congressman. And justifiably so: the seemingly ageless octogenarian has been fighting for freedom and equality for decades alongside the likes of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. I wish director Dawn...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 5/8/20
Like, omigod, it is so totally awesome of you to stop by the Breakfast All Day Podcast this week! Alonso, Matt and I review the musical remake of “Valley Girl” (which I wish I liked more), the documentaries “Becoming” (about Michelle Obama) and “A Secret Love” (about a longtime lesbian...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Becomimg
The Netflix documentary “Becoming” follows Michelle Obama on her nationwide book tour, as she dazzles intimate groups of young women and packed arenas of fans alike. She’s enormously charismatic and a gifted storyteller, but Nadia Hallgren’s depiction of the media-savvy former first lady isn’t quite as “unplugged” as the trailer...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast: A La Carte With Janice Engel
Documentary filmmaker Janice Engel is the director and producer of “Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins.” She’s a really cool woman who made a movie about a really cool woman, and I was so happy to chat with her for the latest A La Carte. Janice talks...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 10/10/19
You’re not seeing things — there really are multiple Will Smiths in Ang Lee’s “Gemini Man,” and we review all of them this week on Breakfast All Day. Alonso, Matt and I also talk about Bong Joon-ho’s exquisite social satire “Parasite,” which will probably end up being the best movie of the...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast: A La Carte With Jamielyn Lippman
Filmmaker and fellow mom Jamielyn Lippman is my Breakfast All Day A La Carte guest this week — and she’s the rare friend of mine outside the critic world who sees as much as I do. Jamielyn talks about growing up in a big, close family in suburban Santa Clarita...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Midnight Traveler
It’s sort of a miracle that “Midnight Traveler” exists. The documentary follows husband-and-wife filmmakers and their two young daughters as they travel over three years and 3,500 miles seeking asylum. The Taliban has put out a hit on Afghan director Hassan Fazili, so he and his family must journey from...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 9/12/19
Don’t be fooled by the rocks that we got. We’re still Breakfast All Day from the block. And we were dazzled by Jennifer Lopez’s electrifying performance in the true crime drama “Hustlers,” although Alonso and I had differing levels of enthusiasm for the movie as a whole. We also review “The Goldfinch,” the...
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