It’s star-studded this week on Breakfast All Day, as a couple of our great friends swing by to help review some new movies with serious A-list casts. Alonso and I talk “Black Adam,” Dwayne Johnson’s long-awaited foray into the DC Extended Universe. Katie Walsh joins me for “Ticket to Paradise,”...
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Breakfast All Day Podcast 11/12/21
Awards season, standard time, Thanksgiving, Christmas — we’re deep in the throes of big changes, and we’re here to help see you through them on Breakfast All Day. The tremendous Katie Walsh returns to help me review “Belfast,” which lots of folks seem to be excited about as an Oscar...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 7/30/21
Hop in and go for a ride with us on Breakfast All Day. This week’s movies are all about travel: “Jungle Cruise,” the latest film version of a Disney theme park ride; “The Green Knight,” David Lowery’s gorgeous and trippy Arthurian quest; and “Stillwater,” starring Matt Damon as an Oklahoma...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 8/2/19
Summer is winding down and that means we’re finally (hopefully) reaching the last of the big, dumb blockbusters here at Breakfast All Day. And “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw” has got to be the biggest and dumbest of all, so naturally Matt, Alonso and I have some thoughts....
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 2/15/19
We are your valentine and so much more on this jammed episode of Breakfast All Day. Alonso, Ben, Matt and I are together again — three weeks in a row! — with reviews of the sci-fi extravaganza “Alita: Battle Angel,” the horror-comedy sequel “Happy Death Day 2U” and the extremely...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Skyscraper
Dwayne Johnson battles a Hong Kong high-rise in “Skyscraper.” It’s “Die Hard” meets “The Towering Inferno”: just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out...
Read moreWine the Flick?! — Rampage
“Rampage” is exactly the kind of stupid you want it to be. It’s about a giant, genetically enhanced gorilla, wolf and alligator who fight each other, destroying downtown Chicago in the process. Only Dwayne Johnson — with a lot of help from Naomie Harris — can stop them. It’s the...
Read more10 Worst Movies of 2017
The best part of being a film critic is you get to see everything. The worst part of being a film critic is … you get to see everything, whether you want to or not. Earlier this week, I posted my list of the 10 best films of 2017. Here are my...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Moana
The latest musical extravaganza from Walt Disney Animation Studios follows the adventures of a young woman who finds her own voice and forges her own identity as she becomes the first female leader of her people. It’s a complete blast with a great message. But for all its thrills, laughs...
Read moreSan Andreas
Warner Bros. Pictures Rated PG-13 for intense disaster action and mayhem throughout, and brief strong language. Running time: 114 minutes. One and a half stars out of four. The question isn’t whether “San Andreas” is ridiculous — of course it is, it’s a disaster epic about earthquakes devastating California —...
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