We’ve all been trapped inside like “The Woman in the Window” for far too long, but things are looking up here at Breakfast All Day. Matt, Alonso and I have mixed reactions to this brazen Hitchcock homage with an all-star cast led by Amy Adams. We also review “Spiral: From...
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RogerEbert.com — The Woman in the Window
The long-delayed “The Woman in the Window” is getting savaged critically, but I kinda didn’t hate it. Joe Wright’s Hitchcock homage is stylishly made, has a tremendous cast including Amy Adams, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman, Brian Tyree Henry and screenwriter Tracy Letts, and it’s intriguing for a while. But when...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 11/13/20
The whole gang got back together — all too briefly — to talk about “Mank” on this week’s episode of Breakfast All Day. We couldn’t possibly have a discussion of this film without our old friend and co-host Ben Mankiewicz, grandson of “Citizen Kane” screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz, who’s the subject...
Read moreOscar Picks 2018
Apparently, I didn’t do any Oscar picks last year. Just straight-up blew it off. Unless maybe I did try to make the impossible choice between whether “La La Land” or “Moonlight” should win best picture, and what I wrote just evaporated into the ether. Either way, I’m back with some...
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 moreRogerEbert.com — The Space Between Us
“The Space Between Us,” about the romance between a boy from Mars and a girl from Earth, plays like a “Muppet Babies” version of “Starman.” It’s nutty. Not nutty enough that you should run out and see it, but still. It features an exploding barn. My 1 1/2-star review, at...
Read moreWhat the Flick?! — Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Machine gun-toting apes barreling on horseback through the fiery streets of San Francisco? Yes, please. Matt Reeves’ movie is pretty bad-ass — thrilling, terrifying and vividly rendered — but it also features some intimate moments of real emotional poignancy. We all dug it, although Alonso was less wowed than Ben...
Read moreWhat the Flick?! — RoboCop
Enough already with the ’80s remakes, amirite? The new “RoboCop” lacks the cheeky satire of the original, but it’s got a great cast and the visual effects are pretty dazzling. The boys and I are all mixed on it....
Read moreWhat the Flick?! — Worst of 2013
Many things suck. Here are three of them. Ben, Alonso and I pick the worst films of 2013....
Read moreWhat the Flick?! — Paranoia
This second-rate techno-thriller asks us to envision a world in which Liam Hemsworth and Richard Dreyfuss might share the same DNA....
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