It’s been an exciting week! And we’re here to discuss all of it — and maybe even review some movies — on Breakfast All Day. In news, Alonso, Matt and I talk about the end of the Trump presidency and the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, complete with...
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RogerEbert.com — No Man’s Land
In telling a story of violence along the Texas-Mexico border from a different perspective, “No Man’s Land” clearly has the best of intentions. Director Conor Allyn, and his brother, star, and co-writer Jake Allyn, are trying to make us look at this contentious swath of land through fresh and sympathetic eyes,...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — El Chicano
A different kind of superhero emerges during these blockbuster times in “El Chicano,” an operatic yet gritty drama from director and co-writer Ben Hernandez Bray. Raul Castillo, who was so great in “We the Animals,” is an LAPD detective on the hunt for a Mexican-American Batman — a masked man...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Meet the Blacks
“Meet the Blacks” is, fundamentally, a spoof of “The Purge” in which a black family moves from a violent section of Chicago to a wealthy enclave in Beverly Hills and finds it’s even more dangerous for them there. But if this is going to be your premise — whites killing...
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