We’re so proud of April Wolfe, our former fellow film-critic-turned-screenwriter whose horror movie “Black Christmas” is in theaters now. April talks about growing up in conservative Grand Rapids, Michigan, her Catholic upbringing and the family bar where she worked, her early horror influences and how she got her start as...
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RogerEbert.com — Little Joe
“Little Joe” is a cautionary tale about a mother who’s too busy with work to notice that her teenage son has been infected by the pollen from an evil plant—a plant she designed, named after him and brought home as a gift. Actually, that description makes the movie sound far...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast: A La Carte With Adam Egypt Mortimer
Filmmaker Adam Egypt Mortimer and I are all over the place on this enlightening and entertaining episode of Breakfast All Day A La Carte. Adam discusses growing up in Cambridge, Mass., seeing tragic films at a young age, his New York death metal band, the role of anxiety in his...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — It Chapter Two
“It Chapter Two” is a thrilling, sprawling mess — overlong and overstuffed, but wildly, visually inventive with several moments of greatness. It’ll make you say “wow” over and over again, both when it dazzles and when it just doesn’t work. My mixed/positive review, at RogerEbert.com. Read the review here...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 7/18/19
We couldn’t let “Crawl” slink away from us without talking about it on Breakfast All Day. Alonso, Matt and I play catch-up this week with the supremely schlocky thriller, which weirdly wasn’t screened for critics before opening day. We also review Lynn Shelton’s largely improvised indie comedy “Sword of Trust,”...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 6/28/19
Summer is heating up and so is Breakfast All Day, with early reviews of two hotly anticipated movies: the sequel “Spider-Man: Far From Home” and “Midsommar,” Ari Aster’s follow-up to “Hereditary.” Alonso, Matt and I also review the Beatles musical comedy “Yesterday” and “Annabelle Comes Home,” the latest creepy doll...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 6/21/19
A couple different talking-toy movies are opening this weekend, so make sure you choose wisely when you’re with your family at the multiplex. We did an early review of “Toy Story 4” on last week’s Breakfast All Day. This week, Alonso, Matt and I review the latest incarnation of Chucky...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 5/29/19
Eventually we will all get the Elton John songs out of our heads. For now, though, we’re talking about “Rocketman” in a special Wednesday episode of Breakfast All Day. And we’re chatting at Alonso’s house this time because I am in the middle of moving. He, Matt and I review...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 3/22/19
Is it really me and Matt talking about movies this week on Breakfast All Day? Or is it our evil doppelgangers? You’ll have to listen for yourselves and try to figure it out. On our latest episode, we review Jordan Peele’s follow-up to “Get Out,” the deeply creepy horror film...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 3/1/19
It’s an all-night dance party all morning long here at Breakfast All Day. This is an extremely random week post-Oscars as Matt, Alonso and I review Gaspar Noe’s thrilling and transfixing “Climax,” the deliriously bonkers stalker thriller “Greta,” starring Isabelle Huppert and Chloe Grace Moretz, and the gripping documentary “Apollo 11,” which...
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