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...
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RogerEbert.com — Belfast
In recalling his youthful days in an insular neighborhood in the titular city, Kenneth Branagh has made a film that’s both intimate and ambitious—his “Roma,” if you’ll forgive the inevitable comparison to Alfonso Cuaron’s recent masterpiece. That’s quite a balancing act the writer/director attempts to pull off, and for the most...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 2/13/21
Pack your daytime AND evening culottes for your getaway with Breakfast All Day. Matt, Alonso and I review the giddy, absurdist romp that is “Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar,” as well as the infuriating documentary “Framing Britney Spears.” One of the best films of 2020, “Minari,” is...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 12/11/20
It’s Meryl Streep Week here at Breakfast All Day as Alonso, Matt and I review the splashy musical “The Prom” and Steven Soderbergh’s latest inspired experiment, “Let Them All Talk.” One of these movies is definitely better than the other! We also discuss the super-duper Irish rom-com “Wild Mountain Thyme,”...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Wild Mountain Thyme
“Wild Mountain Thyme” offers such a staggering array of Irish cliches, you half expect to see a leprechaun bounding across the lush, verdant countryside, hiding from those kids who are “after me Lucky Charms.” This movie is just relentlessly whimsical, and the accents are distractingly terrible. Writer-director John Patrick Shanley’s...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 10/30/20
It might be a wild week coming up, so we’re self-soothing with fun-size Halloween candy and inane rom-coms on the latest Breakfast All Day. Alonso, Matt and I review “Holidate” on Netflix, the lovely documentary “The Donut King,” the sequel “The Craft: Legacy” and the trippy, time-traveling thriller “Synchronic.” We’re...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 4/17/20
It’s sort of a blah week movie-wise and otherwise, but we’re happy to see each other and you on the latest Breakfast All Day. Alonso, Matt and I begin as always with this week’s Coronavirus news (including the cancellation of Comic-Con and Taylor Swift’s 2020 concert tour) before moving on...
Read moreWine the Flick?! — Fifty Shades Freed
It’s the thrilling climax of the “Fifty Shades” series — mainly because it’s so deliriously bonkers and unintentionally hilarious. My dear friend and former fellow school mom Jen Wang came with me to see the original “Fifty Shades of Grey” — and, like me, she was masochistic enough to read...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — The 9th Life of Louis Drax
This is a very strange, little movie. I’m still not entirely sure how I feel about it, but I liked it a bit more than I didn’t like it, if that makes any sense. I appreciate what it’s trying to do in mixing Hitchcockian suspense with magical realism. It works,...
Read moreFifty Shades of Grey
Universal Pictures Rated R for some strong sexual content including dialogue, some unusual behavior and graphic nudity, and for language. Running time: 125 minutes. Three stars out of four. I liked “Fifty Shades of Grey,” and I am not ashamed. I realize this is not the most popular opinion. The...
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