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...
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Breakfast All Day Podcast 11/6/20
In an insane and unpredictable year, we’re especially in a state of flux this week as we await the results of the 2020 presidential election. No matter what happens, we’re here for you at Breakfast All Day — and we’re thankful that you’re here for us, as well. Alonso, Matt...
Read moreWhat the Flick?! Podcast 9/13/18
It’s our third episode of the What the Flick?! Podcast so it’s fitting that three of us are here this time. Maybe all four of us will be able to get it together for episode four …? Alonso, Matt and I talked about as many movies as we could on...
Read moreWine the Flick?! — Annihilation
I’m so glad I had someone to talk about “Annihilation” with me afterward, because there is a LOT to sort through. And I’m so glad that someone was Lisa Evans, a good friend and fellow mom I know from Nic’s former school. Lisa has great taste in movies and she...
Read moreOscar Picks 2016
I realize I said this last year. But it really could go a few different ways at the Academy Awards, at least in the best-picture category. That makes things kind of fun — even though I know my pick for the best movie of the year won’t take home the...
Read more5 Songs That Remind Me of Movies
I haven’t done one of these lists in a while, which is a bummer, because they’re always a lot of fun and they inspire spirited feedback. But when a dear childhood friend of mine mentioned on Facebook that he can’t hear the song “Just Once” by James Ingram without thinking...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Kill Your Darlings
“Kill Your Darlings” plays like a sort of Muppet Babies version of the Beat Poets. The self-serious way these figures regard themselves—and the self-serious way the film regards them—is cringe-inducing, early and often. My RogerEbert.com review. Read the review here...
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