Hop in and hang on: It’s a new episode of Breakfast All Day. Our good friend Tim Grierson swings by to help me review the new Michael Bay extravaganza, “Ambulance,” which we actually enjoyed. Alonso and I review the Celine Dion sorta-biopic “Aline,” and catch up with the Judd Apatow...
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Breakfast All Day Podcast
Breakfast All Day Podcast 6/12/20
Spike Lee’s “Da 5 Bloods” is excellent and it’s on Netflix right now for you to watch and sink your teeth into. It’s one of several movies Alonso, Matt and I review this week on Breakfast All Day. We’re all on the same page about Lee’s latest, but we find...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Trainwreck
“Trainwreck” is anything but. It’s a great showcase for Amy Schumer’s distinctive and biting comic voice, but it’s also an opportunity for her to explore unexpected dramatic range. And it’s the first Judd Apatow movie that’s ever made my cry. My RogerEbert.com review. Read the review here...
Read more15 Films That Have Stayed With Me
There’s a fun challenge that’s been going around Facebook lately: Choose 15 films that have stayed with you throughout your life. One of the dads at school who’s become a friend of mine posed the challenge to me. Impossible, I thought at first. I write about movies for a living...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — The Other Woman
From revenge comedy to cautionary tale to scatological raunchfest to female empowerment drama, director Nick Cassavetes’ veers wildly all over the place. For a while, though, Cameron Diaz and Leslie Mann share an enjoyable chemistry as two of the three woman who discover the same serial philanderer has wronged them....
Read moreOn Harold Ramis, 1944-2014
There’s no way any of us realized in the moment how great Harold Ramis was. The comedies he directed, wrote and/or co-starred in have seeped into our systems through our pores and entered our DNA by this point — especially for those of us who grew up in the 1980s....
Read moreAnchorman 2: The Legend Continues
Paramount Pictures Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual content, drug use, language and comic violence. Running time: 119 minutes. Two stars out of four. “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues” is so scattershot in its stream-of-consciousness sense of mayhem, it makes the original “Anchorman” look like a John le Carre adaptation...
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