Breakfast All Day Podcast

Breakfast All Day Podcast 9/24/21

How do you do, fellow kids? We’re just regular high school students like you, here to talk about the latest movies on Breakfast All Day. Alonso, Matt and I review the woefully misguided film version of the Tony-winning musical “Dear Evan Hansen” and the mawkish and metaphor-heavy dramedy “The Starling”...

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RogerEbert.com — Spirit Untamed

If you are an eight-year-old girl and/or you love horses, you will fit into the slim Venn diagram sliver that constitutes the ideal audience for “Spirit Untamed.” It’s a harmless animated adventure that will provide a bland diversion to young viewers. They won’t recognize how it wastes the abilities of...

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RogerEbert.com — The Woman in the Window

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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RogerEbert.com — The Glorias

Gloria Steinem has lived such a long and significant life that it takes four actresses to play her—including two Oscar winners—in “The Glorias.” That device of having multiple performers portray the veteran journalist and activist, and sometimes even having them engage in conversations with each other, is the most effective...

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Breakfast All Day Podcast 3/7/19

We’re all searching for our inner superheroes this week on Breakfast All Day. Alonso, Matt and I review “Captain Marvel,” the first film to focus on a female character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and “Gloria Bell,” in which Julianne Moore discovers her own powers as a Los Angeles divorcee....

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RogerEbert.com — Wonderstruck

Despite its visual delights — the gorgeous cinematography, the rich costumes, the vivid sense of place — “Wonderstruck” is a rare disappointment from Todd Haynes. He bounces back in forth in time in telling the story of two young people who run away to New York City 50 years apart,...

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RogerEbert.com — Maggie’s Plan

Echoes of Woody Allen and Noah Baumbach are unmistakable in Rebecca Miller’s romantic comedy about narcissistic, intellectual New York academics falling in and out of love with each other. Writer-director Rebecca Miller’s comic dialogue sparkles, but the dramatic underpinnings don’t work quite as well. My mixed RogerEbert.com review. Read the...

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