Breakfast All Day Podcast

Breakfast All Day Podcast 2/11/22

It’s Valentine’s Day Weekend AND Super Bowl Weekend, and we’ve got something for whatever you’re into on Breakfast All Day. Katie Walsh is back to join me for a review of Kenneth Branagh’s star-studded (and troubled) version of “Death on the Nile.” And Alonso and I review a couple of...

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Breakfast All Day Podcast 11/12/21

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...

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Breakfast All Day Podcast 12/18/20

We’ve all finally seen “Tenet,” and we can’t make sense of it coming or going on this week’s Breakfast All Day. Alonso, Birthday Boy Matt and I had more fun talking about Christopher Nolan’s time-travel thriller than we did watching it. We also review “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” featuring Chadwick...

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My Trek to See Tenet

If there’s a better metaphor for 2020 than John David Washington wearing a mask and wandering through a disorienting world where time moves backward, I don’t know what it is. Yes, “Tenet” is finally in theaters — at least in some theaters, in some parts of the country — after...

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RogerEbert.com — Artemis Fowl

It took 20 years of stops and starts but the film version of the YA fantasy favorite “Artemis Fowl” is finally here, and it feels like it’s in a hurry to get it over with already. Kenneth Branagh’s film, about a 12-year-old boy who goes on an adventure in a...

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Cinderella

Walt Disney Pictures Rated PG for mild thematic elements. Running time: 105 minutes. Three stars out of four. The Cinderella of Kenneth Branagh’s “Cinderella” never wields a samurai sword or a snarky, well-timed quip. She doesn’t transform herself into a warrior princess, nor does she wallow in too-hip pop culture...

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