It’s a Christmas miracle: All four of us are actually here for the first time. And it’s a good thing, too, because this week’s What the Flick?! Podcast features blockbusters, comic book extravaganzas, serious awards contenders and everything in between. Ben, Alonso, Matt and I review the thrilling animated adventure...
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What the Flick?! Podcast
RogerEbert.com — Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
I can’t get over what a complete blast of creative joy the animated “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” is, and I can’t wait to see it again to catch all the details and jokes I missed the first time around. There’s so much going on in a gorgeously trippy, dreamlike way,...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — My Little Pony: The Movie
Oh, man are the Bronies mad at me for my review of the “My Little Pony” movie. Sorry, my dudes, but it is not good. It’s like eating a giant bag of Skittles, then throwing it all up in a fit of sugar-induced nausea. So if you’re down for that, have...
Read moreThe 5th Wave
Sony Pictures Rated PG-13 for violence and destruction, some sci-fi thematic elements, language and brief teen partying. Running time: 112 minutes. One and a half stars out of four. “The 5th Wave” plays like a Wayans-brothers spoof of movies based on dystopian Young Adult novels. Seriously, it could have been...
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Open Road Films Rated R for some language including sexual references. Running time: 127 minutes. Four stars out of four. Journalists love to bitch about things, especially when it comes to movies about journalism. They never seem to get what we do right, from the newsroom vibe to the way...
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