We’ve finally made it to the biggest one of them all on Marvel Mondays: “Avengers: Endgame.” Nicolas and I take some extra time with this one because there’s so much to talk about: how everyone responds to the aftermath of the snap, the way the Russo brothers balance action and...
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Breakfast All Day Podcast
Breakfast All Day Marvel Mondays: Avengers: Infinity War
It’s hard to believe we’re almost done with our Marvel Mondays series, but here we are with “Avengers: Infinity War” (2018). Nicolas and I talk about how fun it is to see the various Marvel characters interact with each other, whether Nic relates to surly Teenage Groot, how emotional the...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Marvel Mondays: Thor: Ragnarok
This week on Marvel Mondays, we’re up to a movie I’d been excited to rewatch from the very beginning: “Thor: Ragnarok” (2017). It’s one of my absolute favorites because it’s goofy, weird and full of surprises. Nicolas and I talk about how the humor in Taika Waititi’s film comes from...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Marvel Mondays: Avengers: Age of Ultron
It’s time for “Avengers: Age of Ultron” on Marvel Mondays, a movie I really didn’t like the first time and one that Nicolas had never seen before. On this viewing, we walked away with extremely different opinions from each other. Nic enjoyed the chaos of seeing all the Avengers fighting...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Marvel Mondays: The Avengers
It’s all been building up to this: “The Avengers” (2012), which brings together the superheroes whose films we’ve discussed so far on Marvel Mondays. Nic had never the first of these star-studded extravaganzas and really enjoyed it; I hadn’t seen it since it first came out and was just as...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 4/25/19
It’s the biggest weekend ever in the history of big weekends with the opening of “Avengers: Endgame.” Alonso, Matt and I have a review of the Marvel movie behemoth as well as a separate, in-depth spoiler talk, which runs from about 17:00 to 42:30, if you’d like to skip ahead...
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Breakfast All Day Podcast: A La Carte With Tracy Wells Tofte
These babies you see before you scarfing down cheesecake are me and one of my oldest and dearest friends, Tracy Tofte. You may know her better as Tracy Wells from when she played teenage daughter Heather Owens on “Mr. Belvedere” during the sitcom’s six-year run in the ’80s. Tracy and...
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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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Walt Disney Pictures Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi action, violence and destruction, and for some suggestive comments. Running time: 141 minutes. Two stars out of four. Much of what made Joss Whedon’s original “Avengers” such a joy in 2012 was his ability to juggle and make it look...
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The Weinstein Co. Rated R for language. Running time: 101 minutes. Three stars out of four. It’s been out for a couple of weeks now, but I didn’t want to let too much more time pass before I wrote a little something about “Begin Again.” This movie charmed me so...
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