Fall movie season begins in earnest this week, and we have a Breakfast All Day review of two much-anticipated titles featuring deeply committed performances from their female stars. “Blonde” finds Ana de Armas at the center of a beautiful and brutal look at the life of Marilyn Monroe, and “Pearl,”...
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Breakfast All Day Podcast 4/12/22
We’ve got breaking news and catch-up reviews for you on our midweek edition of Breakfast All Day. Alonso finally saw “Everything Everywhere All at Once” and had very different thoughts on it from the review Katie Walsh and I did a few weeks ago, so he chimes in with a...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 4/5/19
It’s only fitting that we’re a week late on “The Beach Bum.” Moondog can’t show up on time for anything, so why should we? Still, Alonso and I are conscientious enough to play catch up with the Matthew McConaughey stoner comedy on this week’s Breakfast All Day. We also review...
Read moreWhat the Flick?! Podcast 10/25/18
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? They’re questions that apply to both of the big movies we review on the latest What the Flick?! Podcast: Luca Guadagnino’s thrillingly gonzo “Suspiria” remake and the frustratingly safe Freddie Mercury biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody,” which Ben, Alonso and I discuss a week...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Suspiria
Luca Guadagnino’s “Suspiria” is a gloriously gonzo take on Dario Argento’s 1977 horror classic — not a remake, exactly, but more of a serious (and seriously insane) expansion. The mood is deeply creepy from the get-go and Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton are exquisite. It doesn’t always work in its...
Read moreNymphomaniac: Volume II
Magnolia Pictures Unrated. Running time: 124 minutes. Two stars out of four. All the humor and humanity that made “Nymphomaniac: Volume I” such an unexpectedly rich and enjoyable experience are long gone in “Nymphomaniac: Volume II.” The Lars von Trier you know and love (or love to hate) is back:...
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