We’ll take up our swords and fight for your honor this week on Breakfast All Day. My great friend Katie Walsh of Tribune News Service returns to help me review Ridley Scott’s medieval “Rashomon” tale “The Last Duel.” Then, it’s just me and Alonso for reviews of the sequel “Halloween...
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Breakfast All Day Podcast 9/18/20
It’s a week of heavy emotions on Breakfast All Day — and we recorded this episode before the tragic news broke of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing. But Alonso, Matt and I do have film reviews for you of the ambitious but deeply misguided “Antebellum,” the sprawling, Southern...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 6/9/20
It’s a quick Tuesday catch-up on Breakfast All Day as Matt, Alonso and I review the films we meant to discuss last week but instead devoted an hour to Black Lives Matters protests and coronavirus news. There’s some good stuff out there: the trippy literary drama “Shirley,” which may end...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Damsel
Mia Wasikowska may be a damsel but she’s certainly not in distress in the Zellners brothers’ quirky, revisionist Western. “Damsel” is a sly feminist manifesto disguised as a shaggy, amiable hangout movie. And it features another wonderfully weird performance from Robert Pattinson, who continues to take chances post-“Twilight.” My review, at...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Madame Bovary
The Madame Bovary of this “Madame Bovary” could be Betty Draper. She could be a reality-show housewife or the mom waiting in front of you in an SUV in the pickup line at school. My mixed review of this beautiful but emotionally detached take on Gustave Flaubert’s great novel, at...
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