This week on Marvel Mondays, we get to revisit one of my absolute favorite MCU movies: “Doctor Strange” (2016), which is singular and funny and dazzling and, yes, strange. Nicolas and I talk about how Benedict Cumberbatch‘s character is the kind of archetype Tom Cruise often plays, how playful and...
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Breakfast All Day Podcast
Breakfast 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 more10 Best Films of 2017
Narrowing down the best films of the year to just 10 is always a daunting process. There have been so many great movies this year, and I’ve had the opportunity to see a lot more of them than usual as a member of a couple different award committees and, of...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Call Me By Your Name
Luca Guadagnino’s “Call Me By Your Name” is the best film of 2017. This story of unexpected first love set in northern Italy during the summer of 1983 is lushly beautiful and achingly sad, with pitch-perfect performances from Timothee Chalamet and Armie Hammer. It left me a sobbing mess. Come...
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