It is a bleak week on Breakfast All Day as we bring you yet another Melissa McCarthy movie that her husband directed. Ben Falcone also wrote the aggressively mediocre “Thunder Force,” starring McCarthy and Octavia Spencer as childhood best friends who become superheroes. Alonso, Matt and I also review “Voyagers,”...
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RogerEbert.com — Voyagers
A group of gorgeous young people give into their most primal urges on a decades-long, interplanetary journey in “Voyagers.” And if that sounds like sexy “Lord of the Flies” in space, well … it is. But despite the familiar nature of the themes writer/director Neil Burger is exploring, his film...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 1/10/19
That sound you hear is January movies slowly trying to kill us. This week on Breakfast All Day, Alonso, Matt and I review the painfully feel-good comedy “The Upside” and the shamelessly heart-tugging drama “A Dog’s Way Home.” We also play catch-up with “Bird Box” on Netflix and try to...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — The Upside
My first review of 2019, and it’s a super January-ish January release. Kevin Hart and Bryan Cranston co-star in an English-language remake of “The Intouchables,” a mismatched buddy comedy that was a huge hit in France when it came out in 2011. “The Upside” recreates several key images and moments...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Divergent
Stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before: In a rigidly structured, dystopian future, one extraordinary teenage girl will emerge as either its savior or its destroyer. “Divergent,” based on the Veronica Roth novel, definitely follows a familiar, young-adult formula. But the performances — namely from stars Shailene...
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