It’s Timothee Chalamet Week on Breakfast All Day. He’s at the center of two giant movies with ridiculously packed casts of superstars and character actors alike. First, Alonso and I review Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” — or at least, part one of “Dune” — which we watched under extremely different conditions....
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Breakfast All Day Podcast 9/10/21
It’s finally starting to feel like fall, from film festivals to kids returning to school (and hopefully getting vaccinated if they’re old enough), and we’re here with all the reviews and news for you on Breakfast All Day. Alonso, Matt and I discuss the Zoom-era charmer “Language Lessons,” the documentary...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 12/19/19
It’s a week of extravagant and insane spectacles on Breakfast All Day, and we are here for all of it. Alonso, Matt and I had way too much fun reviewing the truly bizarre, star-studded musical “Cats” and the movie we’ve all been waiting a lifetime to see, “Star Wars: The...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 3/15/19
It’s a sampler platter of movies this week on Breakfast All Day, from indies to foreign films, great stuff to middling stuff. A very stuffy Alonso overcomes his allergies to join me in reviews of the all-star Netflix action thriller “Triple Frontier,” the subtly powerful Chinese drama “Ash Is Purest White” (with...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Triple Frontier
An impressive, all-star cast and an acclaimed director and writer come together to create a film that’s frustratingly uneven in “Triple Frontier,” which got a theatrical run before its Netflix debut. Oscar Isaac, Ben Affleck, Charlie Hunnam, Garrett Hedlund and Pedro Pascal star as former special ops badasses who rob...
Read more10 Worst Films of 2018
It’s been a year of changes around here, but it has remained a pleasure and a source of pride to be able to review films for a living. I still have six jobs and I have no job, as I like to say — it’s just that those jobs sometimes...
Read moreWhat the Flick?! Podcast 9/21/18
Alonso and I are here to invite you to join our girl gang on the latest episode of the What the Flick?! Podcast. We review the ultra-stylish, ultra-violent “Assassination Nation,” the latest ambitious, angry Michael Moore documentary “Fahrenheit 11/9,” Eli Roth’s family horror flick “The House With a Clock in Its Walls” and...
Read moreWhat the Flick?! Podcast 8/30/18
After 8 1/2 years, we’ve had to say goodbye to What the Flick?!, as you may have heard. But for the time being, at least, we’re reincarnating our YouTube film review show as a podcast. This week, Matt Atchity and I talk the historical thriller “Operation Finale,” the completely...
Read moreWine the Flick?! — Annihilation
I’m so glad I had someone to talk about “Annihilation” with me afterward, because there is a LOT to sort through. And I’m so glad that someone was Lisa Evans, a good friend and fellow mom I know from Nic’s former school. Lisa has great taste in movies and she...
Read moreOscar Nominations 2016
So it’s Oscar nomination day, an annual event I always looked forward to back when I had a day job. The announcement comes super-early — 5:38 a.m. Pacific time, to be exact, all the better to take advantage of morning TV news programs — but everyone’s in a good mood...
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