It’s Thanksgiving week so of course we have a veritable smorgasbord of delights here on Breakfast All Day. Alonso and I start off with one of our absolute favorite movies of the year — the absolute best, I say — in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Licorice Pizza.” We also review Ridley...
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Breakfast All Day Podcast 10/15/21
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...
Read moreWine the Flick?! — All the Money in the World
My dear friend and What the Flick?! co-host Matt Atchity steps out from behind the camera to join me for a drink and discussion of “All the Money in the World.” Ridley Scott famously did last-minute reshoots of several scenes, replacing Kevin Spacey with Christopher Plummer — his first choice to...
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...
Read more10 Best Films of 2015
OK, people. No more cramming in screeners. No more dashing back and forth across town all day to see movies. Time to make the tough decisions about the best films of 2015. I try to keep a list going all year long to remind myself of what I’ve loved, and...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Exodus: Gods and Kings
Ridley Scott’s biblical epic “Exodus: Gods and Kings” is a numbing, soulless spectacle of 3-D CGI run amok. The plagues are fun, though. My RogerEbert.com review. Read the review here...
Read moreWhat the Flick?! — Exodus: Gods and Kings
Yet another opportunity to discuss how terrible Ridley Scott’s biblical epic is....
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