There’s a place for us, and it’s right here at Breakfast All Day. Alonso and I have reviews of some of the biggest year-end movies this week, starting with Steven Spielberg’s lush and glorious version of the musical “West Side Story.” We also discuss Adam McKay’s star-studded and heavy-handed satire...
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Breakfast All Day Podcast
Christy by Request — Who Framed Roger Rabbit
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” — probably since it came out 30 years ago. I fondly recall watching it with my dad at the now-defunct UA Warner Center in Woodland Hills, the location of so many of my Valley Girl movie memories. But...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Ready Player One
The action is breathless and non-stop in “Ready Player One,” both in the virtual reality and the reality reality, but wallowing in ‘80s nostalgia is only so much fun for so long—even if you’re a child of the era (as I am)—and it only really works when it serves to...
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Revisiting Shia LaBeouf
You may have heard that Shia LaBeouf has been doing this nutty thing — er, art project — in which he’s going back and rewatching all his movies, in reverse order, for three days straight at the Angelika Film Center in New York. The project even has a hashtag:...
Read moreJurassic World
Universal Pictures Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of science-fiction violence and peril. Running time: 123 minutes. Two stars out of four. It’s silly of me, right? I have this notion that a big, splashy blockbuster should provide characters and story lines that matter, that engage us, so that there are...
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