We’ll give you our hearts this Christmas and every Christmas here at the Breakfast All Day Podcast. Alonso, Matt and I discuss the George Michael-inspired romantic comedy “Last Christmas,” which fell shy of our high expectations; “Doctor Sleep,” the hit-and-miss sequel to “The Shining”; and the devastating drama “Marriage Story.”...
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Breakfast All Day Podcast: A La Carte With Jamielyn Lippman
Filmmaker and fellow mom Jamielyn Lippman is my Breakfast All Day A La Carte guest this week — and she’s the rare friend of mine outside the critic world who sees as much as I do. Jamielyn talks about growing up in a big, close family in suburban Santa Clarita...
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5 Great Snow Movies
Greetings from Banff, Alberta, where I’ve been skiing all week with my family in the stunning Canadian Rockies. My L.A. kid had never even seen snow in person, much less skied on it, prior to this trip. He’s having a blast — we all are — but naturally, the dramatic...
Read more15 Films That Have Stayed With Me
There’s a fun challenge that’s been going around Facebook lately: Choose 15 films that have stayed with you throughout your life. One of the dads at school who’s become a friend of mine posed the challenge to me. Impossible, I thought at first. I write about movies for a living...
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