Breakfast All Day Podcast

Breakfast All Day Podcast 1/24/19

January is really Januarying this week on the Breakfast All Day Podcast. Alonso and I try to describe to you the insanely awful (and just plain insane) neo-noir “Serenity,” starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway, without spoiling its major twists. We also review the surprisingly fun “The Kid Who Would Be...

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Breakfast All Day Podcast 1/18/19

It’s a veritable smorgasbord of reviews on the latest Breakfast All Day Podcast: new stuff, catch-up stuff, streaming stuff. And hey, lookie here! We’re back to discussing television, by popular demand. This week, Alonso, Matt and I review M. Night Shyamalan’s third piece in his “Unbreakable”-“Split” trilogy, “Glass,” and we...

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What the Flick?! Podcast 11/16/18

It’s a jam-packed week on the What the Flick?! Podcast, and not just because of the prodigious casts in this week’s new movies. Alonso and I review the excellent heist thriller “Widows,” the so-so Harry Potter prequel “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” and the feel-good drama “Green Book.” We also discuss...

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RogerEbert.com — Reprisal

“Reprisal” is a blandly gritty piece of late-August mayhem that’s as forgettable as its generic title. I’m actually sort of amazed that it got a theatrical release at all. Perhaps this empty crime thriller is only seeing the light of day because of the presence of Bruce Willis, who basically...

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RogerEbert.com — Searching

“Searching” is predicated on a central gimmick — it takes place entirely within the screens of electronic devices — but it pulls it off in exciting and inventive ways. John Cho gets to show great range — and is often shot in close-up, so there’s nowhere to hide — as...

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Christy by Request — Razorback

“Razorback” had so much potential. It’s a grungy ’80s exploitation film about a ravenous boar rampaging across the Australian outback, devouring anyone who has the misfortune of being in its path. I’d never seen (or even heard of) this unabashed B-movie before it came up this past weekend as the...

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Christy by Request — Body Double

“Body Double” is Brian De Palma’s Alfred Hitchcock movie, with clearly affectionate references to “Rear Window,” “Vertigo” and other classics scattered liberally about. But it’s also every bit a De Palma film in the vein of the director’s “Carrie,” “Dressed to Kill” and “Scarface,” with all of its fascinating contradictions....

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