How do you do, fellow kids? We’re just regular high school students like you, here to talk about the latest movies on Breakfast All Day. Alonso, Matt and I review the woefully misguided film version of the Tony-winning musical “Dear Evan Hansen” and the mawkish and metaphor-heavy dramedy “The Starling”...
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Breakfast All Day Podcast: A La Carte With David Wagner
Thirty years after we graduated from high school together, screenwriter David T. Wagner and I reconnect for my latest A La Carte interview. We go back to the beginning in Woodland Hills, Calif., and how he lived what he calls “a double life” as a child actor, which included being...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 7/26/19
It’s a hot August night in July with Quentin Tarantino’s love letter to 1969 Los Angeles, “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood.” Alonso, Matt and I naturally have lots of thoughts on the latest Breakfast All Day — Tarantino never inspires shrugs or middle-of-the road takes — and we...
Read moreMother’s Day
Open Road Films Rated PG-13 for language and some suggestive material. Running time: 118 minutes. One half star out of four. “Mother’s Day” is so terrible that it inspired me to start my list of the worst movies of 2016. January and February are traditionally dumping-ground time, so a lot...
Read moreThis Is Where I Leave You
Warner Bros. Pictures Rated R for language, sexual content and some drug use. Running time: 103 minutes. One and a half stars out of four. Mawkish, self-satisfied and false, “This Is Where I Leave You” strenuously attempts to wring poignancy from its familial clashes and catharsis. More often, it’s cringe-inducing....
Read moreRevisiting Rango
Damn, I love “Rango” so much. It is absolutely gorgeous: vividly detailed, wildly colorful and thrillingly inventive from start to finish, even as it pays homage to such classic and eclectic films as “Chinatown,” “Apocalypse Now” and Clint Eastwood’s spaghetti Westerns. I had the pleasure of revisiting the 2011 animated...
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