We are shiny and chrome this week on Breakfast All Day for so many reasons. First, Alonso and I have a Tuesday news drop, including early reviews of “The Batman,” Screen Actors Guild award winners, Sam Elliott trashing “The Power of the Dog,” #OscarsFanFavorite and more. With “The Batman” opening...
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Breakfast All Day Podcast 2/7/19
Everything is cool when you’re part of a team, especially when that team is the Breakfast All Day Podcast. For the second week in a row, Alonso, Ben, Matt and I all made it to the table. We talk about the high-energy “The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part,” the...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part
It falls just short of awesome, but “The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part” is still pretty good. Crammed with colorful characters and self-aware pop culture reference, it’s high-energy and a ton of fun. Nothing could compare to the original “LEGO Movie,” though, which I gave four stars and placed...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Show Dogs
I’m no film snob. I’m down for a good live-action, talking-animal movie, and it doesn’t even need to be something Oscar-worthy like “Babe.” But “Show Dogs” is terrible. It’s essentially “Miss Congeniality” in the dog show world, with cheesy visual effects, hackneyed gross-out gags for the kids and lame jokes...
Read moreTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Paramount Pictures Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action violence. Running time: 101 minutes. One and a half stars out of four. “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” is a reboot of the franchise that began with comic books and morphed into television shows and films and general pop-culture ubiquity in the late ’80s...
Read moreWhat the Flick?! — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Our viewers are extremely angry about our review of the TMNT reboot, it seems....
Read moreThe Lego Movie
Warner Bros. PG for mild action and rude humor. Running time: 100 minutes. Four stars out of four. “The Lego Movie”: Merely a great film, or the greatest film ever in the history of cinema? I asked this question — jokingly, rhetorically — during our What the Flick?! review, but...
Read moreWhat the Flick?! — The Lego Movie
Matt and I are seriously in love with “The Lego Movie.” In many ways, it’s actually better suited for adults than it is for kids. The animated comedy is consistently high-spirited and hilarious but also profoundly emotional in a surprising way. Alonso, meanwhile, wasn’t quite so wild about it. You...
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