Rock and roll can never die here at Breakfast All Day. This week, Alonso and I review the understated yet powerful teen drama “The Fallout” on HBO Max, the enigmatic “Sundown” starring Tim Roth and Charlotte Gainsbourg, and we have an early review of Norway’s “The Worst Person in the...
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RogerEbert.com — Clean
Adrien Brody stars in “Clean” as the ironically named title character: a garbage collector with a grimy past. He also co-wrote the script, produced the film and composed the score. It’s clearly a labor of love for the Oscar winner. Brody conveys so much emotion and regret simply through his...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 1/21/22
It’s January, and the pickings are slim at the movie theater, but we’ve found some quality nuggets for you here at Breakfast All Day. This week, Alonso and I play catch-up with a few movies we’ve been meaning to discuss: Marvel’s thrilling “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,”...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Simple Passion
I remain on the Sergei Polunin beat at RogerEbert.com with my review of “Simple Passion,” in which the bad-boy ballet dancer plays an elusive Russian diplomat having a purely physical affair with a divorced Parisian professor. It’s all very torrid, but his character is intentionally vapid and boring, and the...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 1/14/22
Do you like scary movies? We’ve got one for you this week on Breakfast All Day, as Katie Walsh joins me to review the latest “Scream,” the fifth film in the meta horror franchise. Also, Alonso finally watched “Eternals,” so we catch up with Chloe Zhao’s Marvel entry, and we...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 1/7/22
Happy 2022! Things may seem uncertain so far, but we’re here for you no matter what on Breakfast All Day. Our dear friend and O.G. “What the Flick?!” co-host Ben Mankiewicz joins us to share his insights on a couple of bits of sad news: the deaths of Peter Bogdanovich...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — The 355
“The 355” amasses some of the most talented and electrifying actresses in the world, then squanders them in a generic and forgettable action picture. It would seem impossible to make a boring spy movie starring Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong’o, Diane Kruger and Penelope Cruz, but Simon Kinberg managed to do...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Marvel Mondays: Spider-Man: No Way Home
We couldn’t let the year end without one final Marvel Monday episode of Breakfast All Day. Nic and I have a lengthy discussion about “Spider-Man: Far From Home,” which we both loved — so it’s kinda like I made my kid do work over winter break, but not really. We...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Parallel Mothers
That magical connection between Pedro Almodovar and Penelope Cruz continues to grow stronger and burn brighter with “Parallel Mothers,” their eighth film together over the past quarter century. The Spanish maestro knows precisely how to get all the colors out of his charismatic muse, and in turn, the veteran star...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 12/22/21
We’re back in the Matrix this week on Breakfast All Day — but did we ever really leave? Alonso and I review “The Matrix Resurrections,” the fourth film in the franchise, on this final episode of 2021. We also review Joel Coen’s avant-garde “The Tragedy of Macbeth” and Pedro Almodovar’s...
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