During these insane times, it feels so good to laugh, and we did a lot of that this week on Breakfast All Day. Alonso, Matt and I have one of our most spirited arguments in a while over Adam Sandler’s latest Netflix comedy, “Hubie Halloween.” We also disagree on just...
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RogerEbert.com — The War With Grandpa
What were these people thinking? That’s the question I asked myself over and over again while watching “The War with Grandpa,” a straining family comedy featuring the wildly overqualified Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Christopher Walken, Cheech Marin and Jane Seymour. No one needs a paycheck this badly. This goes...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 10/2/20
What a year the past couple of days have been. We have an insane amount of news for you on the latest episode of Breakfast All Day, including President Trump and many others in his orbit testing positive for coronavirus and the massive fallout that’s ensued. But we are a...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — The Glorias
Gloria Steinem has lived such a long and significant life that it takes four actresses to play her—including two Oscar winners—in “The Glorias.” That device of having multiple performers portray the veteran journalist and activist, and sometimes even having them engage in conversations with each other, is the most effective...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 9/25/20
We loved the strange, sweet and singular “Kajillionaire,” one of several movies we review this week on Breakfast All Day. Besides Miranda July’s latest, Matt, Alonso and I discuss the Netflix adventure “Enola Holmes,” with its radiant lead performance from Millie Bobby Brown, and “Misbehaviour,” based on the true story...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Enola Holmes
Millie Bobby Brown is radiant and charismatic in “Enola Holmes,” in which she stars as the younger sister of the famous detective, Sherlock. All the poise and presence we saw in her over the past three seasons of “Stranger Things” are there, only now she gets to be a kid...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 9/18/20
It’s a week of heavy emotions on Breakfast All Day — and we recorded this episode before the tragic news broke of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing. But Alonso, Matt and I do have film reviews for you of the ambitious but deeply misguided “Antebellum,” the sprawling, Southern...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Antebellum
“Antebellum” has aspirations of mind-blowing narrative complexity along the lines of an M. Night Shyamalan movie, but instead leaves you stunned in a WTF-did-I-just-watch sort of daze. And not in an enjoyable way, as in the committed craziness of “Serenity,” for example. Janelle Monae is radiant and charismatic as always,...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 9/11/20
The world is on fire — literally — but we’re here to protect you, or at least distract you, at Breakfast All Day. On our latest episode, Matt, Alonso and I review the completely charming romantic comedy “The Broken Hearts Gallery,” the Helen Reddy biopic “I Am Woman,” the enlightening...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Coastal Elites
“Coastal Elites” is the very definition of preaching to the choir. A series of five monologues originally intended for the New York stage, this HBO production gently satirizes a very specific type of liberal American trying to navigate the daily outrage of living through the Trump administration. There’s a lot...
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