Spike Lee’s “Da 5 Bloods” is excellent and it’s on Netflix right now for you to watch and sink your teeth into. It’s one of several movies Alonso, Matt and I review this week on Breakfast All Day. We’re all on the same page about Lee’s latest, but we find...
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RogerEbert.com — Artemis Fowl
It took 20 years of stops and starts but the film version of the YA fantasy favorite “Artemis Fowl” is finally here, and it feels like it’s in a hurry to get it over with already. Kenneth Branagh’s film, about a 12-year-old boy who goes on an adventure in a...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 6/9/20
It’s a quick Tuesday catch-up on Breakfast All Day as Matt, Alonso and I review the films we meant to discuss last week but instead devoted an hour to Black Lives Matters protests and coronavirus news. There’s some good stuff out there: the trippy literary drama “Shirley,” which may end...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 6/5/20
It’s been a difficult week/month/year in our country and throughout the world, and we just couldn’t wrap our brains around watching movies and talking about them on the latest Breakfast All Day. It all seemed too frivolous. Instead, Alonso, Matt and I discuss the state of things — nationwide protests...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 5/29/20
It’s a crazy world we’re living in lately so we’re especially happy to see each other’s friendly faces this week on Breakfast All Day. Plus we have the added bonus of Ben joining us for Coronavirus news and a revisit of the Robert Altman 1974 classic “California Split” — which...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 5/22/20
You can’t go on vacation in real life these days but you can enjoy “The Trip to Greece,” one of many movies we review this week on Breakfast All Day. Matt, Alonso and I also discuss “The Lovebirds” with Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani, the feel-good British comedy “Military Wives,”...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 5/15/20
Zoinks! Did we ever hate “Scoob!” on this week’s Breakfast All Day. Matt, Alonso and I also review the latest Happy Madison debacle, “The Wrong Missy,” Tom Hardy’s exquisitely terrible “Capone,” the fascinating documentary “Spaceship Earth” and the well-acted indie drama “Mother’s Little Helpers.” And of course, we begin as...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 5/8/20
Like, omigod, it is so totally awesome of you to stop by the Breakfast All Day Podcast this week! Alonso, Matt and I review the musical remake of “Valley Girl” (which I wish I liked more), the documentaries “Becoming” (about Michelle Obama) and “A Secret Love” (about a longtime lesbian...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Becomimg
The Netflix documentary “Becoming” follows Michelle Obama on her nationwide book tour, as she dazzles intimate groups of young women and packed arenas of fans alike. She’s enormously charismatic and a gifted storyteller, but Nadia Hallgren’s depiction of the media-savvy former first lady isn’t quite as “unplugged” as the trailer...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 5/1/20
The band is back together! It’s been a year since we’ve all been in the same place at the same time so we are thrilled to have Ben with us this week, if briefly and remotely, on the latest Breakfast All Day. He joins us for our weekly Coronavirus update...
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