“Shazam!” is such a blast that we wanted to review it a week early. It’s one of the many films that Alonso, Matt and I discuss on the latest episode of Breakfast All Day. We also review Tim Burton’s disappointing live-action “Dumbo,” catch up with the teen weepy “Five Feet Apart,” rave...
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RogerEbert.com — Dumbo
If I’m not sobbing in a pile of tears by the end of your “Dumbo,” then you’ve done something wrong. Tim Burton’s live-action remake of the Disney animated classic feels like a stretched-thin pastiche of better Tim Burton movies. Reminders of his superior work are everywhere, from the Danny Elfman...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast: A La Carte With Kearran Giovanni
This badass right here is my latest A La Carte interview guest: Kearran Giovanni, co-star of the CW series “Black Lightning.” In reality, she couldn’t be sweeter or more generous. That’s called acting! Kearran and I have been friends for about seven years, since our kids went to pre-school together. (She...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 3/22/19
Is it really me and Matt talking about movies this week on Breakfast All Day? Or is it our evil doppelgangers? You’ll have to listen for yourselves and try to figure it out. On our latest episode, we review Jordan Peele’s follow-up to “Get Out,” the deeply creepy horror film...
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Breakfast All Day Podcast: A La Carte With Tracy Wells Tofte
These babies you see before you scarfing down cheesecake are me and one of my oldest and dearest friends, Tracy Tofte. You may know her better as Tracy Wells from when she played teenage daughter Heather Owens on “Mr. Belvedere” during the sitcom’s six-year run in the ’80s. Tracy and...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 3/15/19
It’s a sampler platter of movies this week on Breakfast All Day, from indies to foreign films, great stuff to middling stuff. A very stuffy Alonso overcomes his allergies to join me in reviews of the all-star Netflix action thriller “Triple Frontier,” the subtly powerful Chinese drama “Ash Is Purest White” (with...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Triple Frontier
An impressive, all-star cast and an acclaimed director and writer come together to create a film that’s frustratingly uneven in “Triple Frontier,” which got a theatrical run before its Netflix debut. Oscar Isaac, Ben Affleck, Charlie Hunnam, Garrett Hedlund and Pedro Pascal star as former special ops badasses who rob...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast: A La Carte With The Artist Shag
This week, I’m launching a little side podcast I’ve wanted to do for a while now. It’s called Breakfast All Day: A La Carte. I’ll be interviewing people who work in film or entertainment in some way, sometimes with the other Breakfast All Day guys joining us at the table....
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 3/7/19
We’re all searching for our inner superheroes this week on Breakfast All Day. Alonso, Matt and I review “Captain Marvel,” the first film to focus on a female character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and “Gloria Bell,” in which Julianne Moore discovers her own powers as a Los Angeles divorcee....
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Captain Marvel
I really like Brie Larson, and I really wanted to like “Captain Marvel.” The first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe with a woman at its center and a woman serving as one of its directors in Anna Boden should have been a game-changer along the lines of “Black Panther.” Instead,...
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