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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Breakfast All Day Podcast
RogerEbert.com — Lazy Susan
Sean Hayes stars as the title character in “Lazy Susan” — a frumpy, stunted woman — and co-wrote the script that follows her as she stumbles out of her self-absorbed shell and into the harsh daylight of the real world. Theoretically, he has some affection for this character. And yet...
Read more10 Worst Films of 2018
It’s been a year of changes around here, but it has remained a pleasure and a source of pride to be able to review films for a living. I still have six jobs and I have no job, as I like to say — it’s just that those jobs sometimes...
Read moreWhat the Flick?! Podcast 9/21/18
Alonso and I are here to invite you to join our girl gang on the latest episode of the What the Flick?! Podcast. We review the ultra-stylish, ultra-violent “Assassination Nation,” the latest ambitious, angry Michael Moore documentary “Fahrenheit 11/9,” Eli Roth’s family horror flick “The House With a Clock in Its Walls” and...
Read moreOscar Picks 2018
Apparently, I didn’t do any Oscar picks last year. Just straight-up blew it off. Unless maybe I did try to make the impossible choice between whether “La La Land” or “Moonlight” should win best picture, and what I wrote just evaporated into the ether. Either way, I’m back with some...
Read moreOscar Nominations 2018
It’s felt like a pretty wide-open awards season so far, but this morning’s Oscar nominations helped it take some shape — “The Shape of Water,” that is. (Yes, I hate myself, too, for that pun.) But Guillermo del Toro’s dark and swoony retro romance becomes even more of the favorite...
Read more10 Best Films of 2017
Narrowing down the best films of the year to just 10 is always a daunting process. There have been so many great movies this year, and I’ve had the opportunity to see a lot more of them than usual as a member of a couple different award committees and, of...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — I, Tonya
As a (wannabe) figure skater, I was already predisposed to liking “I, Tonya.” But I was blown away by how surprisingly powerful and poignant it was. It’s “GoodFellas” on ice: darkly comic and often just plain dark, but always breathtakingly alive. Margot Robbie is heartbreaking as the disgraced skater and Allison...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — The Girl on the Train
The book wasn’t great. It was solid trash — a juicy page turner. The movie version isn’t even that. It’s a surprisingly flat and suspense-free tale of pretty people in peril. Emily Blunt gives it her all, though, as the title character: a damaged woman on a misguided quest for...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
It’s essentially “Groundhog Day” meets “X-Men.” But really, Tim Burton’s latest fantasy adventure is much more complicated than that, with a dense mythology and overly explanatory dialogue that may leave you wondering what you’d just seen. The costumes are gorgeous, though. My RogerEbert.com review. Read the review here...
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