Box office guru Paul Dergarabedian is incredibly knowledgable about film, of course, but also a variety of other topics as you’ll hear in our wide-ranging Breakfast All Day A La Carte interview. Paul discusses growing up on the Palos Verdes Peninsula with an early love of music, fast cars and...
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Breakfast All Day Podcast: A La Carte With Jamielyn Lippman
Filmmaker and fellow mom Jamielyn Lippman is my Breakfast All Day A La Carte guest this week — and she’s the rare friend of mine outside the critic world who sees as much as I do. Jamielyn talks about growing up in a big, close family in suburban Santa Clarita...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast: A La Carte With Matt Sayles
Matt Sayles is a brilliant photographer with an inspired eye and a drive to depict his subjects in thought-provoking ways. We talk about his varied career, which includes shooting photos of every A-list star imaginable, on the latest Breakfast All Day A La Carte. Matt discusses growing up in Los...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast: A La Carte With Madeleine Brand
One of my favorite jobs of the many jobs I do is going on KCRW’s “Press Play” to talk movies on Friday mornings with the great Madeleine Brand. This time, I got to turn the tables and ask her the questions. Eventually we will have a conversation that doesn’t involve...
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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 moreChristy by Request — Body Double
“Body Double” is Brian De Palma’s Alfred Hitchcock movie, with clearly affectionate references to “Rear Window,” “Vertigo” and other classics scattered liberally about. But it’s also every bit a De Palma film in the vein of the director’s “Carrie,” “Dressed to Kill” and “Scarface,” with all of its fascinating contradictions....
Read moreChristy by Request — Who Framed Roger Rabbit
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” — probably since it came out 30 years ago. I fondly recall watching it with my dad at the now-defunct UA Warner Center in Woodland Hills, the location of so many of my Valley Girl movie memories. But...
Read moreWine the Flick?! — The Disaster Artist
“The Disaster Artist” is a good movie about a bad movie. So naturally I had to ask my filmmaker friend Jamielyn Lippman, who loves movies and wine as much as I do, to join me at the ArcLight Hollywood for the latest episode of Wine the Flick?! Jamielyn is a former...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — The Hero
Sam Elliott is Sam Elliott as Sam Elliott in “The Hero,” a sentimental and sporadically effective celebration of the veteran character actor. Director and co-writer Brett Haley is clearly aware that this dude is iconic, placing Elliott front and center for a rare leading role. But while it’s a pleasure...
Read moreHail, Caesar!
Universal Pictures Rated PG-13 for some suggestive content and smoking. Running time: 106 minutes. Three stars out of four. The Coen brothers — my favorite filmmakers, I should mention at the outset — have always been hit-and-miss when it comes to straight-up comedies. For every “Raising Arizona” or “The Big...
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