We loved “Thor: Ragnarok,” which makes the letdown of “Thor: Love and Thunder” that much more of a bummer. Alonso and I have a Breakfast All Day review of this wildly uneven MCU extravaganza. In news, we discuss the career of James Caan, who died at 82; the #Gentleminion backlash;...
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Breakfast All Day Podcast 1/21/22
It’s January, and the pickings are slim at the movie theater, but we’ve found some quality nuggets for you here at Breakfast All Day. This week, Alonso and I play catch-up with a few movies we’ve been meaning to discuss: Marvel’s thrilling “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,”...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Marvel Mondays: Spider-Man: No Way Home
We couldn’t let the year end without one final Marvel Monday episode of Breakfast All Day. Nic and I have a lengthy discussion about “Spider-Man: Far From Home,” which we both loved — so it’s kinda like I made my kid do work over winter break, but not really. We...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Marvel Mondays — Eternals
It’s been a little while, but Nicolas and I are back with another Marvel Mondays episode of Breakfast All Day. This time we take on “Eternals,” and we have mixed feelings about it. Nic and I discuss how uniquely beautiful director and co-writer Chloe Zhao‘s film is and how exciting...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Eternals
Director Chloe Zhao applies her distinctive aesthetic imprint to “Eternals,” but she can only do so much to bend the Marvel Cinematic Universe to her will. The result is a blockbuster of unusual gentle beauty that also strains to fulfill the gargantuan requirements of a massive action spectacle. My mixed...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Venom: Let There Be Carnage
As you surely can tell from this photo, “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” is insane — but that’s what makes it such a superior sequel. It’s as if everyone involved realized that the silliness was the strength of the 2018 original and leaned into that, hard. I laughed a lot...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Marvel Mondays: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
It’s been a couple of months, but we’re back with another Marvel Mondays episode on Breakfast All Day. This time, Nic and I play catch-up with “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” which has been out for a couple of weekends so we do get spoilery. You’ve been...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Marvel Mondays: Black Widow
Six months later, we’ve reached the end of our Marvel Mondays journey on Breakfast All Day with our discussion of “Black Widow” — unless I make Nicolas watch “Howard the Duck,” which some folks have requested. This week, Nic and I talk about what a badass Scarlett Johansson is, how...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 7/9/21
We’re definitely in summer now with the release of the long-awaited blockbuster “Black Widow.” Matt, Alonso and I have a Breakfast All Day review of Scarlett Johansson’s standalone superhero movie, which originally was scheduled to come out in May 2020. Now, you can see it in theaters or at home...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Marvel Mondays: Captain Marvel
Tie a flannel around your waist, pump up the Garbage and conjure your angstiest ’90s mood for “Captain Marvel” (2019). This week on Marvel Mondays, Nicolas and I discuss the nostalgia of Carol Danvers crash landing into a Blockbuster Video store, her meeting up with a young Nick Fury and...
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