Is awards season over yet? It seems to just keep going and going, but the end is in sight with this weekend’s Academy Awards ceremony. Alonso, Matt, Ben and I run through who we think will win and should win the Oscar in various categories, with “Roma” and Alfonso Cuaron among the...
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Breakfast All Day Podcast
Breakfast All Day Podcast 2/15/19
We are your valentine and so much more on this jammed episode of Breakfast All Day. Alonso, Ben, Matt and I are together again — three weeks in a row! — with reviews of the sci-fi extravaganza “Alita: Battle Angel,” the horror-comedy sequel “Happy Death Day 2U” and the extremely...
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Breakfast All Day Podcast — 2019 Oscar Nominations
It’s Hollywood’s biggest morning, if you’re into that kind of thing. Alonso and I break down all of the Academy Award nominations, both the ones we’re excited about and the ones we would’ve liked to have seen. “The Favourite” and “Roma” led all nominees with 10 apiece, which we were...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 1/10/19
That sound you hear is January movies slowly trying to kill us. This week on Breakfast All Day, Alonso, Matt and I review the painfully feel-good comedy “The Upside” and the shamelessly heart-tugging drama “A Dog’s Way Home.” We also play catch-up with “Bird Box” on Netflix and try to...
Read moreWhat the Flick?! Podcast 12/7/18
We — and by that I mean The Royal We — have a great cross-section of movies to talk about this week on the What the Flick?! Podcast. First off, Alonso, Matt and I review “Mary Queen of Scots,” with a pair of powerhouse performances from Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie....
Read moreWhat the Flick?! Podcast 9/6/18
Our second What the Flick?! podcast episode begins with the sad news that Burt Reynolds — one-of-a-kind, swaggering Hollywood superstar — has died at 82. Alonso Duralde and I discuss his legendary career, as well as the movies Alonso saw at the Venice Film Festival and further changes at the Academy...
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 moreOscar Picks 2016
I realize I said this last year. But it really could go a few different ways at the Academy Awards, at least in the best-picture category. That makes things kind of fun — even though I know my pick for the best movie of the year won’t take home the...
Read moreOscar Nominations 2016
So it’s Oscar nomination day, an annual event I always looked forward to back when I had a day job. The announcement comes super-early — 5:38 a.m. Pacific time, to be exact, all the better to take advantage of morning TV news programs — but everyone’s in a good mood...
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