It’s Timothee Chalamet Week on Breakfast All Day. He’s at the center of two giant movies with ridiculously packed casts of superstars and character actors alike. First, Alonso and I review Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” — or at least, part one of “Dune” — which we watched under extremely different conditions....
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Breakfast All Day Podcast 11/7/19
We’ll give you our hearts this Christmas and every Christmas here at the Breakfast All Day Podcast. Alonso, Matt and I discuss the George Michael-inspired romantic comedy “Last Christmas,” which fell shy of our high expectations; “Doctor Sleep,” the hit-and-miss sequel to “The Shining”; and the devastating drama “Marriage Story.”...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 1/24/19
January is really Januarying this week on the Breakfast All Day Podcast. Alonso and I try to describe to you the insanely awful (and just plain insane) neo-noir “Serenity,” starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway, without spoiling its major twists. We also review the surprisingly fun “The Kid Who Would Be...
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...
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