“Stowaway” on Netflix is a spare survival story in space, featuring four characters on a doomed mission to Mars. It’s a clever take on a familiar genre with a terrific cast — Toni Collette, Anna Kendrick, Daniel Dae Kim and Shamier Anderson — but the slow burn may be too...
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Reviews
RogerEbert.com — Voyagers
A group of gorgeous young people give into their most primal urges on a decades-long, interplanetary journey in “Voyagers.” And if that sounds like sexy “Lord of the Flies” in space, well … it is. But despite the familiar nature of the themes writer/director Neil Burger is exploring, his film...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Cosmic Sin
“Cosmic Sin” is the movie that inspired me to begin my worst-of-2021 list. It’s a cheesy, sci-fi action flick about alien zombies which isn’t even fun in a bad, B-movie sort of way. And it features yet another sleepwalking performance from Bruce Willis. My zero-star review, at RogerEbert.com. Read the...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Little Joe
“Little Joe” is a cautionary tale about a mother who’s too busy with work to notice that her teenage son has been infected by the pollen from an evil plant—a plant she designed, named after him and brought home as a gift. Actually, that description makes the movie sound far...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 9/20/19
Cheerio! The “Downton Abbey” movie is here, and we’ve broken out our fanciest hats and finest teacups to celebrate at Breakfast All Day. Alonso and I review the big-screen version of the beloved TV series — he’s a huge fan, I’d never seen a single episode — as well as Brad...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 6/14/19
“Toy Story 4” doesn’t come out until next week, but we all liked it so much that we wanted to share an early review with you on the latest Breakfast All Day. Alonso, Matt and I also review a couple of other sequels: the empty and dull “Men in Black...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 4/5/19
It’s only fitting that we’re a week late on “The Beach Bum.” Moondog can’t show up on time for anything, so why should we? Still, Alonso and I are conscientious enough to play catch up with the Matthew McConaughey stoner comedy on this week’s Breakfast All Day. We also review...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 1/18/19
It’s a veritable smorgasbord of reviews on the latest Breakfast All Day Podcast: new stuff, catch-up stuff, streaming stuff. And hey, lookie here! We’re back to discussing television, by popular demand. This week, Alonso, Matt and I review M. Night Shyamalan’s third piece in his “Unbreakable”-“Split” trilogy, “Glass,” and we...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — The Last Man
Hoo boy, is it ever January with movies like “The Last Man” coming out. Hayden Christensen broods beneath a bushy lumberjack beard as a combat veteran building a bunker to survive a prophesied apocalypse. But all is chaos, smothered in relentlessly bleak shades of gray, so it feels like the...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Venom
“Venom” isn’t quite the unmitigated disaster you’ve heard it is, but it’s also not the optimal use of its prodigious talent. Tom Hardy gives it his all, as always, in the title role as the Marvel Comics villain. (Although here, in his origin story, he’s more of an amusingly menacing...
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