Breakfast All Day movie reviews

We've never had a production designer on Breakfast All Day A La Carte , so it was a blast chatting with  Jake Tremblay  (not to be confused with  the kid from "Room" ). Jake has worked on several commercials and music videos and is now moving into feature films. He talks about growing up with a devoutly Roman Catholic family in  small-town New Hampshire;  being  homeschooled  by his mom until eigh...

Documentary filmmaker  Janice Engel  is the director and producer of  "Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins." She's a really cool woman who made a movie about a really cool woman, and Christy was so happy to chat with her for the latest A La Carte. Janice talks about growing up in Massapequa on Long Island, New York , where her father fostered her early love of classic movies; how  curios...

We can feel you watching us — or at least listening to us — on Breakfast All Day. This week, Christy, Alonso and Matt review the surprisingly excellent "The Invisible Man" and we play a bunch of catch up with "Sonic the Hedgehog," "Call of the Wild," "Emma." and "Seberg." And for our Patreon subscribers , we recap this week's episodes of "The Outsider" and "McMillions" on HBO, plus we have our lat...

Indie film producer Jeff Culotta  has had a truly singular path, which ranges from Lawrence Welk to Richard Kelly to Bobcat Goldthwait, and we get to all of it on this week's  A La Carte . Jeff discusses growing up in  Abilene, Texas , and rebelling against his Air Force colonel father; moving to Austin, where the  South by Southwest  festival became a huge influence on the path he'd follow; then...

It's a short but semi-sweet week on Breakfast All Day . Christy's out sick so it's just Alonso and Matt, slogging their way through a catch-up review of the terrible film version of "Fantasy Island." On the bright side, though, we also chat about the delightful sequel "A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon," which you can enjoy right now on Netflix. And over at our Patreon , we discuss the latest e...

Morgan Patterson  is a longtime  location manager  who has worked on such varied films as  "Top Gun: Maverick," "Ford v Ferrari," "Iron Man 3," "The Nice Guys"  and  "Death at a Funeral."  He talks all about the juggling his job requires on the latest A La Carte conversation. Morgan discusses growing up in  Westchester County  north of New York City with parents who were immigrants from  South Afr...

Love is in the air this Valentine's Day weekend, and we're all swooning for the romantic drama  "The Photograph" on Breakfast All Day. Christy, Alonso and Matt also review "Downhill,"  the English-language remake of  "Force Majeure,"  which is a huge disappointment;  "To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You,"  the sequel to the charming Netflix hit  "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" ; and  "Portr...

Spectrum News 1 host  Alex Cohen  has lived a crazy life, from radio to roller derby and everything in between, and she talks about all of it on the latest  A La Carte  conversation. Alex discusses growing up in the hills of  Los Angeles in the '70s  surrounded by parents who taught transcendental meditation, filmmakers and musicians; attending fine arts boarding school with  plans to become an ac...

Get your mallets out and take a swing with us this week on Breakfast All Day . Christy, Matt and Alonso review "Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)," which is a complete blast; "The Lodge," which is moody but perhaps not as effectively creepy as "Goodnight Mommy"; the Netflix documentary "Taylor Swift: Miss Americana," which we all enjoyed way more than we'd expect...

Cinematographer Benjamin Kasulke has had a prolific career, with films including "Safety Not Guaranteed," "Your Sister's Sister," "Laggies" and "The Off Hours." So we had a ton to talk about on the latest A La Carte conversation. Ben discusses growing up in Saranac Lake in far upstate New York, the video store and the boarding school that shaped his early tastes, studying film at Ithaca College ,...

It's Super Bowl weekend, which is traditionally a pretty quiet time at the movies. The main one opening this week is the Blake Lively action thriller  "The Rhythm Section," which Alonso, Matt and Christy review on the latest episode of Breakfast All Day . We also play catch-up with  "The Two Popes"  because we realized it was the main Oscar nominee we hadn't discussed yet (and you can watch it, as...

Vincent Grashaw  is a talented and busy filmmaker who's currently in post-production on his third feature,  "What Josiah Saw."  So it was nice to have a chance to sit down with him for the first time in a while for this A La Carte conversation. Vince discusses growing up in the  San Fernando Valley  (including the Northridge earthquake), making his own  movies and music videos  with friends as a t...

Stylish criminals and ghosts -- as well as a talking monkey who sounds an awful lot like David Lynch -- join us this week on Breakfast All Day . Matt, Alonso and Christy review Guy Ritchie's star-studded crime comedy "The Gentlemen" and the Gothic horror adaptation "The Turning." We also catch up with the haunting Senegalese drama "Atlantics" and a delightfully strange David Lynch short called "Wh...

  TV news anchor and reporter Courtney Friel has been sober for over a decade, and she's telling her story in a new book as well as here on Breakfast All Day A La Carte. Courtney discusses getting  drunk for the first time at 15 , beginning her  cocaine use in college , finally going to  rehab  and how she  stays sober , even through some of the hardest times of her life. She also discusses her ca...

Robert Downey Jr. talks to the animals in "Dolittle" ... but should he? We're still trying to figure out what we just saw on the latest episode of Breakfast All Day . It's a truly strange film and a bit of a disaster, but not even in an interesting way like "Cats." We also discuss the re-teaming of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in "Bad Boys for Life" (including a brief spoiler talk from 24:46 to...

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 — of course — movies, with a rocket-scientist father who was a huge influence. He talks about studying...

We are very much in January on Breakfast All Day with reviews of some mediocre-to-terrible films. But Matt, Alonso and Christy also find time to catch up with a couple of movies that came out at the tail end of last year that are worthwhile. We review "Underwater"  — which is essentially "Alien" in the ocean — as well as the raunchy R-rated comedy  "Like a Boss."  We also discuss the death row dra...

Robin Sax  wears many hats, brilliantly and stylishly. She's a lawyer, author, media expert, mediator and clinical therapist, and she talks about all of those varied careers — and how she blends them together now to make a difference in the world — on the latest Breakfast All Day A La Carte. Robin discusses growing up in  Los Angeles (she and Christy were born the same year in the same hospital),...

It's a brand new year! So Alonso and Christy are kicking off 2020 with a look back at the 10 best and worst movies of 2019 . And since it's also the start of a new decade, we reflect on our  favorite films of the 2010s  as well as those that didn't quite work out so well. Many of them are so terrible, they absolutely must be experienced. And over at our  Patreon , we discuss the state of awards se...

Kevin Noel  is the  senior vice president of production for Sony Pictures Animation.  But the story of how he reached that impressive level provides a helpful road map for folks trying to break into the industry on the latest Breakfast All Day A La Carte. Kevin discusses growing up skateboarding and making movies in sleepy  Santa Barbara , studying film at  San Francisco State University , his ear...

We're so happy to be with you one last time before 2019 ends to bring you reviews of two of the year's best films (as well as a follow-up discussion on one of the worst). Alonso, Matt and Christy discuss Greta Gerwig's excellent adaptation of "Little Women"  and Sam Mendes' harrowing World War I drama  "1917."  We also dip our paws back into the continuing saga of  "Cats,"  a movie we'll talk abou...

We're so proud of  April Wolfe , our former fellow film-critic-turned-screenwriter whose horror movie, "Black Christmas," is in theaters now. April talks with Christy and Alonso about growing up in conservative Grand Rapids, Michigan , her Catholic upbringing and the  family bar  where she worked, her  early horror influences  and how she got her start as a writer, the  women's wrestling troupe  s...

It's a week of extravagant and insane spectacles on  Breakfast All Day , and we are here for all of it. Alonso, Matt and Christy had way too much fun reviewing the truly bizarre, star-studded musical "Cats" as well as the movie we've all been waiting a lifetime to see, "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker."  We spend a lot of time on this one, since it's theoretically the end of the franchise (or at...

Longtime  "Extra" TV producer and music correspondent   Adam Weissler  has interviewed every musician and band imaginable. (He's chatting with Depeche Mode lead singer Dave Gahan in the photo above.) And he was nice enough to take time out of his busy schedule to discuss his career and his lifelong love of music on this week's Breakfast All Day A La Carte. Adam talks about growing up in the  San F...

Mid-December means family-friendly crowd pleasers and thought-provoking awards contenders, and we've got 'em all at Breakfast All Day. Alonso, Matt and Christy review the action sequel "Jumanji: The Next Level,"  the Fox News drama  "Bombshell"  and Clint Eastwood's  "Richard Jewell," and we catch up with Trey Edward Shults' powerfully-acted "Waves." And over at our Patreon, we recap the latest ep...