Breakfast All Day movie reviews

Independent film producer John Lang  and Christy have lots of Texas connections in common, so they had a great time reminiscing in this sprawling Breakfast All Day A La Carte interview. John talks about growing up in suburban  Dallas during peak '90s Cowboys , studying at the  University of Texas  where he learned from  indie film guru John Pierson , and getting his start on film sets in Los Angel...

Like the members of the Losers Club, we're all together again after being away from each for a little while on Breakfast All Day. Alonso , Christy and Matt review the thrilling, sprawling horror sequel "It Chapter Two"  and the Korean-American indie drama "Ms. Purple," and we play catch-up with "The Peanut Butter Falcon," since at least a couple of us had seen it and so many of you expressed inter...

Dan Shaughnessy  is a legendary sportswriter, author and a member of the  Baseball Hall of Fame . He's also a really old friend of Christy's, someone she and her family stay with whenever they're in Boston, which they did recently. This time, she also had the pleasure of sitting down with him for a Breakfast All Day A La Carte conversation about his lengthy and storied career. Dan talks about grow...

Summer is over but we're here to provide a ray of sunshine with the Breakfast All Day Podcast. This week, it's just Christy and  Matt  — Alonso is away covering the Venice Film Festival — and Matt was nice enough to drive down to see Christy and play catch-up with some recent movies. We discuss the Gerard Butler action thriller  "Angel Has Fallen,"  which was No. 1 at the box office last weekend;...

Julian Higgins  is a wise, talented filmmaker beyond his years. He's also a newly minted  Academy member,  so now he gets to use his great taste for the greater good. He and Christy talk about growing up among academics in  New Hampshire , the  movies he made as a kid , studying at the  American Film Institute  in Los Angeles and his excellent 2015 short  "Winter Light,"  which landed on the Oscar...

Jennie Morris  is one of Christy's absolute best friends in the world, someone she's known since they were 6 years old. But Christy had the pleasure of discovering her all over again in this Breakfast All Day A La Carte conversation. Jennie is a longtime TV executive who currently has a key role in launching  WarnerMedia's  new streaming service  HBO Max . But we go back to the beginning, talking...

Christy's on vacation, and Matt and Alonso got their schedules so totally out of whack that the only new movie they've both seen is the horrifyingly funny hide-and-seek comedy READY OR NOT. And whether you're ready or not, here we come with our review. And if you join us at Patreon , you can hear us discuss new trailers like LITTLE WOMEN, PARASITE and LAST CHRISTMAS.

James Boyd  is a guru of low-budget, do-it-yourself filmmaking. He's also an old friend of Christy's who shares a love of movies, so it was great to reconnect after nearly 30 years for this Breakfast All Day A La Carte conversation. Jim discusses his early interest in film  growing up in Texas,  moving out to  Los Angeles  to pursue his dreams of working in the industry and launching the all-digit...

The dog days of summer are definitely here at the Breakfast All Day Podcast. Alonso, Matt and Christy have a mixed bag of movies this week, from the wildly terrible crime drama  "The Kitchen"  to the mawkish and cloying  "The Art of Racing in the Rain"  to the family comedy  "Dora and the Lost City of Gold,"  which is a lot more fun than you'd probably expect from a live-action "Dora the Explorer"...

Screenwriter and Emerson College professor  Weiko Lin  joins Christy this week for a wide-ranging, high-energy Breakfast All Day A La Carte conversation. Weiko talks about  emigrating to the United States from Taiwan  with his mom and siblings when he was 8, the early influence of  '80s pop culture  and the power of seeing people who looked like him in  Ang Lee's "The Wedding Banquet."  He discuss...

Summer is winding down and that means we're finally (hopefully) reaching the last of the big, dumb blockbusters here at  Breakfast All Day . And  "Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw"  has got to be the biggest and dumbest of all, so naturally  Matt ,  Alonso  and Christy have some thoughts. We also talk about the excellent indie drama  "Luce,"  the nap-inducing  "The Mountain"  starring Jeff Go...

Here's a special midweek nugget for you: a recap of the latest episode of "The Handmaid's Tale," which Alonso and Christy had the pleasure of discussing in front of a live audience at Outfest over the weekend. And was there ever a lot to discuss in Season 3 Episode 11, "Liars." This is the kind of extra-special content subscribers to our Patreon  receive, but we wanted to share it with the world t...

Daryl Evans  is essentially the ambassador for the  Los Angeles Kings . The former Kings legend and  longtime radio color commentator  for the team was gracious enough to sit down with me for this wide-ranging and very different Breakfast All Day A La Carte interview. Daryl talks about growing up in  Toronto , how he got his start in hockey,  playing in the NHL  and the famous game-winning playoff...

It's a hot August night in July with Quentin Tarantino's love letter to 1969 Los Angeles,  "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood."   Alonso ,  Matt  and Christy naturally have lots of thoughts on the latest  Breakfast All Day  — Tarantino never inspires shrugs or middle-of-the road takes — and we suspect you will, too. We also review  "Skin,"  starring Jamie Bell in the true story of a white supremac...

Sandy Cohen  and Christy spent years together in the trenches covering entertainment for  The Associated Press , and Christy feels so lucky that they're still friends years after they've both left. Sandy has lots of great stories to tell from her time interviewing celebrities — which began with  Elizabeth Taylor  her first day on the job — but she also discusses growing up in the Southern Californ...

We couldn't let  "Crawl"  slink away from us without talking about it on Breakfast All Day.  Alonso ,  Matt  and Christy play catch-up this week with the supremely schlocky thriller, which weirdly wasn't screened for critics before opening day. We also review Lynn Shelton's largely improvised indie comedy  "Sword of Trust,"  which features a great Marc Maron performance. As a little bonus, we give...

Melvin Robert  has lived many lives for a man in his mid-30s:  educator ,  musical theater performer  and now  television anchor  for  Spectrum News 1  here in Southern California. That's how Christy knows him — he also hosts  "The SoCal Scene"  on the channel, a show for which she's a correspondent. But it was so much fun to sit down with him outside the studio for this wide-ranging Breakfast All...

Can you feel the love tonight? We're not exactly feeling it in our early review of  "The Lion King."   Matt is back from vacation in Hawaii so he's joined Christy and  Alonso  for the latest episode of Breakfast All Day. Besides the latest Disney live-action re-do, we also have reviews of Lulu Wang's excellent family drama  "The Farewell"  and the idiotic mismatched-buddy comedy  "Stuber,"  which...

There's 104 days of summer vacation — give or take — and Christy got to spend one of them with "Phineas and Ferb"  star  Vincent Martella . She's been a fan of his voice work as Phineas Flynn on the animated Disney series for years, thanks to her son introducing her to it, so she was thrilled when he agreed to be her guest on  Breakfast All Day A La Carte.  Vince and Christy talk about  how he got...

LaToya Morgan  is a longtime TV writer and producer whose work includes  "Shameless," "Parenthood"  and  "Into the Badlands."  She's also a cool, smart, funny woman in general, so Christy is thrilled that she took the time to chat with her for this A La Carte episode. LaToya talks about growing up in a diverse section of  South Los Angeles , a part of town that's changing through gentrification; h...

Summer is heating up and so is Breakfast All Day, with early reviews of two hotly anticipated movies: the sequel  "Spider-Man: Far From Home"  and  "Midsommar,"  Ari Aster's follow-up to "Hereditary."  Alonso ,  Matt  and Christy also review the Beatles musical comedy  "Yesterday"  and  "Annabelle Comes Home,"  the latest creepy doll flick from the "Conjure"-verse. And over at our Patreon , we dis...

Jeffrey McHale's   "Showgirls"  documentary, the brilliantly titled  "You Don't Nomi,"  will make you reassess how you feel about the so-bad-it's-good classic. You may decide that it's legitimately good, if not great. McHale spoke with Christy and  Alonso  about his upbringing in  Troy, Michigan , studying film at  Chicago's Columbia College,  meeting his  husband  and moving to Los Angeles to beg...

A couple different talking-toy movies are opening this weekend, so make sure you choose wisely when you're with your family at the multiplex. We did an early review of  "Toy Story 4"  on last week's Breakfast All Day. This week,  Alonso ,  Matt  and Christy review the latest incarnation of Chucky in  "Child's Play."  We also discuss the documentary  "Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am,"  about the Nob...

Ashly Stohl  and Christy have known each other since the sixth grade, but they've had the pleasure of becoming even better friends as adults — and watching their kids become friends, too. And her kids happen to be her muses, providing the inspiration for the brilliant  photographer  she's become. (You can see an example of her work, which is featured in  her new book "The Days & Years,"  above.) A...

"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 Christy also review a couple of other sequels: the empty and dull  "Men in Black International"  and yet another  "Shaft,"  starring three generations of the iconic blaxploitation character in one of the year's worst fil...