Popcorn for Breakfast

Okay, let’s get weird. This week’s headlines aren’t the barnburners we usually focus on in What’s Poppin’, but each one is interesting by its own merit. After all, any time the name Denzel Washington appears on a cast list, we are there! Also, an under-the-radar move at Marvel Studios Monday may be an indicator of what’s going on behind the scenes at the house of mouse. We’ve also got new details...

Let’s (ghost)face it. We were all pretty much in the same place before this movie came out. Scream 6? In New York? How much longer can they really keep this going? These are fair questions! But the only way to learn the answers is to see the movie, for better or worse. So, that’s what we did! In our Scream VI review, we discuss whether they’ve successfully sequeled the re-quel or not, how it felt...

The 95th Oscars are officially in the rearview so we are going to use this opportunity to close the book on the Oscars by giving our opinions on the show, the winners, the loasers, and whether or not the Academy got it right. After that, we turn our attention to the current year in film and those soon to come. Some HUGE news stories dropped this week including Quentin Tarantino’s 10th (and likely...

IT’S OSCAR WEEK!!! It has all built up to this. We watched hundreds of movies this past year and reviewed many of them right here on Popcorn for Breakfast. But now, it is time for Hollywood’s biggest night, the 95th Academy Awards. As with any Oscars show, there are so many storylines and tons of hotly-contested categories. In our Oscars 2023 Preview, we break down all the biggest awards, who shou...

Since it burst onto the scene in 2015, the Creed franchise has cemented itself as one of the best cases for legacy sequels (or “re-quels”) to date. 8 years later, we’ve arrived at Creed III. All the trailers and promotional materials for this film present it as the first Creed film to break free of the Rocky franchise and, for better or worse, chart its own path. From the addition of the burgeonin...

Cocaine. Not usually something to joke about. But a black bear eating/snorting multiple kilos of cocaine and then going on a killing spree? You may be on to something. The subject of this week’s review is Elizabeth Banks’ Cocaine Bear. This film presents itself as a self-aware, horror-comedy B movie with a premise the speaks for itself. But whether it lives up to the hype and its own premise or no...

Our next installment in our Best Picture Nominee Review series is here! The subject of this week’s review is The Banshees of Inisherin, a film that is nominated for a whopping 9 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Director, and 4 Acting Nominations. Writer-Director Martin McDonagh has a sterling portfolio of films and plays and The Banshees of Inisherin finds him...

We’ve been to the Quantum Realm and back, but now it is time to go even deeper. In this episode of Popcorn for Breakfast, we shed the spoiler alerts and go all in on an Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Deep Dive. How does the Quantumania ending set up the future of the MCU? What about the mid-credits and post-credits scenes? What is next for Kang? Who is Kang? All of those questions and many more...

Join us on a journey back to the Quantum Realm! One of the most anticipated movies of the year is here, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. And not only is it one of the most anticipated films but it is also one of the most speculated-about films in recent memory. It was announced all the way back in 2020 that Jonathan Majors was cast as Kang for this film and, since then, it has been nothing but r...

What will Toy Story 5 be about? Will Frozen 3 neatly round out the trilogy? Were the best commercials at the Super Bowl the latest Marvel and DC Trailers? What’s going on with the long awaited I Am Legend sequel?   These are the questions we’ve been pondering too. Join us as we discuss…   The biggest trailers from the Super Bowl - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Fast X, and The Flash [05:31] Netfl...

Knock Knock. Who’s there? M. Night Shyamalan. There’s no punchline to that joke. I just wanted to say the knock-knock part so indulge me. This week, we are reviewing M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin starring Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge, and many others. In our Knock at the Cabin Review, we discuss all the acting performances, the effectiveness of the premise, and the ending...

After weeks of award season talk followed by last week’s big DCU discussion, we are finally back to discussing good, old-fashioned movie and tv news. It’s a bit refreshing if we are being honest. This week featured a potpourri of various stories from the strange, like AMC’s plan to flex ticket pricing based on seating location, to the magnificent, like Viola Davis’ newly-minted EGOT status. We’ll...

Our next Best Picture nominee review features Todd Field’s Tár. It is nominated for 6 Academy Awards including Directing, Film Editing, Cinematography, Original Screenplay, Best Picture, and Best Actress in a Leading Role for Cate Blanchett’s performance which has her positioned as the presumptive favorite. In our Tar Review, we discuss the every aspect of this film and give our opinion on if it i...

A new day is dawning at DC! At long last, we are now privy to (at least part of) James Gunn’s master plan at the newly-minted DC Studios. In this episode, we discuss all of the new ground rules James Gunn and Peter Safran have put in place for their storytelling universe, the DCU, as well as all of the new projects included in Chapter 1 of the DCU titled Gods and Monsters. This lineup includes Cre...

It’s all led up to this! The Oscar Nominations 2023 are here in advance of the 95th Academy Awards on March 12th. We now know which films, performances, and technical achievements have been selected as the best of the best from the past year and we have…. Thoughts! In this episode, we’ll breakdown all the big Oscar categories and how well the academy did selecting nominees. We’ll also discuss the...

An early-1900s murder mystery in which the lead detective works with… *checks notes*… Edgar Allan Poe? The plot of The Pale Blue Eye is certainly not one you come across every day but it is also one of those ideas that’s so crazy it just might work. And if that’s not enough to draw you in, its cast features Christian Bale, Harry Melling, Lucy Boynton, Gillian Anderson, and more. In our The Pale Bl...

The movie and TV news is finally starting to heat up in 2023! We’ve got new trailers, a new hit show in the making, casting news galore, and awards shows. In this episode, we will discuss the premiere of HBO’s The Last of Us series including thoughts on video games as a storytelling medium. We also breakdown Netflix’s 2023 Save The Dates promo and discuss what we are excited for. Plus, we finally...

So far in 2023, only one movie has captured the attention of casual and avid film fans alike, M3GAN. When a movie like this comes around (read: a horror movie with an obvious gimmick) it always begs the question: is this just another campy “B” movie that’s fun but not much else? OR is this a movie masterpiece in “B” movie clothing? In our M3GAN review, we tackle that exact question as we break dow...

Roll out the red carpet! Or honestly probably any old carpet will do because it is just the Golden Globes. Hollywood’s second-rate movie and TV awards show is here, the 80th Golden Globe Awards. The awards are back on national television this year which means we are forced to pay attention to them. So in this episode, rather than What’s Poppin’, we’re giving you a full Golden Globes Preview comple...

Just two days before we ushered in 2023, we got a late Christmas present from our friends at Netflix: a movie called White Noise, from writer-director Noah Baumbach. White Noise is based on an 80s novel written by Don DeLillo that for decades has been considered by many to be “unfilmable.” In our White Noise Review, we’ll discuss the cast, which includes Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle, and...

Out with the old, in with the new! Our first episode of 2023 is all about… 2023. In this week’s edition of What’s Poppin’, we’ll forego the movie and TV news and just focus on the 2023 releases we already know about. We discuss all the films for which we are most excited, least excited, most surprised to be excited, and more. New years always provide hope and promise and that goes for film as well...

We are closing out 2022 with a BANG by reviewing perhaps the most anticipated movie of the year and a film that took 13 years to create, Avatar: The Way of Water. In 2009, Avatar was released and blew up the box office. Since that time, it has grown to become the highest-grossing film of all time and an iconic visual spectacle that everyone recognizes. In our Avatar: The Way of Water review, we’ll...

At the risk of things changing before this episode even goes live, we are going to talk about DC Studios. Yes, we've already talked about this topic numerous times since Black Adam, but it appears the dust has not settled just yet. In this episode, we'll talk about Henry Cavill's surprise exit, Dwayne Johnson's failed coup, and what could possibly be next for the newly-minted DC Studios under Jame...

Some call it “the most wonderful time of the year” but, here at PFB, we like to refer to this time of year by only one adjective… “Special.” By now you’ve almost certainly blown the dust off the covers of your favorite Christmas DVD cases and begun spending a few nights a week with a Christmas film or classic holiday special. This year, visionary director James Gunn is bidding for acceptance into...

2023 is fast approaching and the tentpole franchises are starting to hype their new year slate. This past week, we got new trailers for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Transformers Rise of the Beasts, and more. In this episode, we are going to turn our gaze temporarily to 2023, discuss the new trailers that were released this week...