Popcorn for Breakfast

Academy Award winner Domee Shi directs Pixar’s latest film, Turning Red. The film is a coming of age story about a 13 year old girl, Meilin Lee, growing up in Toronto in 2002. She is struggling to balance her school and home life when she suddenly acquires the ability to turn into a giant red panda when she gets too excited. This film released on Disney+ last week and, in this episode, we give our...

Hello there! At long last, we have our first official look at what must be the most anticipated new series of 2022, Disney+'s Obi-Wan Kenobi. In this episode, we'll react to that trailer and talk about our feelings as we are about 2 months out from the premiere. We'll also discuss some very interesting new Dune: Part Two casting rumors, HBO Max and Discovery+ combining under the same umbrella, War...

At the beginning of 2022, both of us declared The Batman our “Most Anticipated Film of the Year.” Fast forward two months later and we are already here, in March, reviewing our most anticipated film of the year. The Batman has seemingly been in the making for a decade and there are plenty of storylines surrounding this film: outrage around the Robert Pattinson casting, comparisons to the Nolan tri...

A new Batman is waiting in the wings. we are checking out The Batman this week and, in this episode, we'll brain dump our final thoughts on all things The Batman. We'll also be discussing the big takeaways from last night's Screen Actors Guild Awards and what if anything from the night may be foreshadowing for the Oscars. Plus, Beetlejuice 2, a few head-scratching projects coming out of Paramount,...

The video game adaptation genre is perhaps the fastest-growing genre in the entire film industry. With each year, more and more world-renowned gaming franchises find their way to the silver screen. This week, Uncharted joined in on the fun and had an impressive opening weekend box office debut. The PFB guys checked it out and have shared their thoughts on whether this latest video game adaptation...

After a 6 year hiatus, it appears the band is getting back together for a least one more ride in Star Trek's Pine-Saldana-Quinto-Verse (or the Kelvin timeline if you are a nerd). We also got a first look at Baz Luhrmann's ELVIS biopic starring Austin Butler and Tom Hanks and some huge announcements related to Stranger Things, Atlanta, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.   Thanks for listening!   Please...

When you think of the Super Bowl, I would bet movies are not the first thing to come to mind. But, year after year, the Big Game delivers some big-time movie news in the form of never before seen trailers for some of the year's biggest films. In this week's edition of What's Poppin', we'll be reacting to all of the big trailers from Super Bowl Sunday including Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of M...

The subject of our review this week is Kenneth Branagh’s semi-autobiographical feature, Belfast. Set in the Northern Ireland town of Belfast in the 1960s, Belfast is a story of youth, family, community, and conflict. This picture has earned many nominations and awards during the current awards cycle and, in this episode, we give a full review and discuss its potential as an Oscars Best Picture can...

Before we can predict who will take home the big prize at this year's Academy Awards, we have to know who is nominated. The nominees will be revealed tomorrow, but we'll reveal our predictions for the Oscars' 10 Best Picture nominees live tonight! We'll also talk about Netflix's 2022 sizzle reel which included first looks at The Gray Man, Knives Out 2, You People, Enola Holmes 2, and more. Plus, O...

Hurry, Hurry, Hurry! Guillermo Del Toro, whose last film won best picture at the Oscars, is finally back. This time, he’s adapted a story that began as a book and has already been adapted to film once before, Nightmare Alley. This movie features an elite cast and one of the best directors in the biz behind the camera, but does it have enough to garner Oscar consideration? We’ll share our thoughts...

Nerds rejoice! The big, nerdy movie and tv wheel keeps spinning and the wins keep coming. This week, we got the first trailer for Paramount+'s live-action Halo series, another new spinoff series from James Gunn's The Suicide Squad following the success of Peacemaker, Warner Bros. rumored plans for Joker 2, and confirmation of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series for Disney+. And that's only...

“Double, double toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble.” Though this week’s movie review contains much talk of witches, you’ll want to “screw your courage to the sticking place” to hear full thoughts on a film that has stirred up some buzz on the awards circuit. Our The Tragedy of MacBeth Review contains a full analysis of some of the best performances and the production quality as well a...

The sheer volume of movie news stories this week was intimidating to say the least. But we put our hard hats on and got to work trying our best to cover it all. Of course, we didn’t get to everything, but the most important things were certainly covered: The Rings of Power, The Batman, and why for the love of god they keep making Pinocchio movies.   The Rings of Power Reaction [08:41] Bong Joon-Ho...

On this week’s movie review episode of Popcorn for Breakfast, we’re reviewing Don’t Look Up. The film is a Netflix original film directed by Adam McKay (The Big Short, Vice) and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Rob Morgan, Cate Blanchett, Jonah Hill, Tyler Perry, Timotheé Chalamet, Mark Rylance and more. Despite being released right at the tail end of 2021, it still man...

Thank goodness the Oscars are going back to a host format following last year’s disaster of a show. Now the question is: who will be selected as host? Tom Holland? Pete Davidson? Someone else? In this episode of Popcorn for Breakfast, we discuss all the latest reports and speculation around the Oscars’ host search. Plus, we take time to talk about the Netflix price hike, Pixar’s Turning Red, the f...

After 18 years, The Matrix Franchise has returned with a fourth installment, one that many fans were surprised by given the seeming finality of the previous trilogy’s conclusion. But, as the title suggests, Neo, Trinity, and the gang are back in action for The Matrix Resurrections! In our The Matrix Resurrections Review, we cover all things Matrix including how this film builds off of the original...

2021 sucked. That’s a fact. But, the good news is that 2022 has a pretty decent shot at being better than 2021. New Year’s always bring hope and rejuvenation with them and, on this episode of Popcorn for Breakfast, we take a look at what movie 2022 has in store in our first Schoolyard Pick of the new year. Plus, we spend time remembering Betty White, discussing some casting news for ‘The Devil in...

Episode 5 of Hawkeye gave us a little bit more of everything: more Yelena, more Eleanor, more Maya, and so much more than that. We now have a clear vision of what might be happening in the season finale and who might be in play as the series final boss. That’s right, there is only one more episode remaining so listen to our recap and analysis of episode 5 to hear our predictions for how this serie...

Spider-Man: No Way Home is here! There may not be a movie more anticipated than this one and we are not talking about this year, we mean like ever (like ever, ever). And, with that in mind, a movie event of this magnitude requires more attention in our review than some others. So, not only did we break down each major plot point in the movie but we also spent some time at the end speculating as to...

This should be interesting… For context, both Cam and Kirk openly said on the podcast that they were against the West Side Story remake. After all, who remakes a masterpiece? Well, now the wait is over, and the guys have now seen what Steven Spielberg had in mind for his remake. Would it be enough to win over both of our reviewers? You’ll have to listen to find out!   Thanks for listening!   Pleas...

At the time of recording, Kirk and Cam were less than 24 hours away from seeing Spider-Man: No Way Home. As such, the guys decided to take one last crack at bold predictions for the movie. After the Spidey talk, the guys jump into some Golden Globes reactions followed by casting news for Oppenheimer and a roundup of the past week of movie and tv news and trailers.   Final ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’...

Kirk and Cam agree that Hawkeye Episode 4 was the best of the series to date. And, in this episode, they have a ton of thoughts on this week’s big reveal, the threads that are still being pulled, and the excellent character development of Kate and Clint so far in this series. Not to mention, we only have two episodes left and there are any number of ways this show could go. So, the guys spend a to...

Our movie review for this week is Jane Campion’s ‘The Power of the Dog.’ The film boasts a unique and impressive cast including Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, and Jesse Plemons, but does that talent come together? In this episode, we discuss every aspect of this movie from acting performances to writing to production quality and much more. Unfortunately, there was only one scene with an actu...

BONUS EPISODE! Or at least that’s what we are calling it. We never got around to discussing that Marvel Studios’ What If…? Season 1 Finale. So, now we are taking another look at it with the benefit of having seen Shang-Chi and Eternals. So, what does this series mean for the MCU? Does it mean anything at all? Should it be considered a success? A failure? Or neither? Listen in to hear our thoughts...

Episode 3 of Hawkeye was titled “Echoes” and, as you probably guessed, we get a ton more information about our new character from Episode 2, Maya Lopez aka Echo. We also got a closer look at some of Ronin’s misdeeds, the Kate and Clint relationship, and a potential first glimpse at Kingpin. In this episode of Spilled Popcorn, we talk through all of the events and easter eggs in episode 3 and what...