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Ex Machina
A24 Films Rated R for graphic nudity, language, sexual references and some violences. Running time: 108 minutes. Four stars out of four. “Ex Machina” is the best movie I’ve seen all year. Granted, it’s...
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Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens
Walt Disney Pictures. PG-13 for sci-fi action violence. Running time: 135 minutes. Three and a half stars out of four. You guys have all seen “Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens” by now, right?...
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Oscar Nominations 2016
So it’s Oscar nomination day, an annual event I always looked forward to back when I had a day job. The announcement comes super-early — 5:38 a.m. Pacific time, to be exact, all the better to take...
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Wine the Flick?! — Annihilation
I’m so glad I had someone to talk about “Annihilation” with me afterward, because there is a LOT to sort through. And I’m so glad that someone was Lisa Evans, a good friend and fellow mom I know from...
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What the Flick?! Podcast 8/30/18
After 8 1/2 years, we’ve had to say goodbye to What the Flick?!, as you may have heard. But for the time being, at least, we’re reincarnating our YouTube film review show as a podcast. This week,...
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What the Flick?! Podcast 9/21/18
Alonso and I are here to invite you to join our girl gang on the latest episode of the What the Flick?! Podcast. We review the ultra-stylish, ultra-violent “Assassination Nation,” the latest ambitious,...
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10 Worst Films of 2018
It’s been a year of changes around here, but it has remained a pleasure and a source of pride to be able to review films for a living. I still have six jobs and I have no job, as I like to say — it’s...
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RogerEbert.com — Triple Frontier
An impressive, all-star cast and an acclaimed director and writer come together to create a film that’s frustratingly uneven in “Triple Frontier,” which got a theatrical run before its Netflix debut....
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Breakfast All Day Podcast 3/15/19
It’s a sampler platter of movies this week on Breakfast All Day, from indies to foreign films, great stuff to middling stuff. A very stuffy Alonso overcomes his allergies to join me in reviews of the...
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Breakfast All Day Podcast 12/19/19
It’s a week of extravagant and insane spectacles on Breakfast All Day, and we are here for all of it. Alonso, Matt and I had way too much fun reviewing the truly bizarre, star-studded musical “Cats”...
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