Black Writers Week Hard Knocks and Rebirth in the Bayou: Alfre Woodard in “Passion Fish” June 19, 2026
Books Welcome to the Family Captures Chaos & Coolness of One of Hollywood’s Most Memorable Franchises December 4, 2025
DVD/Blu-Ray Criterion’s “The Wes Anderson Archive” is the Blu-ray Box Set of the Year October 3, 2025
Festivals & Awards KVIFF 2025: Stellan Skarsgård on “Sentimental Value,” Ingmar Bergman, and Cinematic Empathy July 13, 2025
Chaz's Journal The Gene Siskel Film Center Celebrates the First and Last of Famous Filmmakers with their Entrances & Exits Series July 11, 2024
Roger Ebert 15 African-American Filmmakers and Roger Ebert’s Birthday Retrospective Reviews June 17, 2022
Chaz's Journal Lyric Opera’s The Magic Flute Named Best Theatre Show by Time Out Chicago December 13, 2021
Interviews A Sort of Frankenstein Experiment: Hagai Levi on Remaking Scenes from a Marriage September 7, 2021
Festivals & Awards Art Alone Endures: A Parisian’s Take on the 2021 Cannes Film Festival July 26, 2021
Interviews Being Human Is Heroic: Melora Walters on Waterlily Jaguar, Drowning, Magnolia and More December 7, 2020
Interviews The Illusionary Quality of a Dream: Stella Hopkins on Her Directorial Debut, Elyse December 5, 2020
Interviews It Was Great To Play An Actual Cartoon!: Fifteen Minutes With Paul Dooley on Popeye December 2, 2020
Festivals & Awards Venice Film Festival 2020: In Between Dying, The Best is Yet to Come, Topside September 8, 2020
Interviews This Beautiful, Stressful, All-Consuming Thing: Alex Wolff on Castle in the Ground May 14, 2020
TV/Streaming The Best Current Source for Streaming Classic Movies is … Amazon Prime? February 11, 2019
Features Bright Wall/Dark Room November 2018: An Essay on Ingmar Bergman’s Hour of the Wolf by Ethan Warren November 13, 2018
Festivals & Awards NYFF 2018: The Slows, In My Room, Sorry Angel, Too Late to Die Young October 1, 2018
Features Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema, Criterion’s 39-Film Box Set, as Seen Through Ebert’s Eyes July 13, 2018
Features Bright Wall/Dark Room October 2016: “The Varieties of Religious Experience” by Matt Brennan October 11, 2016
Festivals & Awards Ebertfest 2016: Kasi Lemmons Presents a Director’s Cut of “Eve’s Bayou” April 16, 2016
Interviews A Living Cinematic Organism: Stephen Cone on “Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party” January 5, 2016