Chaz's Journal
PBS Marching Toward The Vote
On a series of PBS specials on the struggles for women to earn the right to vote.
On a series of PBS specials on the struggles for women to earn the right to vote.
Matt writes: On August 2nd, Chaz Ebert announced that RogerEbert.com is gender balancing its regular rotation of film critics. Nell Minow, Monica Castillo and Tomris Laffly join Sheila O’Malley and Christy Lemire to round out the website’s roster of female critics to achieve a fifty-fifty split of five women and five men. The site also will publish more frequent contributions by diverse critics, including Castillo and Odie Henderson, who bring valued perspectives from their Cuban- and African-American roots. Minow has also been appointed the website's first female assistant editor.
A report on how #MeToo and #TimesUp were reflected at Sundance this year.
The latest and greatest on Blu-ray, DVD and streaming, including "Spotlight," "The Danish Girl," and "The Graduate."
How Preston Sturges conquered Hollywood; "Image overload" is frying our brains; South Korea's polarizing film market; Profile of Peggy Siegal; Tim Cook on phone hacking.
Jackie Fuchs of The Runaways; Importance of The Awl; Hard to be Aleksei German; Sneaky power of Amy Schumer; Danny Elfman on eight of his classic scores.