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Black Writers Week
I Am Telling You: Dreamgirls at 20
Black Writers Week
To Make People Aware of Something is Great: A Conversation with Maya Cade
TV/Streaming
Netflix Turns Up the “Heat” With Its Own “Power” in Hokey Crime Thriller “Nemesis”
Festivals & Awards
“Sinners,” “Bel-Air” Lead NAACP Image Award Nominees
Features
The 11 Best Body-Swap Movies, Ranked
Features
Locarno Film Festival 2025 Wrap-up
Festivals & Awards
Locarno Film Festival 2025: Prejudice Across the Pond in “Pool of London” and “The Story of a Three-Day Pass”
Tributes
One of Us: Malcolm-Jamal Warner (1970-2025)
Chaz's Journal
My Night at the Critics Choice Celebration of Black Cinema and Television
Festivals & Awards
Don’t Miss IndieCollect’s RescueFest This Weekend
Festivals & Awards
CIFF 2024: On the Legacy and Importance of The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Interviews
Looking Into My Soul: Colman Domingo on Sing Sing
Tributes
The Hard Way, Or My Way? RIP Bill Cobbs (1934-2024)
Black Writers Week
Robert Daniels & Odie Henderson Talk Wild Wild West at 25
Black Writers Week
You Ready To Be the King?: Fresh Turns 30
MZS
The Joy of Watching the Greats Continue to Be Great Well Into Their 80s and 90s
Features
Book Excerpt: Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema by Odie Henderson
Festivals & Awards
The 15th Annual AAFCA Awards Announces Award Recipients
Interviews
How We Got Here: Ava DuVernay on Origin
Tributes
A Goodbye to Shaft, Hollywood’s First ‘Bad’ Black Man: Richard Roundtree (1942-2023)
Tributes
The Real Deal: Tom Sizemore (1961-2023)
Festivals & Awards
Stars Shine Brightly at the 5th CCA Black Celebration of Cinema and Television
Chaz's Journal
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Exhibition, Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898 -1971, Kicks Off with Screening Series
Roger Ebert
15 African-American Filmmakers and Roger Ebert’s Birthday Retrospective Reviews
Features
Sidney Poitier and the Slap That Shook the World
Chaz's Journal
Happy New Year from Chaz Ebert and RogerEbert.com!
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: December 2021, The Criterion Collection
Festivals & Awards
Critics Choice Awards Celebration of Black Cinema & Television to Honor Will Smith, Ruth Negga and More on December 6th
Festivals & Awards
CIFF 2021: Oscar Micheaux—The Superhero of Black Cinema, Punch 9 for Harold Washington, Love Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2021: A Chiara, What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?, Revivals
TV/Streaming
Criterion’s Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films is the Story of a Cinematic Legend
Tributes
The One and Only Melvin
Tributes
Ahead of His Time: Melvin Van Peebles (1932-2021)
Chaz's Journal
Jane Fonda and Three IndieCollect Restorations to Appear This Weekend at the 2020 HFPA Restoration Summit
Festivals & Awards
Black Cinema to be Celebrated by the Critics Choice Association at December 2nd Ceremony Honoring Murphy, Long, Ejiofor and Lemmons
Features
Breaking Barriers: Goodbye to John Singleton
Festivals & Awards
The Power of Community: A Recap of the 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival
Features
Body and Soul: Revisiting Michael Mann’s “Ali”
TV/Streaming
Back to “Roots” with a Multi-Channel Remake of the Television Classic
Features
Rudy Ray Moore Blaxploitation Classic “Dolemite” comes to Blu-ray
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2015: “Miles Ahead”
Features
Black FIlm and TV Directors in 2013: A Progress Report
Features
Thumbnails 12/16/2013
Scanners
Django Unchain my heart (and set me free)
Roger Ebert
The Best Films of 2004
Roger Ebert
The Best 10 Movies of 1991
Roger Ebert
It’s high tide for black new wave
Scanners
Robert Downey Jr. plays it black
Scanners
The best greatest movies ever list
Scanners
Name That Director!
Scanners
Odienator’s time of the mumf
Far Flungers
“The Messenger” discussed by Omar Moore of London and San Francisco
Festivals & Awards
CIFF: All our capsule reviews
Festivals & Awards
CIFF #2: Opening weekend in several nutshells
Festivals & Awards
Ebert’s intro to Overlooked Fest ’05
Festivals & Awards
Ebert oversees the Overlooked
Festivals & Awards
Fest means more than just movies
Festivals & Awards
Ebert’s Overlooked Film Festival 2005
Festivals & Awards
Chicago Film Festival Celebrates 30 Years
Interviews
Dusty Cohl: In Memory
Interviews
Ossie Davis: In Memory
Interviews
