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TV/Streaming
“Ride or Die”: Two Best Friends, Too Many Lies, and a Good Reason to Get a Fake Passport
Festivals & Awards
Tribeca 2026: The Narratives
Interviews
Golf is a Great Metaphor: Edward Burns and Brian d’Arcy James on “Finnegan’s Foursome”
Features
Courtney Grace, “Disclosure Day,” and the One-Scene Wonder
Black Writers Week
What the 2025 Federal Arts Cuts Mean for Documentary Filmmaking
TV/Streaming
In Taylor Sheridan’s “The Madison,” Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell Weather an Urban-Rural Romance
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide February 2026: “Predator: Badlands,” “Song Song Blue,” “A Little Prayer,” More
Chaz's Journal
Chaz Ebert Remembers Reverend Jesse Jackson: Oct 8, 1941 – February 17, 2026
Tributes
Keep on Dreaming: Reverend Jesse Jackson (1941-2026)
Features
A Tribute to Former FCC Chair and Media Champion Newton Minow
TV/Streaming
The 25 Best TV Shows of 2025
Tributes
The 8 Essential Films of Rob Reiner’s Career
Features
The Ten Best Films of 2025
Interviews
Cinema Is My Church: Rian Johnson on “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery”
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide November 2025: “Familiar Touch,” “Eyes Wide Shut,” “Splitsville”
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2025: Fuze, Glenrothan, The Last Viking
Festivals & Awards
Fantasia 2025: Mother of Flies, The Virgin of the Quarry Lake, Foreigner
DVD/Blu-Ray
DVD/Blu-Ray Guide July 2025: “A Minecraft Movie,” “Final Destination: Bloodlines,” “The Legend of Ochi,” More
Festivals & Awards
59th Karlovy Vary Film Festival Announces Official Selection and Juries
Chaz at Cannes
Cannes 2025 Video #2: Isaac Feldberg on Eddington, Chronology of Water, Left-Handed Girl, and More
Features
Restored and Rediscovered Festival Spotlights Organizations at the Forefront of Film Restoration
Features
How Ken Burns’ “Shadow Ball” Connects Baseball’s Past to Our Uncertain Future
Features
The Idealist’s Journey
Interviews
Pay Attention Now: Gretchen Mol and Juliana Margulies on “Millers in Marriage”
Festivals & Awards
10 Great Performances from Sundance 2025
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2025: Rebuilding, Together, Peter Hujar’s Day
Chaz's Journal
It’s Time to Give a FECK: Elevating Humanity through Forgiveness, Empathy, Compassion and Kindness (book by Chaz Ebert, with Foreword by Tamron Hall)
Features
The Great Performances of 2024, Part Two
Interviews
Living Forward: Adam Elliot on “Memoir of a Snail”
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide: October 2024
Festivals & Awards
CIFF 2024: The Return of the Projectionist, Between Goodbyes, The Brink of Dreams
Festivals & Awards
NYFF: Stranger Eyes, Harvest, Who By Fire
MZS
His Own Way: John Amos (1940-2024)
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2024: Millers in Marriage, Sketch, The Deb
Festivals & Awards
13 Films Illuminate Locarno Film Festival’s Columbia Pictures Retrospective
Festivals & Awards
Fantasia 2024: The Chapel, The Beast Within, FAQ
Tributes
Willie Mays: The Greatest to Ever Play
Black Writers Week
Understanding Grief in Rural Canada Through Hulu’s Under the Bridge
Interviews
What Will the Next World War Be Fought Over? A New Documentary Says It Might Be Food and Water
Interviews
Reclamation Through Restoration: Thelma Schoonmaker Talks Michael Powell, Martin Scorsese and Peeping Tom
Festivals & Awards
Saving Film History One Frame at a Time: A Preview of Restored & Rediscovered Series at the Jacob Burns Film Center
Festivals & Awards
The Overlook Film Festival Highlights, Part 2: The Hands of Orlac, Kill Your Lover, Dead Mail, Red Rooms
Features
Metrograph Highlights Remarkable Career of Lee Chang-dong
Interviews
Keith Law Wants You to Watch Better Baseball Movies
Festivals & Awards
War Was Not Over at the 2024 Oscars
Festivals & Awards
True/False 2024: Ibelin, Alien Island, Yintah
Features
Horror Movies Should Give Up The Final Girl
Tributes
We Loved You Best: Tom Smothers (1937-2023)
Features
Book Excerpt: You Talkin’ to Me?: The Definitive Guide to Iconic Movie Quotes by Brian Abrams
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2023: Summer Qamp, Boil Alert, Songs of Earth
TV/Streaming
The Walking Dead Finds Religion In the Compelling, Odd Spinoff Daryl Dixon
TV/Streaming
Peacock’s Twisted Metal Adaptation Takes Too Long to Get Into Gear
Features
Comic-Con Without the Stars
Festivals & Awards
New York Asian Film Festival 2023 Highlights
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: June 2023
Festivals & Awards
Ebertfest 2023: Frank Oz and Derek DelGaudio Screen In & Of Itself, Rita Coburn Spotlights Marian Anderson and More!
TV/Streaming
Scott Z. Burns’ Star-Studded Extrapolations is a Harrowing, Hopeful Look into the Future
Features
A Preview of the 2023 Rendez-Vous with French Cinema
TV/Streaming
Hello Tomorrow! Offers Creative Vision of an Alternate Reality
TV/Streaming
Sharp Second Season of The White Lotus Hopes Viewers Will Take Return Trip
TV/Streaming
Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities Boasts a Master’s Standards
TV/Streaming
Showtime’s Let the Right One In Expands on a Horror Classic
Festivals & Awards
FACETS Screen Gems Benefit is Sold Out, But Donations are Still Welcome
Features
Bright Wall/Dark Room September 2022: Stupid Man Suit: On Donnie Darko by Lindsey Romain
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2022: Charcoal, Muru, Roost
Festivals & Awards
Only a Few Tickets Left for FACETS Screen Gems Benefit on Wednesday, September 28th
Festivals & Awards
Venice Film Festival 2022: A Couple, Bones and All, Master Gardener
Chaz's Journal
Odie Henderson: An Anniversary Celebration
Festivals & Awards
FACETS Honors Chaz Ebert’s Life and Career at Screen Gems Benefit on September 28th
Interviews
We’re Only as Good as Our Generation: Ethan Hawke on The Last Movie Stars
Festivals & Awards
Mr. Soul! Wins 2022 Peabody Award
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2022: An Annotated Table of Contents
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2022: Tchaikovsky’s Wife, The Eight Mountains, Scarlet
TV/Streaming
Gary Oldman, Sharp Writing Carry Very Entertaining Slow Horses
Features
Scene Stealer: A Tribute to Isabel Jewell
Tributes
Lata Mangeshkar: A 10-Song Primer
TV/Streaming
The Best Television of 2021
Features
A Tale of the Tapes: On the ‘Recreated’ Conversations in Speer Goes to Hollywood (Updated)
Interviews
A Lucky Film Buff: Leonard Maltin Reflects on His Life
Features
Janus-Faced: The Two Tony Sopranos
Festivals & Awards
Telluride Film Festival Announces Full 2021 Program Lineup
TV/Streaming
HBO’s Gossip Girl Doesn’t Work When the Kids Are Alright
Black Writers Week
Mr. Soul!: A Case Study in Indie Film Distribution
MZS
The Cruelest Month, Part 3: Sorry-Grateful
Tributes
A Household Name in France: Celebrating Bertrand Tavernier
Festivals & Awards
SXSW 2021: Sound of Violence, Jakob’s Wife, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Interviews
What Dreams May Come: Julia Sarah Stone on Come True and the Mysteries of the Subconscious
Features
The Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Cinematic Universe
Festivals & Awards
Mr. Soul! Nominated for Three NAACP Image Awards, Debuts Exclusive Music Video for Show Me Your Soul by Robert Glasper and Lalah Hathaway
Interviews
Unearthing Skeletons: John Carpenter on Lost Themes III and Scoring Halloween
TV/Streaming
The Nostalgia of Epix’s Bridge and Tunnel is Filled with Wrong Turns
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2021 Announces Virtual Competition, Premiere, Midnight Titles and More
Features
How the Drive-In Saved Me in 2020
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