Blog Posts That Mention Madonna
Interviews
Desire Is the Catalyst: Gregg Araki on “I Want Your Sex”
July 30, 2026
Black Writers Week
Uncomfortable Truths: “Set It Off,” “Girl 6,” and “Naked Acts” at 30
June 19, 2026
Features
Male Directors Can’t Stop Making Movies About Female Pop Stars
April 28, 2026
Tributes
Swan Song: Udo Kier (1944-2025)
November 25, 2025
Tributes
The Most Beautiful Italian Girl in Tunisia: Claudia Cardinale (1938-2025)
September 26, 2025
Features
An Ode to the Unanswered Questions in “Agnes of God”
September 2, 2025
Features
Meet the Writers: Cortlyn Kelly
July 17, 2025
Ebertfest
Your Guide to Ebertfest 2025: Day 2, April 24th
April 24, 2025
Festivals & Awards
Ebertfest 2025 Announces Full Schedule, With Guests Including Francis Ford Coppola, Susan Seidelman, Rosanna Arquette, and More
April 19, 2025
Ebertfest
Ebertfest 2025 Adds “Desperately Seeking Susan,” “Touch,” “His Three Daughters”
February 3, 2025
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2025: Lurker; Free Leonard Peltier; Oh, Hi
January 28, 2025
Features
“She Just Had an Accident”: “Seed of Chucky” at 20
November 13, 2024
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide: October 2024
October 29, 2024
Interviews
Levan Akin on Making Films His Way, the Queer Art That Shaped Him, and His Touching New Drama Crossing
July 18, 2024
Festivals & Awards
Which Cannes Film Will Win the Palme d’Or? Let’s Rank Their Chances
April 11, 2024
Features
Along for the Ride with Sofia Coppola
March 6, 2024
Features
You’re Naked Without Us: A Report from the Costume Designers Guild
March 6, 2024
Features
A (Not So) Brief History of Silent Film Influences on Pop Music
March 4, 2024
Features
Our Opinion of Crossroads Hasn’t Changed, Our Feelings About Britney Spears Have
February 15, 2024
Interviews
Their Show Was the Gateway: Matt Singer on His New Book, Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
October 16, 2023
Tributes
A Closing Prayer: Terence Davies (1945-2023)
October 8, 2023
Tributes
Everything Is Fate: Julian Sands (1958-2023)
June 28, 2023
Festivals & Awards
A Look Back at Tribeca 2023
June 26, 2023
Chaz at Cannes
Five Great Tales from Cannes’ Past
May 22, 2023
Interviews
The Best Thing You Never Expected: Luck Director Peggy Holmes on Good Luck and Bad
July 24, 2022
Interviews
The Story of Who We Are: Gregory Nava Helps Celebrate Selena’s 50th Birthday
April 15, 2021
Tributes
Alan Parker: 1944-2020
July 31, 2020
Chaz's Journal
Selah and The Spades to Debut Tomorrow, April 17th, on Amazon Prime
April 16, 2020
Features
Danny Aiello: 1933-2019
December 14, 2019
Festivals & Awards
Selah and The Spades to Screen at BAMCinemaFest on June 16th
June 14, 2019
TV/Streaming
FX’s Pose has Glamour and Righteous Rage in Second Season
June 10, 2019
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2019: Rocketman
May 17, 2019
Features
Breaking Barriers: Goodbye to John Singleton
May 1, 2019
Features
Bright Wall/Dark Room April 2019: Religious Cinema for Non-Believers: Scorsese’s Silence
April 16, 2019
Chaz's Journal
How Clerks and Four Weddings & a Funeral Marked a Turning Point for Female Sexuality in Film
March 9, 2019
Chaz's Journal
Black Women vs. The End of the World (Again)
March 7, 2019
Features
Penny Marshall: 1943-2018
December 18, 2018
Features
Scott Wilson: 1942-2018
October 7, 2018
Features
Aretha Franklin: 1942-2018
August 16, 2018
TV/Streaming
FX’s Historic Series Pose is Glamorous, Reverent
May 31, 2018
Chaz's Journal
Let the River Run: On the 30th Anniversary of Working Girl
March 25, 2018
Festivals & Awards
Greta Gerwig Joins Short Legacy of Female Best Director Nominees
February 21, 2018
Festivals & Awards
Oscar Contenders Have Voters Seeing Triple
January 3, 2018
Interviews
The Holy Vow: Margaret Betts on “Novitiate”
October 24, 2017
Features
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January 5, 2017
Features
Deconstructing Woody: A Year with a Filmmaker
December 29, 2016
Festivals & Awards
The Return of Warren Beatty
November 3, 2016
Interviews
Nature is Monumentally Indifferent: Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer on “Into the Inferno”
October 20, 2016
Festivals & Awards
CIFF 2016 Preview: 35 Films to See
October 11, 2016
Features
Burn The Witch: The Gender Politics of Being an Auteur
May 5, 2016
Features
New Position: A Defense of “Under the Cherry Moon”
May 3, 2016
Features
Visual Pleasure and Voodoo Demographics: A Reflection on Women and Film (Updated)
March 30, 2016
Features
Jane Birkin and Charlotte Gainsbourg: Like Mother, Like Daughter
January 28, 2016
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2015: Films We’ve Covered At Other Fests
September 24, 2015
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2015: Movies We’ve Already Seen at Other Fests
September 7, 2015
Features
Thumbnails 7/30/15
July 30, 2015
Festivals & Awards
Barbara Cannes 2015
May 28, 2015
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2015: Palme de Whiskers
May 24, 2015
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2015: “Chronic,” “Masaan”
May 22, 2015
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2015: “Youth,” “Madonna,” “The Assassin”
May 20, 2015
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2015: Table of Contents
May 12, 2015
MZS
“The Breakfast Club”, 30 Years Later: A Conversation Across Generations
March 26, 2015
Features
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March 4, 2015
Features
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February 26, 2015
Features
The Ten Best Films of 2014
December 16, 2014
Features
Holiday Gift Guide 2014: Must-Read Books
December 5, 2014
Features
Thumbnails 12/4/14
December 4, 2014
Far Flungers
Doraemon Stand By Me: A Robot Cat without a Gong
November 12, 2014
Features
A Single Consciousness: The Cinema of Terence Davies
October 23, 2014
Interviews
Interview: David Thomson on the Changing Nature of Film
September 23, 2014
Festivals & Awards
Telluride 2014: True Stories Turn to Festival Hits in “The Imitation Game,” “The Price of Fame”
September 1, 2014
Features
Dr. Ryan Stone: Everything a Typical Female Movie Character Is Not
December 10, 2013
Features
“Six by Sondheim” Keeps Up HBO’s Track Record for Great Documentaries
December 6, 2013
Features
Visual Pleasure and Voodoo Demographics: A Reflection on Women and Film
October 7, 2013
Features
Blood on the screen: Violence, movies and Me
July 23, 2013
Features
Susan Seidelman, Survivor
July 11, 2013
Features
Neil Jordan’s Seven Grim Fairy Tales: An Infographic Guide to a Director’s Obsessions
July 1, 2013
TV/Streaming
Disturbance in a cathedral: HBO’s “Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer”
June 10, 2013
Festivals & Awards
Seduced by Sonoma
April 24, 2013
Roger Ebert
Ebert’s Most Hated
December 19, 2012
Roger Ebert
The Best 10 Movies of 1996
December 19, 2012
Roger Ebert
The Best 10 Movies of 1991
December 19, 2012
Scanners
Robert Downey Jr. plays it black
December 14, 2012
Scanners
The “gay” Dilemma: If it’s a joke, what does it mean?
December 14, 2012
Scanners
Marilyn Chambers, 1952-2009
December 14, 2012
Scanners
Use your allusion: Is it funny if you have to explain it?
December 14, 2012
Scanners
‘The Scream’: Now more than ever
December 14, 2012
Scanners
They no like Borat
December 14, 2012
Scanners
Let’s get social: Networking frames
December 14, 2012
Scanners
Beep-beep-m beep-beep, yeah
December 14, 2012
Scanners
It’s a God! It’s a Man! It’s Super-Jesus!
December 14, 2012
Scanners
The Miracle of Trudy Kockenlocker
December 14, 2012
Scanners
The death of film criticism has been greatly exaggerated, Part I
December 14, 2012
Scanners
On actors who are too gay to be in the Musicals
December 14, 2012
Scanners
Brüno is WWE wrestling
December 14, 2012
Scanners
Do the Contrarian (Part I)
December 14, 2012
Scanners
You make the movie, you sell the movie
December 14, 2012
Far Flungers
A gay kid’s long, barely-repressed sob
December 14, 2012
TV/Streaming
Johnny Carson: The man behind the curtain
December 14, 2012
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