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Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2026: Table of Contents
February 3, 2026
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2026: Joybubbles, Soul Patrol, Who Killed Alex Odeh?
January 26, 2026
Festivals & Awards
Sundance Film Festival Announces 2026 Line-Up
December 10, 2025
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2025: Erupcja, Junk World, The Napa Boys
September 14, 2025
Festivals & Awards
Telluride Film Festival 2025: The Cycle of Love, H is for Hawk, La Grazia
September 3, 2025
TV/Streaming
“Daredevil: Born Again” is an Imperfect Interrogation of Our Current Moment
March 4, 2025
Festivals & Awards
Black Harvest Film Festival 2024: Black Table, Rising Up at Night, The Weekend, Jimmy
November 18, 2024
Features
Bright Wall/Dark Room October 2024: All Hail the Screwball Queen by Olympia Kiriakou
October 16, 2024
Festivals & Awards
Telluride Film Festival 2024: Memories for a Lifetime
September 3, 2024
Festivals & Awards
13 Films Illuminate Locarno Film Festival’s Columbia Pictures Retrospective
August 23, 2024
Tributes
Conversation Piece: Phil Donahue (1935-2024)
August 20, 2024
Features
SDCC 2024: Back Bigger and Better
July 29, 2024
Features
The Forrest Gump Soundtrack Hits Different in the Spotify Era
July 2, 2024
Features
How Cold War Thrillers Expressed Presidential Campaign Concerns
June 9, 2024
Tributes
Jack Flack Always Escapes: Dabney Coleman (1932-2024)
May 19, 2024
MZS
Roger Corman’s Greatest Legacy Was Giving So Many People Their Big Break
May 14, 2024
Tributes
I’ve Never Seen Anything Like It Before: Roger Corman (1926-2024)
May 13, 2024
MZS
The Unloved, Part 125: Mother Night
April 30, 2024
Far Flungers
Ape Shall Not Kill Ape: A Look at the Entire Apes Franchise
April 8, 2024
Features
The People’s Joker and Six Other Films That Were Stuck in Legal Limbo
April 3, 2024
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2024: Frida, Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza, Luther: Never Too Much
January 31, 2024
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2024: Sue Bird: In the Clutch, Luther: Never Too Much, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
January 25, 2024
TV/Streaming
Genius: MLK/X Fails Legacies of Civil Rights Leaders
January 25, 2024
Tributes
Goodbye to a TV Pioneer: Norman Lear (1922-2023)
December 6, 2023
Festivals & Awards
The 2024 Sundance Press Inclusion Initiative Application Open Now Through Friday, August 25th
August 20, 2023
Video Games
Texas Chain Saw Massacre Game is a Promising Tribute to the Bloody Original
August 20, 2023
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: July 2023
July 27, 2023
Festivals & Awards
Tribeca 2023: The Gullspång Miracle, Common Ground, Transition, Songs About F***ing
June 13, 2023
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: May 2023
May 18, 2023
TV/Streaming
Chemistry Carries Comedy of Act Your Age
March 9, 2023
Tributes
The Real Deal: Tom Sizemore (1961-2023)
March 5, 2023
MZS
The Unloved, Part 111: Devil in a Blue Dress
March 1, 2023
Tributes
Without True Love We Just Exist: Burt Bacharach (1928-2023)
February 13, 2023
TV/Streaming
Little America Returns For More Heartwarming Stories In Its Second Season
December 8, 2022
Tributes
Goodbye to a Chicago Legend: Sergio Mims (1955-2022)
October 7, 2022
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: July 2022
July 19, 2022
Features
Newton Minow on the First Telecommunications Satellite
July 12, 2022
Festivals & Awards
American Black Film Festival 2022 Begins In-Person Today, June 15th, Through June 19th and Virtually June 20th Through June 30th
June 15, 2022
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2022: Highlights of the Return of the Legendary Film Festival
May 31, 2022
TV/Streaming
Prime Video’s Night Sky is a Sentimental but Hollow Sci-fi Series
May 19, 2022
Festivals & Awards
The 2022 Chicago Critics Film Festival Welcomes Major Chicago Premieres
May 6, 2022
TV/Streaming
AMC’s 61st Street is a Heavy-Handed Legal Thriller
April 6, 2022
Festivals & Awards
SXSW 2022: Linoleum, Spin Me Round, I Love My Dad
March 14, 2022
Interviews
Defying Gravity: Dante Basco, Caroline Goodall, James V. Hart, Charlie Korsmo and More on the Thirtieth Anniversary of Hook
December 2, 2021
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: November 2021
November 22, 2021
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: Horror Edition
October 22, 2021
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: September 2021
September 16, 2021
Chaz's Journal
Thank You Brian Raftery and The Ringer for Your Podcast, Gene and Roger
August 31, 2021
Tributes
Constructively Curmudgeonly: Ed Asner 1929-2021
August 30, 2021
Interviews
The Connection: Jennifer Hudson on Respect
August 9, 2021
Features
We Can Sing Again: Nine Movie Musicals Coming Out in 2021
May 23, 2021
Features
Book Excerpt: Films of Endearment by Michael Koresky
May 4, 2021
MZS
The Cruelest Month, Part 1: Hurricane Bettye
April 19, 2021
TV/Streaming
Genius: Aretha Goes Surface Deep on the Queen of Soul
March 19, 2021
Festivals & Awards
The 2020 Frontrunners for Best Picture
February 22, 2021
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2021 Announces Virtual Competition, Premiere, Midnight Titles and More
December 15, 2020
Festivals & Awards
Chicago Media Project Expands Doc Festival to Middleburg
September 21, 2020
TV/Streaming
Fox’s Filthy Rich Skates the Line Between Drama and Camp
September 20, 2020
Chaz's Journal
Upholding Black Voices: An Annotated Table of Contents
June 11, 2020
Features
What to Watch During a Quarantine
March 17, 2020
Chaz's Journal
PBS Marching Toward The Vote
March 11, 2020
Features
“I’m Not Special”: Lulu Wang Serves Cocktails Garnished with Industry Truths and Filmmaking Advice at Behind-The-Bar Q&A
February 25, 2020
Festivals & Awards
Ebertfest Announces Kathryn Bostic and the Opening and Closing Night Films for 2020 Festival
February 19, 2020
TV/Streaming
The Best Television of 2019
December 30, 2019
MZS
Smile When You Say That: Joker’s Last Laugh
November 10, 2019
Festivals & Awards
Ebertfest Film Festival 2020 Passes On Sale November 1st
October 23, 2019
Features
The Lost Souls of Joaquin Phoenix
October 7, 2019
Festivals & Awards
Twelve Thumbs-Up Films from the Venice Film Festival
August 31, 2019
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: August 22, 2019
August 21, 2019
TV/Streaming
Mindhunter Stakes Claim as Netflix’s Best Drama
August 16, 2019
Festivals & Awards
Comic-Con 2019: Women Rocking Hollywood Panel
July 23, 2019
Features
From Don’t Look Back to Rolling Thunder Revue: The Cinema of Bob Dylan
June 11, 2019
Festivals & Awards
Bravo Pavarotti and Ron Howard: An Appreciation of Pavarotti and the Lyric Opera
June 6, 2019
Festivals & Awards
Ebertfest 2019: A Photo Journal
April 18, 2019
Festivals & Awards
Finding New Neighbors at the Movies: The Ebert Fellows on Ebertfest 2019
April 15, 2019
Festivals & Awards
Ebertfest 2019, Day 1: The Year Opens with a Cinematic Invocation
April 11, 2019
Festivals & Awards
Ebertfest 2019 to Open with Aretha Franklin Documentary, Amazing Grace
March 14, 2019
Interviews
Kathryn Bostic on Being the First African-American Female Composer to Join the Academy
March 7, 2019
Festivals & Awards
Ebertfest 2019 Reveals Full Line-Up Honoring Scott Wilson, Richard Roeper and Jonathan Demme
March 6, 2019
Chaz's Journal
A Look Back at Those We Lost in 2018
January 2, 2019
Features
Merry Christmas, Shirley Temple
December 21, 2018
Features
Penny Marshall: 1943-2018
December 18, 2018
Features
Odie Henderson’s Top Ten Films of 2018
December 12, 2018
Far Flungers
AFI Fest 2018: I Am the Night
November 11, 2018
Chaz's Journal
My List of Movies to See Before the End of 2018
November 9, 2018
Features
Great Movies Return to the Big Screen at Music Box’s 70mm Film Festival
September 14, 2018
Features
Natural Woman: A Tribute to Aretha Franklin
August 17, 2018
Features
Thumbnails 8/17/18
August 16, 2018
Features
Aretha Franklin: 1942-2018
August 16, 2018
Festivals & Awards
Out of the Past: Noir City: Chicago is Back for 10th Year
August 16, 2018
Features
Thumbnails 8/15/18
August 15, 2018
Interviews
No False Moves: Carl Franklin on His Noir Films
August 14, 2018
Festivals & Awards
Venice Film Festival 2017: “Suburbicon,” “The Private Life of a Modern Woman”
September 2, 2017
TV/Streaming
Great Ensemble Elevates “Snowfall” Above Standard Crime Drama
July 3, 2017
Features
“Awake in the Dark: Second Edition” In Stores, Ebert in the Sun-Times
June 9, 2017
TV/Streaming
Believe in the Power of HBO’s “The Leftovers”
April 12, 2017
Features
The Consummate Everyman: Goodbye to Bill Paxton
February 27, 2017
Features
Thumbnails 2/17/17
February 17, 2017
Features
Book Review: “Mary Astor’s Purple Diary: The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936”
January 17, 2017
Far Flungers
Racism, Religion and Remembering Pearl Harbor
December 7, 2016
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