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Criterion Venerates Three Essential Works of ’90s Black Cinema with “John Singleton’s Hood Trilogy”
Black Harvest Film Festival 2023 Highlights: John Singleton, Tyler Perry, and A Vibrant Artistic Community
Choreography on the Court: Saniyya Sidney and Demi Singleton on King Richard
Cannes 2019 Video #8: Justice Singleton, Elizabeth & Pamela Guest and the Ebert Fellows
Cannes 2019: Justice Singleton on the Legacy of Her Father, John Singleton
Breaking Barriers: Goodbye to John Singleton
John Singleton: 1968-2019
Looking Back at the Films Directed by the Late John Singleton
Singleton graduates to ‘Higher Learning’
John Singleton Recites The Poetry of Cinema
Uncomfortable Truths: “Set It Off,” “Girl 6,” and “Naked Acts” at 30
Robert Daniels & Odie Henderson Talk “Baby Boy” at 25
Hard Knocks and Rebirth in the Bayou: Alfre Woodard in “Passion Fish”
Through My Lens: The Accidental Archivist of ‘90s Howard University
Intro to Black Writers Week 2026
Highlights of Roger Ebert on Black Filmmakers for Black History Month
“Sinners,” “Bel-Air” Lead NAACP Image Award Nominees
A Preview of the 2025 Black Harvest Film Festival
11 Times That D’Angelo Made a Movie Better with his Music
50 Years Later, Cooley High Is Still Alive
Home Entertainment Guide May 2025: Better Man, Black Bag, Mickey 17, More
Robert Daniels & Odie Henderson Talk Sinners
If We Picked the Winners: The 97th Academy Awards
“Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man” Brings Marvel’s Web-Slinger Down to Street Level
Sundance 2025: Twinless, Ricky, Jimpa
Kyle Mooney and Evan Winter Go Back in Time with “Y2K”
Albany Road Interview: Christine Swanson and Renée Elise Goldsberry
Robert Daniels & Odie Henderson Talk Wild Wild West at 25
You Ready To Be the King?: Fresh Turns 30
Ebertfest 2024 Announces Full Lineup, With Guests Including Eric Roberts, Mariel Hemingway, Larry Karaszewski, and More
Paramount+’s Western Expanse Broadens With the Riveting Lawmen: Bass Reeves
American Black Film Festival Highlights
When Angela Bassett Found Her Inner Tina Turner
Rise of the Beats: On Hip-Hop and Hollywood
Sweet Home Chicago Series for Juneteenth: Celebrating Graduates of 2023
The 2023 American Black Film Festival Runs In-Person June 14-18 and Virtually June 19-25
Cannes 2023: DePaul University/CHA Youth Resident Filmmakers Isis Gullette, Unique Moore and Christal Westmoreland Arrive in the Riviera
Home Entertainment Guide: December 2022
Odie Henderson: An Anniversary Celebration
Bright Wall/Dark Room June 2022: Most Wonderful by Nathaniel Missildine
The Legacy of Gen-X Black Filmmakers
Silver Screen Approved: The Top 5 Actors from Hip-Hop
Celebrate Roger’s 80th Birthday with 2014 Google+ Hangout Event
15 African-American Filmmakers and Roger Ebert’s Birthday Retrospective Reviews
TCM Film Festival 2022: Highlights of Getting Back to the Big Screen
Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala on January 6th, 2022 Has Been Cancelled
CIFF 2021: Oscar Micheaux—The Superhero of Black Cinema, Punch 9 for Harold Washington, Love Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter
Telluride Film Festival 2021: The Lost Daughter, King Richard, Nuclear Family
Why I Keep Making Movies
Black Writers Week 2021: Table of Contents
The 2020 Frontrunners for Best Director
Goodbye to a King: On the Death of Chadwick Boseman
The Art Takes You Out of This: RZA on Cut Throat City
Celebrating Our Ebert Fellows in Quarantine
Home Entertainment Guide: February 20, 2020
They’ve Gotta Have Us Charts Black Experience in Cinema
Black Cinema to be Celebrated by the Critics Choice Association at December 2nd Ceremony Honoring Murphy, Long, Ejiofor and Lemmons
Thumbnails Special Edition: Our Cannes 2019 Coverage
Cannes 2019 Videos: Table of Contents
Cannes 2019: Table of Contents
22 Years Later, Kasi Lemmons’ Eve’s Bayou is Still Making an Impact
How the Image of Black Women Has (and Hasn’t) Changed in the Last Two Decades
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: February 7, 2019
Netflix’s Terrifying, Moving The Haunting of Hill House is Essential Viewing
Thumbnails Special Edition: “Crazy Rich Asians” and Representation in Hollywood
The Power of Community: A Recap of the 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival
The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Win Big at 90th Oscars
Inclusion Rider: Backstage at the 90th Academy Awards
The Shape of Water Tops 2018 Oscar Nominees
Roger Ebert’s Birthday 2017: Table of Contents
The L.A. Riots: 25 Years Later
Taken for Granted: Awards Veterans Like Streep, Hanks and Washington Deserve Their Nominations
Outstanding, Black Music: Raphael Saadiq on “Underground,” “Insecure”
African-American Film Critics-Black Oscars?
Video: Roger Ebert’s 2014 Birthday Celebration
Unstoppable Force: A Look at the “Fast & Furious” Franchise
Memories of Roger: My Photo Journal from the Last Two Years
GOOGLE+ HANGOUT CELEBRATING ROGER EBERT’S BIRTHDAY 2014
Sundance Report: Championing a Gem “Imperial Dreams”
Black FIlm and TV Directors in 2013: A Progress Report
The Cybermob Rules: It’s Not Videogame Culture That’s Sexist, it’s Culture, Period
Thumbnails 8/14/2013
Thumbnails 6/3/2013
DGA honors Bigelow, Cameron, Daniels, Reitman, Tarantino
Reflections after 25 years at the movies
The Best 10 Movies of 1991
It’s high tide for black new wave
“Avenge me! AVENGE ME!”
Wesley Morris’s Pulitzer Prize-winning hits
Black humor: Stepin Fetchit to Richard Pryorto Tyler Perry (Part II)
Revulsion
Shame, Tree of Life: Ambiguity or bust?
Roger loves Chaz
Two war films, worlds apart: ‘Avatar,’ ‘Hurt Locker’ lead Oscar noms
Ebert chairs indie film panel
Class of ’94 gets their due at Cannes
Sundance standouts reflect black indie tradition
