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A career view on Bill Murray; Personally connecting to Her; An editor from The New Yorker waxes poetic on aging, intimacy and death; Long takes on television; and a Hollywood desert land.
A career view on Bill Murray; Personally connecting to Her; An editor from The New Yorker waxes poetic on aging, intimacy and death; Long takes on television; and a Hollywood desert land.
Omer M. Mozaffer champions Barkhad Abdi for Best Supporting Actor of 2013.
Old films into purgatory; A Nine to Five reevaluation; True Detective and literary references; Internet trolls are the worst; and a Studio Ghibli retrospective.
As part of our partnership with Columbia Links and the Chicago Urban
League, student Tonyisha Harris reviews “The Central Park Five”.
As part of our partnership with Columbia Links and the Chicago Urban
League, student Solomon Davis reviews “The Central Park Five”.
As part of our partnership with Columbia Links and the Chicago Urban
League, student Briana A. Williams reviews “The Central Park Five”.
Writer Glenn Kenny responds to our Movie Love Questionnaire.
Glenn Kenny champions Lupita Nyong’o for Best Supporting Actress of 2013.
A conversation on The Lego Movie; Examination of Paul Verhoeven; Arguing for Steve McQueen as “Best Director”; Martin Scorsese objectifying women in movies; Mindful retweeting.
Three films at the Sundance Film Festival explored the power of making the camera see from the perspective of someone in the film.
While most of the broadcast and cable networks have gone
into a holding pattern during the Sochi Winter Olympics, Amazon and Netflix have taken the opportunity to offer
some interesting alternatives to downhill skiing.
An oral history of RoboCop; Sid Ceasar passes away; Shia LaBeouf has a new artistic endeavor; Social media sites as the front pages of the Internet; Roeper on Leno.
Peter Bart has set up a straw-man argument about critics, Academy voters and “entertainment value.” Erik Childress takes it apart.
Roger
Ebert will join a select group of journalists on Tuesday, February 11, 2014 when
he is honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the University of Illinois
at a ceremony in Chicago, Illinois.
The comment on Godard’s ‘No Comment’; Polanski’s victim offers some advice to Dylan Farrow; the comedy club theory of dictatorship; Shia’s brand new bag.
Thirty years after the release of “This is Spinal Tap”, Ali Arikan looks back at this mocku-rocku-mentary.
Six recent releases on Blu-ray, including Fellini’s “Il Bidone” and two Tyrone Power movies.