Thumbnails 2/28/14
Generation X has midlife crisis; Oscar predicability; Popular Twitter accounts making money; Casting directors getting praised for their work; Charlie Chaplin’s monologue.
Archives
Able-Bodied Actors and Disability Drag: Why Disabled Roles are Only for Disabled Performers
Scott Jordan Harris argues that disabled characters should not be played by able-bodied actors.
Thumbnails 2/27/14
Stephen Tobolowsky remembers Harold Ramis; Alec Baldwin says goodbye to public life; A snipe at Jared Leto and his performance in Dallas Buyers Club; Jimmy Fallon is not funny.
Hannibal Lecter, Norman Bates, and Those Who Kill
Three new or returning shows center on serial killers—”Hannibal”, “Bates Motel” and “Those Who Kill”—with varying degrees of success.
From The Duke to The Departed: RogerEbert.com Writers Share Memories of the Academy Awards
RogerEbert.com writers share their favorite memories of watching the Oscars.
Thumbnails 2/26/14
A grown man is addicted Legos; How we define a great year for movies; Women and the Oscars; Bourne as the best action-hero; Martin Scorsese’s New York City.
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Harold Ramis dies at 69; A look at the state of film criticism; Method acting destroying the profession; Meryl Streep and the Oscars; Sex and the City ten years later.
On “Tess”, Now Out in a Beautiful Blu-ray Edition from Criterion
Peter Sobczynski sings the praises of Roman Polanski’s “Tess”, now out on Blu-ray.
And the Winners Will Be… Our Predictions for the Oscars
The calculation of odds is finished. The campaigning is done. Erik Childress predicts the winners of the Oscars.
Primal screens: What Nelson Carvajal’s new video essay says about television
A video from Nelson Carvajal muses on film’s depiction of television as the nightmare medium.
Watching the Oscars with My Mom
Odie Henderson launches our coverage of Oscar Memories from some of our most notable contributors.
Thumbnails 2/24/14
An interview with Wes Anderson; Wesley Morris on the state of gay culture; True Detective and women; Gawker founder Nick Denton tells all; Film preservation 2.0.
“Dark Girls”: A Review by Tonyisha Harris
As part of our partnership with Columbia Links and the Chicago Urban
League, student Tonyisha Harris reviews “Dark Girls”.
The 10 Most Psychologically Rich Characters of Sundance 2014
Robert Cameron Fowler, a Roger Ebert Scholarship recipient, reports on ten memorable characters in films form the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.
If We Picked the Winners: Best Picture
Matt Zoller Seitz presents the RogerEbert.com pick for Best Picture: “12 Years a Slave”.
Thumbnail 2/21/14
The Wolf of Broadway; Kevin Costner’s potential comeback; A reporter who spent a year observing college fraternities; An examination of Kurosawa’s High and Low; Dana Stevens on Miyazaki’s last film.
