Extraterrestrial life may really exist; House Republicans slash billions in food stamps; “Invisible Man” banned in North Carolina; an object of Internet ridicule speaks; Hollywood luminaries who got their start with Roger Corman.
Some of our contributors muse on pies in the movies. Yes, you read that right.
The sounds of ‘Twin Peaks’; the case for Internet newsletters; Jonathan Franzen is very, very angry; rethinking headphones; an app for building a database of everyone’s dreams.
Mamet’s screenwriting career, the hours after John F. Kennedy’s assassination in detail, why creatives are good for the economy, how Facebook keeps you from quitting, the political economy of zombies.
More debate about the future of U.S. healthcare reform; Twitch Film apologizes to director Sono Sion; friends don’t let friends remake “Ben-Hur”; how television does better by women than movies do; deconstructing a “Carlito’s Way” scene.
The 1963 Birmingham bombing, observed; J.D. Salinger as seen by Joyce Maynard; Roman Polanski as seen by Samantha Geimer; the impossibility of ending a great TV drama; R.I.P. Mr. Dolby.
We catch up with Irv Slifkin, the man behind MONDO MEYER, a Philadelphia event celebrating the work of filmmaker Russ Meyer.
This excerpt from James Greenberg’s “Roman Polanski: A Retrospective” looks at Polanski’s breakthrough American film “Rosemary’s Baby.”
Netflix’s move into television content has been bold and much-hyped. Can they get us beyond the old binary of comedy and drama that has dominated television for so long?
An ending to Roger’s “The Thinking Molecules of Titan” by Jason Pulley.
An ending to Roger’s “The Thinking Molecules of Titan” by Ellen Chen.
An ending to Roger’s “The Thinking Molecules of Titan” by Dylan Dougherty.
An ending to Roger’s “The Thinking Molecules of Titan” by Andreas Belgun.
Residents of Champaign-Urbana are raising funds for a statue of Roger outside the Virginia Theater, the home of Ebertfest.
The male bonding/rivalry and cars-go-vrooom of “Rush” leaves Susan Wloszczyna bored, but the Sandra Bullock and Dame Judi Dench save the day with great work in “Gravity” and “Philomena” respectively.
Here are links to all our coverage from the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.
The NSA plans to reopen the public vetting process for cybersecurity standards; “12 Years a Slave” and the dangers of early Oscar predictions; Disney’s new app allows moviegoers to interact with movies while watching them (sigh); our computers are atrophying our brains; “Endless Love” author Scott Spencer on how his novel become a really bad movie (twice); the final moments of Winnie the Pooh; students demonstrate against random drug testing.
How the NSA spies on smartphones; Netflix and Amazon are driving up video-streaming costs; why the American poor go without bank accounts; Laver’s Law applied to film; rape as Hollywood plot device; Louis C.K. in the 90s.
