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Freeman Movie Reviews
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Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2026: Tender Loving Care, Bucking Fastard, A Long Winter
TV/Streaming
A-List Cast Continues to Make “Lioness” the Queen of the Streaming Jungle
Black Writers Week
What is the State of the Black Movie Star?
Festivals & Awards
If We Picked the Winners: The 98th Academy Awards
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2026: Chasing Summer, Frank & Louis, The Friend’s House is Here, Run Amok
TV/Streaming
“Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials” Will Send Your Snooze Button Into Overdrive
Festivals & Awards
“Sinners,” “Bel-Air” Lead NAACP Image Award Nominees
TV/Streaming
The 25 Best TV Shows of 2025
Festivals & Awards
Sundance Film Festival Announces 2026 Line-Up
Features
Right Now, It’s Important: An Ode to S.E. Hinton’s Teenagers
Interviews
My Window into Culture: Rachael Abigail Holder on “Love, Brooklyn”
TV/Streaming
MGM+ Adaptation of Stephen King’s “The Institute” Won’t Keep Students Awake
Interviews
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Victoria Mahoney on “The Old Guard 2”
Black Writers Week
Intro to Our Juneteenth Edition of Black Writers Week 2025
Features
The Glorious Year of Morgan Freeman
TV/Streaming
The CW’s “Sherlock & Daughter” Appears to be Made for No One
Features
He Never Made the Same Choice Twice: 10 of Our Favorite Gene Hackman Performances
Festivals & Awards
Anora’s Real-Life Fairytale: Five-Oscar Victory for Indie Film
Interviews
Female Filmmakers In Focus: Zeinabu irene Davis on “Compensation”
DVD/Blu-Ray
January 2025 Blu-Ray Guide: “Hundreds of Beavers,” “Smile 2,” “Venom: The Last Dance,” and More
Festivals & Awards
2025 Sundance Film Festival Announces Ambitious Program
TV/Streaming
Prime Video’s “Cross” Adaptation is Killer
Festivals & Awards
Black Harvest Film Festival 2024 Preview
Festivals & Awards
CIFF 2024: Compensation, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Save the Children
Festivals & Awards
CIFF 2024: On the Legacy and Importance of The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Tributes
The Hard Way, Or My Way? RIP Bill Cobbs (1934-2024)
Black Writers Week
Robert Daniels & Odie Henderson Talk Wild Wild West at 25
Features
Phil Lord and Chris Miller Made the Multiplex Safe for ‘The Fall Guy’
MZS
Speed Kills: On the 25th Anniversary of Go
MZS
The Scene That Clint Eastwood Cut to Make Unforgiven a Classic
Festivals & Awards
SXSW Film Festival 2024: Babes, My Dead Friend Zoe, Y2K
Features
2023: The Year of the Teacher
Features
Saltburn and Subverting the Passing Narrative
Festivals & Awards
Noir City Returns to the Music Box in Chicago
TV/Streaming
Taylor Sheridan Stretches Himself Beyond Mission Parameters with Special Ops: Lioness
TV/Streaming
Marvel’s Secret Invasion Continues the Franchise’s Dull Slate
TV/Streaming
The Righteous Gemstones Treads Familiar Ground in Season Three
Features
A Road Paved with Bloodshed: High Plains Drifter Turns 50
TV/Streaming
Hulu Adds Tawdry Steam to Their Scandal-Lite Series Reasonable Doubt
Festivals & Awards
Mr. Soul! Wins 2022 Peabody Award
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: April 2022
Festivals & Awards
Meet the Guests of Ebertfest 2022
TV/Streaming
Peacock’s Bel-Air Fights to Take the TV Throne
TV/Streaming
The Righteous Gemstones Returns with Funny, Clever Second Season
Festivals & Awards
CIFF 2021: Oscar Micheaux—The Superhero of Black Cinema, Punch 9 for Harold Washington, Love Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter
Black Writers Week
Escape Pod: Death, the Universe, and Everything by Sherin Nicole
Features
You Don’t Think the Future Knows How to Cross A Bridge: Relighting The Bonfire of the Vanities
TV/Streaming
Star Trek Universe Expands with the Slight Lower Decks
Features
SDCC 2020: Star Trek Universe Expands to Lower Decks
TV/Streaming
Cast Separates FX’s Breeders From the Pack
TV/Streaming
Creators of Modern Sherlock Bring Dracula to Life on Netflix
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2020 Announces Competition, Midnight, Premiere Titles and More
Features
John Witherspoon: 1942-2019
TV/Streaming
Danny McBride Returns to HBO with Uneven The Righteous Gemstones
Festivals & Awards
BAMCinemaFest 2019 Preview and Highlights
Features
Rock and Roll Me: On Andrea Riseborough’s Spellbinding 2018 Performances
Interviews
Melancholy Optimist: Paweł Pawlikowski on Cold War
Features
Tom Wolfe: 1931-2018
Festivals & Awards
Tribeca 2018: The Seagull, Dead Women Walking, Cargo
Features
R. Lee Ermey: 1944-2018
Festivals & Awards
Preview of the 21st Chicago European Union Film Festival
Features
Short Films in Focus: No Other Way to Say It
MZS
Dreams of Africa: The Fantasy Politics of Black Panther
Chaz's Journal
When Is a Superhero Movie Not Just a Movie? When it is Black Panther.
Features
“A Wrinkle in Time,” “Mary Poppins Returns,” “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” and More at D23 Expo 2017
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2017: “Claire’s Camera,” “Filmworker,” “Unforgiven”
Chaz's Journal
2017 Gracie Award Winners to Be Honored on June 6th
Features
Non-Stop Action, Festival Favorites and More: A Winter 2017 Film Preview
Features
Thumbnails 11/9/2016
Features
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Far Flungers
Distance to Greatness: “Ben-Hur” 2016 vs. “Ben-Hur” 1959
Far Flungers
Islam in Western Cinema, Part 4 – The Journey through American Islam
Festivals & Awards
A Sneak Peek at Noir City: Chicago 8
Interviews
The Magic Touch: Dave Franco on “Now You See Me 2”
Far Flungers
The “Shawshank” Greatness, Part II
Features
Thumbnails 5/5/16
Features
2016 Summer Movie Preview: A Four-Month, Blockbuster Festival, Part II
Chaz's Journal
Roger’s Favorites: Denzel Washington
Features
Thumbnails 4/1/16
Features
Patty Duke: 1946-2016
Festivals & Awards
#OscarsSoWhite and Extending Diversity
TV/Streaming
FX’s “Fargo” Maintains High Quality in Second Chapter
Festivals & Awards
Fantasia Fest’s Frontières market is trying to change how genre films get made
Features
Thumbnails 6/15/15
Features
The enemies within the work of Andrew Niccol
Interviews
Blythe Danner on “I’ll See You in My Dreams”
Features
Thumbnails 5/4/15
Features
2015 Summer Movie Preview: A Four-Month, Blockbuster Festival
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: January 21, 2014
TV/Streaming
The Ten Best TV Programs of 2014
Features
Thumbnails 12/18/14
Interviews
Interview: Benedict Cumberbatch on “Penguins of Madagascar”
Features
Thumbnails 10/16/14
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: September 25, 2014
Festivals & Awards
TIFF Interview: Kevin Kline on “My Old Lady”
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2014, Day Four: “Men, Women & Children,” “Ruth & Alex,” “Boychoir”
Festivals & Awards
