Blindspotting
This is one of the year’s best movies.
Mark Zupan
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Murderball (2005)
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Roger Ebert
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A jock, a champion, a movie star
Mark Zupan went home to Austin, Texas, for 14 hours on Saturday, to attend a buddy's wedding. That was his third weekend at home since April. The star of the documentary "Murderball" has been caught in such a whirlwind of overnight stardom that the latest news -- Eminem wants to play him in a fictional version of the story -- is just one more news item.
Fest means more than just movies
CHAMPAIGN -- Roger Ebert's seventh annual Overlooked Film Festival unreeled here last week with appearances by auteurs and actors such as John Sayles, Guy Maddin, Mario Van Peebles, Jason Patric and Jason Scott Lee, among others.
Ebert oversees the Overlooked
CHAMPAIGN - URBANA -- Roger Ebert likes to remind filmgoers that this year's field of best picture Oscar nominees could have been called "the movies that no one wanted to make."
Ebert's intro to Overlooked Fest '05
April 20 - 24, 2005
Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival 2005
April 20 - 24, 2005
Critics have no right to play spoiler
May Contain Spoilers
Read Editor Jim Emerson's essay on the ways he believes some are using "Million Dollar Baby" to publicize their political agendas.
Sundance #3: Of heart and humor
PARK CITY, Utah -- I knew you needed leather balls to play rugby, but I didn't know you could also use steel ball bearings. "Murderball," probably the most talked-about documentary at Sundance this year, is about the extreme sport of wheelchair rugby, played in reinforced and armored chairs by quadriplegics with various degrees of disability. It is a full-contact sport.
