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The One and Only Melvin

Ahead of His Time: Melvin Van Peebles (1932-2021)

My Night at the Critics Choice Celebration of Black Cinema and Television

Don’t Miss IndieCollect’s RescueFest This Weekend

CIFF 2024: On the Legacy and Importance of The Spook Who Sat by the Door

Looking Into My Soul: Colman Domingo on Sing Sing

The 10 Best Fourth of July Releases of the 21st Century

The Shield vs. The Wire

Book Excerpt: Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema by Odie Henderson

The 15th Annual AAFCA Awards Announces Award Recipients

How We Got Here: Ava DuVernay on Origin

A Goodbye to Shaft, Hollywood’s First ‘Bad’ Black Man: Richard Roundtree (1942-2023)

This Story Doesn’t Stop: Director Raoul Peck on Silver Dollar Road

The Henry Ford Carver-Carson Moveable Feast Dinner Launches School Lunch Initiative

Bright Wall/Dark Room March 2023: Something Wild: The Other Half of You by Christian Craig

Stars Shine Brightly at the 5th CCA Black Celebration of Cinema and Television

Preview of the 58th Chicago International Film Festival

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Exhibition, Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898 -1971, Kicks Off with Screening Series

15 African-American Filmmakers and Roger Ebert’s Birthday Retrospective Reviews

He Made Everything Better: Fred Ward (1942-2022)

Sidney Poitier and the Slap That Shook the World

Happy New Year from Chaz Ebert and RogerEbert.com!

Home Entertainment Guide: December 2021, The Criterion Collection

Critics Choice Awards Celebration of Black Cinema & Television to Honor Will Smith, Ruth Negga and More on December 6th

CIFF 2021: Oscar Micheaux—The Superhero of Black Cinema, Punch 9 for Harold Washington, Love Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter

An Inside Look: Mr. Soul! to Stream Live Sunday, October 17th

NYFF 2021: A Chiara, What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?, Revivals

Hulu’s Nine Perfect Strangers is a Crowded, Tedious Retreat

Melissa Haizlip’s Mr. Soul! to Premiere on HBO Max on August 22nd

Mr. Soul! Nominated for Three NAACP Image Awards, Debuts Exclusive Music Video for Show Me Your Soul by Robert Glasper and Lalah Hathaway

Bright Wall/Dark Room February 2021: Who Could Ask for Anything More?: Watching Gene Kelly From a Child’s-Eye View by Ethan Warren

Mr. Soul! Nominated for Outstanding Debut Feature at Cinema Eye Honors

Mr. Soul! Extended in Virtual Theaters Through September 24th

Change How the Game is Played: On the Power of Labor and the Timeliness of High Flying Bird

Happy Place Part IV: Breathing, Moving and Grooving

RogerEbert.com Premieres the Theatrical Trailer and Poster for Melissa Haizlip’s Documentary Mr. Soul!

Real Treasure: The Reunion at the Heart of Da 5 Bloods

30 Minutes on The Manchurian Candidate

An Invitation to An Unforgettable Wedding in Rachel Getting Married

Jane Fonda and Three IndieCollect Restorations to Appear This Weekend at the 2020 HFPA Restoration Summit

Earth, Wind & Fire to Become First R&B Group to Receive Kennedy Center Honors on December 8th

NYFF 2019: A Year of Milestones

A Look Back at the 2018 Indie Memphis Film Festival

Netflix’s American Vandal Proves a Second Time That It’s Not Just a Silly Mockumentary

Comic-Con 2018: Chesley Bonestell: A Brush with the Future

The Power of Community: A Recap of the 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival

The Shape of Water Tops 2018 Oscar Nominees

Women Rock the 23rd Critics Choice Awards

30 Minutes on: “As Good As it Gets”

Emphatic and Abundant Love: The Work of Jonathan Demme

A musical soul: Jonathan Demme, 1944-2017

Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: September 1, 2016

Before the First Avenger: “The Rocketeer” 25 Years Later

Rudy Ray Moore Blaxploitation Classic “Dolemite” comes to Blu-ray

New Position: A Defense of “Under the Cherry Moon”

Timeless Horror: The 25th Anniversary of “The Silence of the Lambs”

NYFF 2015: “Miles Ahead”

Sex Symbol Without Auteur: The Strange Case of the Gina Lollobrigida Filmography

The Chase is the Thing: On Michael Mann’s “Manhunter,” “Heat” and “Public Enemies”

The Unloved, Part 13: Public Enemies

Black FIlm and TV Directors in 2013: A Progress Report

Thumbnails 12/16/2013

Sundance before it was Sundance

Django Unchain my heart (and set me free)

Film wrong! Dillinger not killed by FBI! Fact: Hoover coverup!

The Best Films of 2004

Taking the off ramp to reality

Robert Downey Jr. plays it black

Three kinds of violence: Zodiac, No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood

The best greatest movies ever list

How Not to Write About Film

Name That Director!

Prof. Cozzalio’s take-home pop quiz is due!

Odienator’s time of the mumf

“The Messenger” discussed by Omar Moore of London and San Francisco

CIFF #2: Opening weekend in several nutshells

CIFF: All our capsule reviews

Ebert’s Overlooked Film Festival 2005

Ebert’s intro to Overlooked Fest ’05

Fest means more than just movies

Wrong movies? These aren’t

Houses of pain

At Sundance, hopeful directors will do anything for a break

Chicago Film Festival Celebrates 30 Years

Cannes all winners

Declarations of independence: Before Sundance was Sundance

John Dillinger, scholar of crime: The Michael Mann transcript

Michael Mann: Seeing history through Dillinger’s eyes

Dusty Cohl: In Memory

Ossie Davis: In Memory

Director recalls blacklist in `Guilty by Suspicion’

Charles Napier: Overnight success at 50

Interview with Mary Steenburgen

Gordon Parks’ big score

Interview with Carrie Snodgress
