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KVIFF 2026: Wrap-up and Awards
Tributes
The Purpose of the Journey: Sam Neill (1947-2026)
Features
Retreating From The Elephant: The Perpetually Impending Demise of Indie Cinema
Festivals & Awards
Karlovy Vary Announces 2026 Award Winners
Black Writers Week
The Urban Environment: A Conversation with Tatsu Aoki, Avant-Garde Filmmaker
Interviews
Humor Is a Weapon: A Conversation with John Waters
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2026 Video #12: Wrapping Up
Tributes
The Woman Who Saved “Star Wars”: Marcia Lucas (1945-2026)
Festivals & Awards
60th Karlovy Vary Film Festival Announces Official Selection and Juries
TV/Streaming
“For All Mankind” Spinoff “Star City” is One Small Soviet Step Backward
Features
Going the Distance: Seeing “Rocky” in Concert
Festivals & Awards
Ten Great Performances of Cannes 2026
Interviews
Hearing a Movie: Daniel Roher on “Tuner”
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2026: The Birthday Party, When the Night Falls
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2026: The Black Ball, Bitter Christmas
TV/Streaming
Tatiana Maslany Goes Full Throttle In Apple TV’s Propulsive “Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed”
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2026 Video #6: Club Kid, Paper Tiger, Clarissa
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2026: Avedon, Visitation
Interviews
I’m Trying to Create Visceral Things: Boots Riley on “I Love Boosters”
Features
A Fond Farewell to Our Critic Monica Castillo
Tributes
A True American Original: Ted Turner (1938-2026)
TV/Streaming
Peacock Takes Us Back to Miami for “M.I.A” Vice and Vengeance
Features
How “In a Lonely Place” Changed Noir’s Direction
TV/Streaming
Apple’s Twisted “Widow’s Bay” is Like Nothing Else on Television
TV/Streaming
“Star Wars” Keeps Its Animation on the Dark Side (Literally) with “Maul – Shadow Lord”
Festivals & Awards
“Help Me To Find Kokumo”: A Guide To Beyond Chicago
TV/Streaming
Lisa Kudrow Makes An Extremely Welcome “Comeback” to HBO
Festivals & Awards
SXSW 2026: Beyond the Duplex Planet, Cornbread Mafia, My Brother’s Killer
TV/Streaming
Netflix’s “One Piece” Sails Into the Grand Line with a Swashbuckling Season 2
The Unloved
The Unloved, Part 147: The House Bunny & Observe and Report
MZS
A Beautiful Day for a Neighbor: Tom Noonan (1951-2026)
Women Writers Week
Dwight Cleveland on What Lobby Cards Tell Us About Film History
Women Writers Week
Milestones of 1956: Looking Back at Hollywood 70 Years Ago
Women Writers Week
To the Film Industry in Crisis, A Look Back At Hollywood In 1926
Women Writers Week
Across 50 Seasons, “Survivor” Reflects Evolving Views of American Women
Features
Life Within the Lens Celebrates Black Filmmaking
Festivals & Awards
Short Films in Focus: The 2026 Oscar-Nominated Shorts
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2026: Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie, To Hold a Mountain, Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2026: BURN, zi, How to Divorce During the War
TV/Streaming
Disney+ Brings Back “The Muppet Show” For a Clever, Nostalgic Event Episode
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2026: The Best Summer, Saccharine, Rock Springs
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide January 2026: “One Battle After Another,” “Tron: Ares,” “Wicked: For Good,” More
Interviews
Time is Very Precious: Hlynur Pálmason and Julius Krebs Damsbo on “The Love That Remains”
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2026: Birds of War, One in a Million, Silenced
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2026: I Want Your Sex, The Incomer, Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story
TV/Streaming
Cute Chaos: Penny Lane on “Happy And You Know It”
TV/Streaming
40 Shows We Can’t Wait to Watch in 2026
Chaz's Journal
Happy New Year 2026 from Chaz Ebert and Everyone at RogerEbert.com
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide December 2025: “Black Phone 2,” “Bugonia,” “Good Fortune,” More
Features
It’s Stephen King’s World: How the Writer Became the King of Hollywood Again in 2025
Features
Chaz Ebert’s 30 Best Movies of 2025 (and One Guilty Pleasure)
TV/Streaming
The 25 Best TV Shows of 2025
Festivals & Awards
RescueFest Opens with Restoration of Steve Buscemi’s Wonderful “Trees Lounge”
Interviews
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Tamara Kotevska on “The Tale of Silyan”
TV/Streaming
“Stranger Things” Sets Up Its Endgame with Quartet of New Episodes
Festivals & Awards
Reflections on the 2025 Tailinn Black Nights Film Festival
Roger Ebert
Actors Superbly Channel Siskel and Ebert Onstage in Chicago
Roger Ebert
Making Dreams Feel Real: A Memory of Siskel & Ebert
Festivals & Awards
Tokyo Film Festival 2025: “Demon Pond” and Japanese Yokai Culture
Roger Ebert
From Chicago to the World: On the 50th Anniversary of Siskel & Ebert
Festivals & Awards
Tokyo Film Festival 2025: “Sato and Sato,” “Blue Boy Trial,” “Poca Pon,” “Blonde”
Interviews
You’re Living Intrusive Thoughts: Jennifer Lawrence and Lynne Ramsay on “Die My Love”
Festivals & Awards
A Preview of the 2025 Black Harvest Film Festival
Festivals & Awards
CIFF 2025: The Beauty of the Donkey, The Eyes of Ghana, Below the Clouds
Interviews
How to Define Freedom: Nia DaCosta on “Hedda”
Tributes
11 Times That D’Angelo Made a Movie Better with his Music
DVD/Blu-Ray
Criterion’s “The Wes Anderson Archive” is the Blu-ray Box Set of the Year
TV/Streaming
Apple TV+’s “The Sisters Grimm” is a Fractured, Frustrating Animated Fairy Tale
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide: “28 Years Later,” “Materialists,” “Superman,” “Jurassic World Rebirth,” More
Features
Just Be Sure You’re Right: Watching “All the President’s Men” in 2025
TV/Streaming
Hulu’s “Chad Powers” Wastes Talents of Glen Powell
Features
The Golden Boy: 11 of Our Favorite Robert Redford Performances
Interviews
Back to Duality: James Sweeney and Dylan O’Brien on “Twinless”
Features
50 Years Later, “Sholay” Remains a Captivating South Asian Epic
Festivals & Awards
Telluride Film Festival 2025: The Bend in the River, Summer Tour, This is Not a Drill
Interviews
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Sierra Falconer on “Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake)”
Festivals & Awards
Venice Film Festival 2025: The Biennale College
The Unloved
The Unloved, Part 141: Shattered
Features
How I Spent My Summer Vacation At The Drive-In
Features
Locarno Film Festival 2025 Wrap-up
Festivals & Awards
Locarno Film Festival 2025: 14 Films Commemorating Postwar Britain
Tributes
One Final Look: Terence Stamp (1938-2025)
Festivals & Awards
Locarno Film Festival 2025: Blue Heron, Dracula, Legend Of The Happy Worker
TV/Streaming
USA’s “The Rainmaker” is a Traditional TV Legal Drama
MZS
Josh Larsen on the Return of Cinema Interruptus
Festivals & Awards
Locarno Film Festival 2025: Preview
Tributes
Life is Like a Piano: Tom Lehrer (1928-2025)
Interviews
Dead Man Walking: Taron Egerton on “She Rides Shotgun”
Festivals & Awards
Fantasia 2025: I Am Frankelda, The Devil’s Bride, Cielo
Features
Destiny Outreach: Danita E. Patterson Is Making a Midwest Hollywood
Interviews
Our Minds Have Been Colonized: Ari Aster on “Eddington”
Festivals & Awards
KVIFF 2025: “Bidad” Director Soheil Beiraghi on Filming Undercover, Amplifying the Voices of Iranian Gen-Z Women
Festivals & Awards
Introduction to the 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Features
Music to Make A Man Fly: The Power of John Williams’ Theme to “Superman”
Interviews
A Chicago Star: A Conversation with Michael Madsen
Interviews
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Victoria Mahoney on “The Old Guard 2”
MZS
The Unloved, Part 139: Rebel Moon
DVD/Blu-Ray
June 2025 Blu-Ray/Streaming Guide: “Drop,” “The Nice Guys,” “Dark City,” More
Festivals & Awards
