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Black History Month Movie Mogul: Troy Pryor
John Ridley: Superheroes and Representation, Moderated by Troy Pryor, Streams Live on July 7th
Troy Pryor’s Creative Cypher On Way to Being Black Entertainment Giant
Book Excerpt: “Richard Pryor: American Id” by Jason Bailey
Black humor: Stepin Fetchit to Richard Pryorto Tyler Perry (Part II)
Richard Pryor: 1940-2005
Hanging out with Wilder and Pryor
A Goodbye to Two Legends: Roberta Flack and Jerry Butler
January 2025 Blu-Ray Guide: “Hundreds of Beavers,” “Smile 2,” “Venom: The Last Dance,” and More
Everything the Light Touches: James Earl Jones (1931-2024)
2024 XL Film Festival & Summit – Highlights of its Sophomore Year
The Hard Way, Or My Way? RIP Bill Cobbs (1934-2024)
Robert Daniels & Odie Henderson Talk Wild Wild West at 25
Steve Martin Is an Auteur Without Having Directed a Thing
The Throwaway Scene That Gives Blazing Saddles Its Warm Heart
XL Film Festival & Summit 2023: Highlights of an Ambitious New Event
XL Film Festival Runs August 18-20
Ten Years of Presence: In Honor of Roger Ebert and the Empathy Machine
Nina Yang Bongiovi to Receive the Variety Creative Impact Award at the 2023 Sun Valley Film Festival
Preview: Black Writers Week 2022 Kicks off on Juneteenth, Runs Through Sunday, June 26th
The Case for The Card Counter’s Tiffany Haddish as One of 2021’s Best Performances
Abe Lincoln No Malice Awards Celebrate Young Filmmakers At Shakespeare Theater
Richard Donner: 1930-2021
The Tanning of Hollywood: Reimagining Equity and Inclusion as a Pinnacle Measure of Cinematic and Theatrical Excellence
The Tanning of Hollywood Panel to be Broadcast at 3pm CT Tomorrow
Welcome to Black Writers Week
Meet the Writers of Black Writers Week 2021
RogerEbert.com Hosts Inaugural Black Writers Week to Showcase Film and TV Critics, Equity Thought Leaders and Groundbreakers in Diverse Fields
Black Writers Week 2021: Table of Contents
Last Chance to Enter No Malice Film Contest: Entries Accepted until May 31st
Paul Mooney: 1941-2021
No Malice Film Contest Extends its Deadline to May 31st
Four Quick Tips to Help You Enter the No Malice Film Contest
The Bonus Situation: Yaphet Kotto, 1939-2021
Master Storyteller T. Shawn Taylor to Host Workshop on March 6th as Part of No Malice Film Contest
Filmmaker Pamela Sherrod Anderson to Host Workshop on February 27th as Part of No Malice Film Contest
Oscar-Nominated Documentarian Steve James to Host Workshop on February 20th as Part of No Malice Film Contest
Video: Chaz Ebert Introduces the No Malice Film Contest
Cicely Tyson: 1924-2021
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and the Ebert Foundation Sponsor the No Malice Film Contest for Children and Young Adults Across Illinois to Promote Racial Healing
New Works Virtual Festival Now Running Through Christmas Day
The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special Lacks the Spark of the Original
Ebert Symposium 2020: Part 3 Streaming Today, November 5th, 2020
New Works Virtual Festival Rescheduled for November, Seeking Editors
A Worthy Cause: Kevin Pollack on the New Works Virtual Festival (Oct. 18-24)
John Witherspoon: 1942-2019
CIFF 2019: The Apollo, The Torch
I Get a Kick Out of Entertaining People: Robert Shaye, Founder of New Line Cinema and Unique Features, on Directing his Third Film, Ambition
Old Friends Who’ve Just Met: Dave Goelz on The Muppet Movie, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance and Much More
John Singleton: 1968-2019
MOMA’s To Save and Project Festival: Cane River, Crime Wave, Pharos of Chaos, The Shipwrecker
Penelope Spheeris on Suburbia and The Little Rascals
When Is a Superhero Movie Not Just a Movie? When it is Black Panther.
The Big Knockover: “Noir City: Chicago” Brings Heist Films to the Music Box Theater
Much More than “Star Wars”: The Cinema of ’77 Strikes Back at Film Society of Lincoln Center
It’s in the Details: On the Authenticity of Pixar’s “Cars” Franchise
Getting Out of Vaudeville: Demetri Martin on “Dean”
Outstanding, Black Music: Raphael Saadiq on “Underground,” “Insecure”
Gene Wilder 1933 – 2016
Arthur Hiller: 1923 – 2016
It’s Over the Ocean to Scranton, Pennsylvania: An Appreciation of “The In-Laws”
Rudy Ray Moore Blaxploitation Classic “Dolemite” comes to Blu-ray
SXSW 2016: “In a Valley of Violence,” “Keanu,” “War on Everyone”
Keep Moving!: The Films of Richard Lester.
Magical Realism: “Northern Exposure” 25 Years Later
Who’s Who In Reviews: Matt Zoller Seitz
David Letterman Ruined Me
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“The N Word”: A Review by Brandon Towns
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Identity Versus Self: Justin Simien on “Dear White People”
James Gray on His Personal Vision For “The Immigrant”
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Zombies in the Outfield and Cats in the Owner’s Box; the Top Ten Odd and Overlooked Baseball Movies
Paul Schrader: Porn Again?
B Good: A Comic-Con Panel on B Movies
Cut to Black: “The Sopranos” and the Future of TV Drama, Part 5
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Can Sarah Silverman say that?
The “gay” Dilemma: If it’s a joke, what does it mean?
To those who were offended…
A Journey to the End of Taste
Stepin Fetchit to Denzel Washington (Part I)
Before “Airplane!” there were the Airport movies
More sex please, we’re French
Johnny Carson: The man behind the curtain
This cripple is a Smart Ass
Parrot asks, “What’d the frozen turkey want?”
Apatow on how to learn nothing from a near-death experience
Jerry Seinfeld: Bee society is very human, only more evolved
Morgan Freeman: “Which me?”
Icon of the ’70s shifts into 2nd phase of career
Yaphet Kotto: “Blue Collar”
Interview with Billy Dee Williams
The ‘Confederacy’ conspiracy
