Remembering Gene Wilder
Self (Archival Footage)
Richard Pryor
Richard Pryor Movie Reviews
Blog Posts That Mention Richard Pryor
Book Excerpt: “Richard Pryor: American Id” by Jason Bailey
Black humor: Stepin Fetchit to Richard Pryorto Tyler Perry (Part II)
Richard Pryor: 1940-2005
Richard Donner: 1930-2021
Keep Moving!: The Films of Richard Lester.
Hanging out with Wilder and Pryor
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Stepin Fetchit to Denzel Washington (Part I)
Johnny Carson: The man behind the curtain
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)
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
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
The Case for The Card Counter’s Tiffany Haddish as One of 2021’s Best Performances
Paul Mooney: 1941-2021
The Bonus Situation: Yaphet Kotto, 1939-2021
Cicely Tyson: 1924-2021
New Works Virtual Festival Now Running Through Christmas Day
The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special Lacks the Spark of the Original
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
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
Who’s Who In Reviews: Matt Zoller Seitz
David Letterman Ruined Me
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“The N Word”: A Review by Brandon Towns
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
More sex please, we’re French
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
