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Criterion’s Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films is the Story of a Cinematic Legend
Ahead of His Time: Melvin Van Peebles (1932-2021)
The One and Only Melvin
To Make People Aware of Something is Great: A Conversation with Maya Cade
Netflix Turns Up the “Heat” With Its Own “Power” in Hokey Crime Thriller “Nemesis”
“Sinners,” “Bel-Air” Lead NAACP Image Award Nominees
The 11 Best Body-Swap Movies, Ranked
Locarno Film Festival 2025 Wrap-up
Locarno Film Festival 2025: Prejudice Across the Pond in “Pool of London” and “The Story of a Three-Day Pass”
One of Us: Malcolm-Jamal Warner (1970-2025)
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 Hard Way, Or My Way? RIP Bill Cobbs (1934-2024)
Robert Daniels & Odie Henderson Talk Wild Wild West at 25
You Ready To Be the King?: Fresh Turns 30
The Joy of Watching the Greats Continue to Be Great Well Into Their 80s and 90s
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)
The Real Deal: Tom Sizemore (1961-2023)
Stars Shine Brightly at the 5th CCA Black Celebration of Cinema and Television
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
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
NYFF 2021: A Chiara, What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?, Revivals
Jane Fonda and Three IndieCollect Restorations to Appear This Weekend at the 2020 HFPA Restoration Summit
Black Cinema to be Celebrated by the Critics Choice Association at December 2nd Ceremony Honoring Murphy, Long, Ejiofor and Lemmons
Breaking Barriers: Goodbye to John Singleton
The Power of Community: A Recap of the 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival
Body and Soul: Revisiting Michael Mann’s “Ali”
Back to “Roots” with a Multi-Channel Remake of the Television Classic
Rudy Ray Moore Blaxploitation Classic “Dolemite” comes to Blu-ray
NYFF 2015: “Miles Ahead”
Black FIlm and TV Directors in 2013: A Progress Report
Thumbnails 12/16/2013
Django Unchain my heart (and set me free)
The Best Films of 2004
The Best 10 Movies of 1991
It’s high tide for black new wave
Robert Downey Jr. plays it black
The best greatest movies ever list
Name That Director!
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 oversees the Overlooked
Ebert’s Overlooked Film Festival 2005
Ebert’s intro to Overlooked Fest ’05
Fest means more than just movies
Chicago Film Festival Celebrates 30 Years
Dusty Cohl: In Memory
Ossie Davis: In Memory
