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Tributes
I Will Always Love You: Dolly Parton (1946-2026)
Festivals & Awards
Locarno Film Festival 2026: 17 Urgent Hollywood Blacklist Films
Chaz's Journal
Chicago, Home of Great Music and Newspapers
Festivals & Awards
DOC10 Spotlights Some of the Best Documentaries You’ll See This Year
TV/Streaming
Hulu’s “Sunny Nights” Offers Split Sides, Spray Tans, and Botched Schemes
Chaz's Journal
Chaz Ebert Remembers Reverend Jesse Jackson: Oct 8, 1941 – February 17, 2026
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2026: Joybubbles, Soul Patrol, Who Killed Alex Odeh?
Festivals & Awards
Sundance Film Festival Announces 2026 Line-Up
Interviews
Healers and Nurturers: Ethan Hawke on the Artists of “Blue Moon” and “Highway 99: A Double Album”
Features
Clear Eyes, Full Heart, Can’t Lose: The Enduring Legacy of “Friday Night Lights”
Tributes
Lookin’s Free: Joe Don Baker (1936-2025)
Features
Robert Daniels & Odie Henderson Talk Sinners
Festivals & Awards
True/False 2025: Seeds, River of Grass, How Deep Is Your Love
Features
Movies to Watch if You Love Bad Bunny
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2025: Life After, Sugar Babies, Seeds
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2025: East of Wall, Obex, BLKNWS: Terms and Conditions
Festivals & Awards
Sundance Film Festival 2025 Preview: 20 Films We Can’t Wait to See
Features
The Great Performances of 2024, Part Two
Festivals & Awards
2025 Sundance Film Festival Announces Ambitious Program
Interviews
Malcolm Washington, John David Washington, Danielle Deadwyler on the Power of “The Piano Lesson”
Festivals & Awards
CIFF 2024: On the Legacy and Importance of The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Tributes
Bird on a Wire: Kris Kristofferson (1936-2024)
MZS
In the Ring: James Madio and Steve Loff on “The Featherweight”
Festivals & Awards
Telluride Film Festival 2024: Nickel Boys, The Piano Lesson, September 5
Features
The Forrest Gump Soundtrack Hits Different in the Spotify Era
Tributes
Willie Mays: The Greatest to Ever Play
Black Writers Week
Black Writers Week 2024: Table of Contents
Features
When ‘Bad Boys’ Began, Martin Lawrence Was the Top Dog
Tributes
O.J. Simpson Dies: The Rise & Fall of A Superstar
Features
2023: The Year The World Finally Recognized The Brilliance Of Lily Gladstone
Festivals & Awards
The 96th Academy Award Nominations Are Announced, Led by Oppenheimer
TV/Streaming
The 25 Best TV Series of 2023
Chaz's Journal
The Year of Black Men in Cinema: Chaz Ebert’s Top Ten(-ish) Films of 2023
Festivals & Awards
Noir City Returns to the Music Box in Chicago
Features
Bright Wall/Dark Room August 2023: My Money is Still in Your Pocket by Sarah Welch-Larson
TV/Streaming
FX’s Reservation Dogs Says Goodbye Too Soon in Third Season
Chaz's Journal
Ten Must-See Films at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival
Features
My Year with Disney
TV/Streaming
FX on Hulu’s Reservation Dogs Is As Insightful and Bittersweet As Ever in Season Two
Tributes
He Was Always Nice to Me: Gilbert Gottfried (1955-2022)
Festivals & Awards
Meet the Guests of Ebertfest 2022
Far Flungers
High-Spirited Naughtiness: Celebrating Terry Zwigoff’s Bad Santa
Interviews
You Make It to Be Seen: Wendell B. Harris on Chameleon Street
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: October 2021
TV/Streaming
FX’s Reservation Dogs Captures a Specific Native Experience
Features
The Energy Can’t Last: On the Grimy American Fringes of Jeremy Saulnier
Features
The Dark Side of Harrison Ford: On the Roles That Led to What Lies Beneath
Chaz's Journal
Revisiting My 2017 Article, My Daughter Loves Country Music, In Light of Mickey Guyton’s song, Black Like Me
Tributes
Brian Dennehy: 1938-2020
Festivals & Awards
The Best Films of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival
Features
The Lost Souls of Joaquin Phoenix
Chaz's Journal
Say Amen, Somebody Receives 4K Restoration in Theaters
TV/Streaming
Ken Burns’ Country Music Series is Thought-Provoking, Joyful
Features
Book Review: Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History
MZS
90 Minutes On: “A Star is Born” (2018)
Festivals & Awards
The Favourite, Roma Lead 2019 Oscar Nominations
TV/Streaming
Syfy’s Deadly Class Fails to Live Up to Its Potential
Features
Merry Christmas, Shirley Temple
Features
Margot Kidder: 1948-2018
TV/Streaming
Criterion Returns King of Jazz to Its Rightful Throne
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2018: Blaze
Chaz's Journal
My Daughter Loves Country Music
Features
Mitchelling on the Regular: On Elvis Mitchell and KCRW’s “The Treatment”
Festivals & Awards
A Sneak Peek at Noir City: Chicago 8
Features
Before the First Avenger: “The Rocketeer” 25 Years Later
TV/Streaming
Believe in the Power of the Word of AMC’s “Preacher”
Features
Rudy Ray Moore Blaxploitation Classic “Dolemite” comes to Blu-ray
Features
All Are Welcome: Religion at the Movies
Interviews
Working From the Heart: The Career of Nastassja Kinski
Chaz's Journal
Will Kilkeary Dies: Owner of Legendary O’Rourke’s Bar
Festivals & Awards
Disturbing the Peace: “Do the Right Thing” at 25
Features
Happiness is being on the road again
Features
I’ll never smoke weed with Willie again
Features
Robert Duvall: “Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that”
Roger Ebert
The drinker and the drunk
Tom Shales At Large
He plays the President on TV, too
Scanners
TIFF 2007: Robert Zimmerman Bob Dylan Revisited
Scanners
Have the ads gotten subtler since 1964?
Scanners
Our Hospitality: Buster Keaton and gravity
Scanners
Opening Shots: ‘Stranger Than Paradise’
Far Flungers
The great movies of my childhood
TV/Streaming
Pearl Jam at 20: American Masters? Yes.
Roger Ebert
CIFF 2009: The winners! And our reviews
Roger Ebert
“Death Panels.” A most excellent term.
Roger Ebert
Your flag decal won’t get you into heaven any more
Festivals & Awards
Oscar Nominations
Festivals & Awards
Outgoing MPAA chief gets one last shot at pirates at U. of I. film fest
Festivals & Awards
3 veteran actors at ease, aging well
Festivals & Awards
‘Louie Bluie’ at Telluride
Interviews
Peter Bogdanovich on storytelling
Interviews
My talk with Spike Lee
Interviews
Happiness is being on the road again
Interviews
Tom Cruise: Color him bankable
Interviews
Interview with Robert Duvall & Francis Coppola
Interviews
Interview with Paul Mazursky (1980)
Interviews
Interview with Billy Dee Williams
Interviews
