While most of the broadcast and cable networks have gone
into a holding pattern during the Sochi Winter Olympics, Amazon and Netflix have taken the opportunity to offer
some interesting alternatives to downhill skiing.
An oral history of RoboCop; Sid Ceasar passes away; Shia LaBeouf has a new artistic endeavor; Social media sites as the front pages of the Internet; Roeper on Leno.
The comment on Godard’s ‘No Comment’; Polanski’s victim offers some advice to Dylan Farrow; the comedy club theory of dictatorship; Shia’s brand new bag.
Thirty years after the release of “This is Spinal Tap”, Ali Arikan looks back at this mocku-rocku-mentary.
Six recent releases on Blu-ray, including Fellini’s “Il Bidone” and two Tyrone Power movies.
Joe Dallesandro; “Blazing Saddles” at 40; women and revenge; women and Scorsese.
Post-Beatles Beatles movies; heroin and creativity; Terry Gilliam’s life in 8 movies; Hannibal’s food stylist.
Søren Hough of MovieFail.com talks about his experience seeing “Life Itself at a special screening for contributors to the Indiegogo campaign that helped fund the movie.
A plea for “sanity” in discussing Allen/Farrow; Phillip Roth on why he’s not going back to fiction; Russell Brand on addiction; The Tonight Show‘s forgotten host.
RogerEbert.com welcomes a new member to the editorial team.
R.I.P., Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Eduardo Coutinho; the Allen-Farrow thing, catalogued and linked; Kristin Scott Thomas’ ambivalence; Chuck Jones, honored.
Reviews of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s films and an interview with him about “Capote”
Actor Jim Beaver remembers the great actor Maximillian Schell.
An excerpt from a forthcoming book on Terence Davies by Michał Oleszczyk.
Criterion partners with Martin Scorsese to offer amazing treasures of world cinema on Blu-ray and DVD.
Many of the films at the Sundance Film Festival are going directly to television.
Some of our Far Flung Correspondents have written about watching the documentary based on Roger’s memoir.
Olivia Collette’s experience dealing with a loved one’s illness made “Life Itself” especially powerful for her.
