Festivals & Awards
The Ebert Fellows Go to True/False
Reports from three students of the University of Illinois College of Media who went to True/False under the Roger Ebert Fellows program.
Why I Love Ebertfest: A Movie Lover’s Dream
A testimonial about the power of the Ebertfest Film Festival at it’s 25th Anniversary.
SXSW 2024: Diane Warren: Relentless, Thank You Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story, Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird, Preconceived
On four documentaries from SXSW 2024, including ones about Diane Warren and Bon Jovi.
SXSW 2024: Songs from the Hole, The Black Sea, Adrianne & The Castle
On three unique films from the SXSW Film Festival.
SXSW 2024: Sing Sing, Bob Trevino Likes It, Hood Witch
On three dramas from SXSW, including the latest work from Colman Domingo.
SXSW 2024: Omni Loop, Desert Road, Things Will Be Different
On three trippy sci-fi movies from SXSW, including a standout with Ayo Edebiri.
SXSW 2024: Clemente, Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie, This is a Movie About the Black Keys
On three SXSW bio-docs on Roberto Clemente, Cheech & Chong, and The Black Keys.
SXSW 2024: Whatever It Takes, Resynator, The Hobby
Three more docs from SXSW, including an insane true crime story.
SXSW 2024: Dandelion, A Nice Indian Boy, I Don’t Understand You, I Love You Forever
On four SXSW premieres, including one of the standouts of the fest.
SXSW 2024: Oddity, Azrael, Kryptic
On three SXSW genre films, including the standout, Oddity.
SXSW 2024: Dickweed, Secret Mall Apartment, She Looks Like Me
Brief thoughts on three docs from SXSW with stories too crazy to be fiction.
War Was Not Over at the 2024 Oscars
The glamour inside, the protests outside, and everything in between.
Oscars 2024: The View from the Room
The Oscar sandwich: a slab of gloriousness between two slices of bad
SXSW 2024: Roleplay, Gasoline Rainbow, Grand Theft Hamlet
On three very different docs from SXSW that are still somehow connected by a theme of community and the need for expression.
A Great Movie Year Deserved a Better Oscars
Despite some flashes of inspiration, protest and pizzazz, the 96th Academy Awards were too routine to capture the spirit of 2023’s brilliant films and the uncertain world outside the multiplex.
SXSW Film Festival 2024: Babes, My Dead Friend Zoe, Y2K
On three world premieres from SXSW this year, including new films by Pamela Adlon and Kyle Mooney.
True/False 2024: Coming Home Again
A recap of one of the essential documentary film festivals of the year.
True/False 2024: Ibelin, Alien Island, Yintah
On three docs from this year’s True/False.
