Movies
CIFF 2025: The Beauty of the Donkey, The Eyes of Ghana, Below the Clouds | Festivals & Awards | Roger Ebert
Documentary is a filmmaking approach inherently designed for remembrance. In fact, it’s the approach that most closely can be aligned with photography and the desire to capture a moment, a person, or a thing before the forces of time...
Movies
Season 2 of Netflix’s “Nobody Wants This” Keeps the Formula With Some Improvements | | Roger Ebert
If you’re looking forward to spending more time with the characters in “Nobody Wants This” without worrying whether Joanne (Kristen Bell) will convert or whether Noah (Adam Brody) will love her regardless, I have bad news for you. The...
Movies
HBO’s “IT: Welcome to Derry” Feels too Much Like a Sideshow in the Stephen King Circus | | Roger Ebert
It’s funny to think about how much television owes to Stephen King. High-profile adaptations of literary hits like “The Stand,” “The Outsider,” and “The Institute” are one thing, but the “Stephen King Expanded Universe” (SKEU) could be expanded to...
Movies
How to Define Freedom: Nia DaCosta on “Hedda” | | Roger Ebert
Nia DaCosta is difficult to define. A Black woman director who has established herself as a big-budget filmmaker, in her still early career, she’s creatively moved through genres and worked on different scales without firmly staying in a single...
Movies
Chaz Ebert to Host Two Upcoming Events in Public Libraries | Chaz’s Journal | Roger Ebert
I am absolutely thrilled to participate in events for two public libraries this week. Tonight, Tuesday, October 21, The Chicago Public Library Foundation is celebrating storytelling at its annual awards gala. Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Percival Everett...
Latest News
Trump says he expects to reach trade deal with China as his Asia trip continues
President Trump is scheduled to arrive soon in Japan, where new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi...