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Chaz Ebert to Host Two Upcoming Events in Public Libraries
by admin|1 year ago|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...
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THE SECRET AGENT Trailer: Wagner Moura Goes on the Run in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Cannes-Winning Thriller
by admin|1 year ago|Hammer to Nail
After taking the Cannes Film Festival by storm, where it won Best Director, Best Actor, and the FIPRESCI Prize, writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent is one of the most anticipated films of this awards season. It stars Wagner...
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Adam Driver Reveals Steven Sodebergh’s Cancelled Star Wars Movie
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
The stories of Star Wars‘ creation are nearly (sometimes more) compelling than the films themselves––personal ambition, institutional politics, and empires (the evil of which is in the eye of the beholder) bearing a strange mirror to the dealings in a...
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Toronto After Dark 2025 Short Film Short Review: CLOWN SONG, Is A Banger
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
The sinister clown is a timeless trope of cinema and pulp horror and real life - from David Lynch to Rob Zombie, Álex de la Iglesia to Bobcat Goldthwait, and Stephen King to John Wayne Gacy. Taking the ever-loving piss...
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Hedda | Review
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
Party Time: Nia DaCosta Throws A Forgettable Rager If you’ve been looking for a jazzy, ‘50s version of Saltburn, get ready to pull out your cocktail shaker. For better, and definitely for worse, writer/director Nia DaCosta’s Hedda, her totally gnarly...
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The Next Best Picture Podcast – Interview With “Hal & Harper” Filmmaker & Star Cooper Raiff
by admin|1 year ago|Next Best Picture
“Hal & Harper” is an American comedy drama television series created, written, and directed by Cooper Raiff and starring Raiff, Lili Reinhart, Betty Gilpin, and Mark Ruffalo. The series had its world premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival where...
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Why Sundance Will (Once Again) Shape This Year’s Best Documentary Feature Oscar Race
by admin|1 year ago|Next Best Picture
Every year, the Best Documentary Feature race feels like one of the most unpredictable categories on the Oscar ballot. But, when you look closer, a clear pattern emerges. Over the last sixteen years, one festival has quietly dominated the category,...
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SCREAMBOAT 2: NOTHING STAYS DEAD: Sequel to Public Domain Horror Parody Announced
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
This news should come as no surprise to anyone. One of the recent print-bags-of-money schemes in the horror genre has been the rise of the Public Domain horror parody genre - taking popular children's properties that have entered the public...
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Brooklyn Horror 2025 Review: CAMP, Avalon Fast’s Dreamy, Spellbound-by-Grief Sophomore Feature
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Grief clings to us like smoke; no matter how far we walk, its scent lingers. Emily (Zola Grimmer) knows this too well. At 16, she struck and killed a young girl who ran in front of her car. Years later,...
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Mistress Dispeller Review: Subdued Doc Explores Saving Marriages in China
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
For as long as there have been relationships, there have also been affairs. It is perhaps one of the most durable narrative devices, so universal that just about anyone can find a perspective into such a story. To this, Elizabeth...
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