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Henry Fonda for President Review: The Dying Dream of a Better America

by admin|1 year ago01 April 2025|The Film Stage

The Academy Awards likely aren’t that important in the grand scheme of film history, but legendary actor Henry Fonda winning his first competitive Oscar merely five months before dying is perhaps one of those things that makes you think on...

Ebertfest Announces Remaining Films and Special Guests Attending the 2025 Festival

by admin|1 year ago01 April 2025|Roger Ebert

CHAMPAIGN, IL (April 1, 2025) — Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, also known as Ebertfest, announced today the final three films screening at this year’s festival, to be held April 23-26 at the Virginia Theatre in downtown Champaign: Coppola will participate in...

Prime Video’s “The Bondsman” Takes Kevin Bacon on a Drab Trip to Hell and Back

by admin|1 year ago01 April 2025|Roger Ebert

"The Bondsman" has a hard time making its demon fights seem, well, fun.

Drowning Dry Director Laurynas Bareiša on Finding Comedy in Tragedy, Nicolas Roeg, and the Things We Can’t Process

by admin|1 year ago01 April 2025|The Film Stage

Conan O’Brien can be forgiven for quipping “Over to you, Estonia” after Flow won Latvia its first Oscar last month. The concept of a shared Baltic Cinema is still a relatively obscure one: “We have this complicated identity, culturally,” Laurynas...

The Unloved, Part 135: Adoration

by admin|1 year ago01 April 2025|Roger Ebert

We look back at an underserved Atom Egoyan film as his latest, "Seven Veils," hits theaters.

What to Watch on Netflix: April 2025

by admin|1 year ago01 April 2025|Roger Ebert

Films new to Netflix this month include Bonnie and Clyde, Psycho, The Age of Innocence, American Sniper, and many more.

‘Drowning Dry’ Review: Two Lithuanian Families, One Grisly Multiverse of Sadness

by admin|1 year ago31 March 2025|Slant Magazine

The film amounts to more than a slow cinema-inflected riff on the Final Destination series. The post ‘Drowning Dry’ Review: Two Lithuanian Families, One Grisly Multiverse of Sadness appeared first on Slant Magazine.

SCREAMBOAT Review: A Small Mouse Makes for Big Kills and Laughs

by admin|1 year ago31 March 2025|Screen Anarchy

Riders on the Staten Island ferry run afoul a pint-sized terror on the last ride home, or, the last ride of their lives. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

What Are Your Favorite Roger Ebert Reviews About Empathy?

by admin|1 year ago31 March 2025|Roger Ebert

This Friday, April 4th, we will mark the 2025 Day4Empathy, 11 years since the passing of Roger Ebert. Roger famously said that movies were an “empathy machine,” and that was something he weaved into the way he appreciated the art...