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Suicide by Proxy: An Interview With the Filmmakers of The Devils’ Bath
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
This interview reveals plot details of the film “The Devil’s Bath,” and contains discussion of suicide.  Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala specialize in disturbing audiences. But “The Devil’s Bath” is dark, even for the directors of “Goodnight Mommy.”  Based on...
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Furiosa Doesn’t Feel Like Any Other Mad Max Film, and That’s What’s Wonderful About It
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
Much has been written about the presumed box-office "failure" of "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga." The quote marks are intentional: its immediate predecessor in the series, "Mad Max Fury Road," is widely considered one of the best action movies ever made. It's the only film in the series...
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DC/DOX — Washington DC’s Documentary Film Festival in its Second Year
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
When the American Film Institute moved its popular documentary film festival from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles (combining it with its AFI Fest), its former festival director, Sky Sitney, and Jamie Shor (who had guided communications and public relations) took...
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Janet Planet
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
When the young, melancholic Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) begs her mother Janet (Julianne Nicholson) to pick her up from summer camp early, it feels urgent. “I’m going to kill myself,” she says. “I said I’m going to kill myself if you...
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Willie Mays: The Greatest to Ever Play
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
I never saw Willie Mays play. A fact, through the very cruel accident of when I was born, I’ve always regretted, and one my father never let me forget. “You got a lot of great ball players today,” he’d say....
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Albany Road Interview: Christine Swanson and Renée Elise Goldsberry
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
It still feels oddly rare to see Black road movies. There are a couple of famous ones spanning genres like John Singleton's swooning romance Poetic Justice or the comedic Johnson Family Vacation. But in total there are very few. Filmed...
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Marvel’s Black Villain Era
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
The question of villainy has always been a complicated issue for African Americans in film. Being seen as full characters has been a struggle, and Black people were so marginalized in American cinema they didn’t even get to be bad...
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​Donald Sutherland: The Consummate Character Actor
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
Actor Donald Sutherland died on Thursday in Miami, aged 88. Recognizable to six decades of film fans for his mellifluous voice and probing eyes, Sutherland was as close to stardom as character acting gets. Though seldom weighted with the burden...
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Black Out: The Disappearance of Black Couples in Advertising
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
Have you been watching TV at all these days? If you have, odds are you have seen fewer and fewer Black couples living and enjoying life together in commercials. Seeing a Black man and a Black woman together is almost...
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It’s About Reshaping: David Kirkman on Underneath: The Children of the Sun
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
What if Christopher Nolan and Spike Lee teamed-up to collaborate on a film together? The results would probably be a lot like the small micro-budget sci-fi film “Underneath: Children of the Sun” directed by St. Louis native David Kirkman.  The...
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