Roger Ebert

Finally, at long last, HBO’s “Industry” will be getting a primetime Sunday-night slot with its third season. First debuting in 2020, the series hasn’t been able to pick up the viewership it deserves, despite having a dedicated online following. But,...

Congratulations, Mr. Rupert Pupkin. You are definitely one of the creepiest movie antiheroes in the history of cinema, but you and your little “comedy” movie, Martin Scorsese’s “The King of Comedy,” have somehow persisted for more than 40 years, despite...

Was SDCC 'Finally Back to Normal' in a Post-Pandemic World?  That's what SDCC chief communications and strategy office David Glanzer told Variety, but is it true? As Variety notes, last year's SAG-AFTRA strike "forced almost every studio to pull their panels" and...

People like to pay a certain amount of lip service to the importance of young people participating in the electoral process. Still, in most regards, they tend to be either marginalized or outright dismissed. So it’s always a delight when...

Your investment in Zack Snyder’s creative vision will likely determine how badly you need to see the R-rated director’s cut of “Rebel Moon,” Snyder’s grim Netflix space opera adventure. This new director’s cut adds 110 minutes of footage, including a...

This movie opens with views of a manual typewriter, and indignant words being spelled out letter by letter. The time and place of this new movie co-directed by Austin Stark and Joseph Schuman, who also wrote the screenplay, becomes clear....

Once you get over the fact that there won’t be much resembling logical human behavior in “Detained,” the film that follows undeniably provides its own simple pleasures in the Goofy Escapism department. Heavily inspired by “The Usual Suspects,” right down...

Co-directors Steven Kanter and Henry Loevner reunite (after their COVID-set breakup comedy “The End of Us”) for their sophomore feature, “Peak Season.” Engaged couple Amy (Claudia Restrepo) and Max (Ben Coleman) jet off from NYC to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for...

The name Hammer used to command a certain level of respect in the annals of horror cinema - from the late 1950s to the early '70s, you could pin the label to some of the campiest, schlockiest, most entertaining creature...

Max (Ruaridh Mollica) is like many young writers I met in my 20s. Ambitious, smart, rather dashing when talking about an art he’s passionate about, which in his case, is literature and the work of enfant terrible writer Bret Easton...