Roger Ebert

On Mondays at the Wayfarer Studios offices, there’s a tradition during meetings in which everyone in attendance has to answer the same question: What’s something that’s bringing you joy that has nothing to do with work or family? This is...

The musical biopic genre is so staid, so humdrum, it’s difficult to imagine anyone having a wildly different take on it. In his directorial debut, British-Irish writer/director Rich Peppiatt, however, doesn’t just want to dismantle structures. He wants to obliterate...

From the way Chris Nashawaty breaks it down in “The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982” (Flatiron Books, $29.99), you can either thank or blame the summer of 1982 for how Hollywood blockbusters are...

10 NEW TO NETFLIX "Bone Tomahawk""The Boy Next Door""Fifty Shades Darker""Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire""The Hateful Eight""The Inspection""Land of Bad""The Teachers' Lounge""Trolls: Band Together""Wicked Little Letters" 18 NEW ON BLU-RAY/DVD "Abigail" If Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett's "Scream" films were the duo...

TORONTO--Academy Award-nominated British filmmaker Mike Leigh ("Secrets and Lies," "Naked") is set to receive this year's TIFF Ebert Director Award at the 49th Toronto International Film Festival, which will run September 5-15th, 2024. In a press release from the fest, TIFF...

“Hundreds of Beavers,” a boldly bizarre, nearly silent slapstick comedy about a 19th-century trapper doing battle with nature, exceeds expectations in every way, including the promise of its title. By my count there are thousands of beavers in this movie....

Any performance vying for being the best of Colman Domingo’s distinguished career has a high bar to clear. The actor first began as a kind of utility player in cinema, playing small, vital roles in films by Spike Lee (“Miracle...

It’s unusual for a show to lead its credits with the executive producers of the program but the names behind Amazon Prime Video’s “Batman: Caped Crusader” justify top billing. For fans of everything animated Dark Knight, Bruce Timm is a...

San Diego Comic-Con is on top of its game again, after the pandemic shut it down and last year’s strikes kept most of the filmmakers and actors away. While efforts to expand the city’s convention center have stalled, the Con...

Alex Cox burst onto the film scene 40 years ago with “Repo Man,” a science-fiction satire starring Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton, with a theme by Iggy Pop and a soundtrack heavy on punk rock. He went on to...