Movie

Netflix’s newest drama “The Diplomat” could be a victim of expectations. I’ll admit that seeing it on the docket had me thinking the streaming giant was about to have an immediate hit in the “Dad TV”...

EBERTFEST 2023: DAY ONE I. “NINE DAYS” “Nine Days” screens at 6:30pm on Wednesday, April 19th, at the Virginia Theatre, as part of Ebertfest 2023. Below is an excerpt from the review of the film penned...

There are times when it feels like Peacock’s “Mrs. Davis,” launching with four episodes this week before dropping one a week on the streaming service, feels like it could take place in the same world as...

“Dead Island 2,” the upcoming first-person zombie action extravaganza with more flying body parts than lines of dialogue, is for hardcore undead-heads only. It’s a messy game, and I don’t just mean the bloodshed. The physics...

The CFCA announced the line-up and full schedule for the 10th Chicago Critics Film Festival, which unfolds at the Music Box in Chicago from May 5-11. Highlights include the Chicago premieres of Celine Song’s wildly acclaimed...

You cannot accuse “High Plains Drifter” of being a case of bait and switch. The 1973 Universal western, released 50 years ago this month tells you what it is with its first scene. A stranger on horseback...

The 76th edition of the world’s most consistently noteworthy film festival has announced most of the titles that will be shown between May 16th and 27th. There’s the Competition slate, of course, whose jury will be...

The Ebertfest Film Festival is pleased to welcome Champaign native Molly Cornyn as the new Project Coordinator at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s College of Media, the alma mater of Pulitzer-Prize winning film critic Roger Ebert. Cornyn will...

It is hard to believe it has been five years since “Blindspotting” premiered during 2018’s Sundance Film Festival. It’s even harder to believe that such an indie would also get a television adaptation spin-off. Lo and behold, “Blindspotting:...

When director Makoto Shinkai debuted his movie “Your Name” at Anime Expo in July 2016, his career trajectory changed forever. That movie became the third-largest film in Japan in terms of domestic gross, only behind anime...