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We are pleased to offer an excerpt from the March edition of the online magazine Bright Wall/Dark Room. Their theme for this month is “Sacrifice” and, in addition to this essay by Thomas Zak on “The Last Temptation...

There’s no beating around the bush: this year’s True/False Film Festival happened a week before the World Health Organization declared the Coronavirus outbreak to be a pandemic. There was plenty of anxious discussion about the rampant...

Do you know your all-time favorite film? Does the answer come to you as easily as your social security number? It’s okay if you don’t. For the last couple decades, I didn’t really know my answer...

The front cover of Are Snakes Necessary? (Hard Case Crime, $22.99), the first novel from legendary filmmaker Brian De Palma (co-written with former New York Times editor Susan Lehman), features a quote from no less than...

Yesterday, we had to make the hard decision to cancel the Roger Ebert Film Festival. Ebertfest 2020 was set to begin Wednesday, April 15th, in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. This would have been the 22nd year of the festival...

Craig Zobel’s “The Hunt” is filled with more memes than plot. The incendiary film, which caused much online handwringing last fall, was eventually shelved after the president weighed in with an uninformed opinion. Almost everybody’s opinion...

In addition to being the publisher of Rogerebert.com, I wear the hat of a producer of film and television through Black Leopard Productions and Ebert Productions. There, I concentrate on films or projects by and about women,...

In addition to being the publisher of Rogerebert.com, I wear the hat of a producer of film and television through Black Leopard Productions and Ebert Productions. There, I concentrate on films or projects by and about women,...

For over a decade, Bill and Turner Ross have debuted some of the most moving unconventional documentaries looking at slices of Americana rarely seen. Their first film, “45365,” saw the brothers return home to their zip...

In The Plot Against America, Philip Roth’s 2004 alternate history novel, a face familiar to most Americans uses xenophobia and racism to stir up rage in a large portion of the American electorate. His hatred emboldens...