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“Minding the Gap” was a lifetime in the making—an account of the lives of skateboarding friends on the cusp of adulthood, one of whom is the movie’s director-cinematographer Bing Liu. It would be impressive even without the palpable sense of...

The world lost actual royalty on Thursday, August 16th, 2018, when the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, passed away at age 76. Our own Odie Henderson already paid tribute to her in his eloquent obituary, but...

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Let’s call this piece exactly what it is. It’s a tribute to Aretha Louise Franklin, the Detroit native who was many things in this lifetime: church soloist, Natural Woman, untouchable soul singer, incredible pianist, Diva, Legend,...

This year’s Noir City: Chicago seemingly borrows a title from classic of the genre itself: Out of the Past.  For the 10th anniversary of the Chicago edition of their traveling festival, which runs August 17 to...

These days, it’s never any good to be part of an elite. UNLESS it’s an elite member of an elite squad of intelligence operatives and trained killers working under the radar of official scrutiny to protect...

Midway through “The Wife,” Nathaniel (Christian Slater) asks Joan (Glenn Close) about her writing. The wife of Joe (Jonathan Pryce), the new winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Joan gave up her own burgeoning career...

Thumbnails is a roundup of brief excerpts to introduce you to articles from other websites that we found interesting and exciting. We provide links to the original sources for you to read in their entirety.—Chaz Ebert...

Fans of “The Simpsons” and “Futurama” will likely be drawn to Netflix’s “Disenchantment” because of the involvement of its creator, the legendary Matt Groening, but it’s actually the voice talent behind this reasonably funny program that...

Spike Lee was one of those directors that Roger Ebert watched very closely. He didn’t just review his films, he followed the discussion around Lee’s work, and conducted many interviews with the filmmaker himself. Like many viewers of...