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Geremy Jasper wrote and directed “Patti Cake$,” the story of a New Jersey white girl who dreams of being a rapper.  Australian actor Danielle MacDonald is heartbreaking, hilarious, and fearless as Patti, who performs under the...

“The Wound” is set in a remote rural community in South Africa, and is centered on a cultural ritual that will no doubt strike most outsiders as being barbaric. At the same time, however, it is...

The story behind “Good Time” goes that actor Robert Pattinson saw a still from “Heaven Knows What,” the 2015 film by fraternal director duo of Benny Safdie & Joshua Safdie, and knew that he had to...

The following article completes our coverage of this year’s Pens to Lens Gala in Champaign-Urbana (click here for Part I). For the fifth year in a row, students ranging from kindergarten age to twelfth grade submitted their...

The following article begins our two-part coverage of this year’s Pens to Lens Gala in Champaign-Urbana. For the fifth year in a row, students ranging from kindergarten age to twelfth grade submitted their own scripts to the...

While it is about one specific romantic relationship, South Korean film “Our Love Story” is a lesbian romance drama with universal aspects. The movie’s main strength comes from its close, intimate observation on the development of...

Today marks the 50th anniversary of “Bonnie and Clyde,” and so we’re highlighting Roger’s review, which was originally published on September 25, 1967.”Bonnie and Clyde” is a milestone in the history of American movies, a work...

“Elevator to the Gallows” is a French film noir. Specifically, it’s a French film about the French idea of what film noir is all about.The genre is usually distinguished by criminal schemes that grow knottier by...

With this Sunday marking the 50th anniversary of the release of Arthur Penn’s “Bonnie and Clyde,” we asked our writers to look back on the legacy of the film and Roger Ebert’s famous writing about it. ...

It used to be a pretty reliable rule of moviedom that sequels to inferior horror films were even more worthless than the original. After all, how do you build on nothing? Last year’s “Ouija: Origin of...