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It was such a joy to have Robert Townsend at this year’s Ebertfest. He got the audience on their feet in order to welcome revered director Charles Burnett to the stage. The Q&A that the two...

We are in a glorious era of auteur-driven comedies, inspired partly by the genre-busting done by Louis C.K. in the best years of “Louie” and a realization that the half-hour format has become just as malleable...

I know you, I walked with you once upon a dreamI know you, that look in your eyes is so familiar a gleamAnd I know it’s true that visions are seldom all they seemBut if I know you, I...

Guy Ritchie is that fun friend whose texts you don’t always return because his energy level is always cranked up to 10, and even when you’re in the mood for him, he still wears you out....

“Snatched” is the highest of high-concept comedies. Goldie Hawn and Amy Schumer star as a polar-opposite mother and daughter who get kidnapped while reluctantly vacationing together in Ecuador. It’s a mismatched-buddy comedy. It’s a fish-out-of-water comedy....

Michael Parks, one of the great character actors of our time, has passed away at the age of 77. In a career spanning more than 55 years and over 150 credits, he was a prolific performer...

Bad pulp fiction turns readers into what Alfred Hitchcock called “the plausibles,” viewers who pick apart a work of (usually) pop art simply because it does not hue closely enough to their idea of what real...

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist (1891).The description of “Manifesto”—Cate Blanchett playing 13 wildly different...

How amazing to have documentaries from the two Lears at Ebertfest:  One, about the iconic Norman Lear, and the other by his son Ben, who is forging his own path on the issues of social justice....

In 2013, members of the Chicago Film Critics Association, of which Roger Ebert was a Board Member and Chaz Ebert is currently a member (along with several other contributors to this site), had a crazy idea:...