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“If I’m the guy who ends up in a wheelchair in the nursing home, staring at the ceiling, I’ve told my family you can bet I’m making some movie in my head.” – George Miller, Blood,...

The latest conjuring from the DIY filmmaking group known as the Adams family is “Hellbender,” a punk rock horror story of a self-isolated mother (Toby Poser) and daughter (Zelda Adams) who rock out together, and share a long-buried witchy...

Horror has always been a home for DIY filmmaking. There’s something magical about a group of like-minded people who go into the woods and come out with a work of art. Sometimes it’s “The Evil Dead”...

With “Cyrano,” Joe Wright delivers one from the heart—not that he ever makes movies any other way.  Lavish, effusive, and disarmingly sincere, all the British director’s best films since 2005’s “Pride & Prejudice” have felt like...

I approached “Vikings: Valhalla” with a heavy skepticism. Never a big fan of the History channel original and somewhat exhausted by period action tropes, I didn’t see what this sequel series could offer. And, yes, you...

The best South Korean film from last year, Lee Tae-gyeom’s “I Don’t Fire Myself” is a sobering social drama about one ordinary woman’s hard and desperate struggle for her life and existence. Often reminiscent of the comparable works of...

To not be uncomfortable with our history as Americans is to be in denial of it. Censoring the atrocities in our collective past so as not to disturb students and their parents does nothing more than...

The following obituary for Josephine Minow, wife of 72 years to Newton Minow and mother of RogerEbert.com Assistant Editor Nell Minow, was written by Katie Anthony and originally published on February 19th at the Chicago Sun-Times....

The College of Media at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is excited to announce that the Roger Ebert Center for Film Studies will officially launch this year, with programming to begin in Fall 2022.  Thanks to...

A dazzlingly imaginative new film by Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney, “Strawberry Mansion” (in select theaters now) is set in the year 2035 and stars Audley as James Preble, a “dream auditor” for the U.S. government. In...