Movie

  • The Green Knight

    by - Jul 26, 2021
    Light snow, misty fog, and falling ash blend in the opening scenes of David Lowery’s magnificent “The Green Knight,” setting a surreal tone for what’s to come. You can feel the chill and smell the air. Immediately,...
  • Women at SDCC At Home 2021

    by - Jul 26, 2021
    Leslie Combemale’s “Women Rocking Hollywood” was back for its sixth year at SDCC to talk about upcoming projects and the progress women are making in getting more jobs as showrunners and directors. Once again, it was...
  • Everything on Every Platform: San Diego Comic-Con at Home in 2021

    by - Jul 26, 2021
    If there was any theme at this year’s virtual San Diego Comic-Con At Home, it was platform cross-pollination. Content, product, story-telling, or as many panelists referred to it, IP, jumped between movies, comics, graphic novels, merchandise,...
  • Cannes 2021 Video #9: Conversations on the Croisette

    by - Jul 25, 2021
    RogerEbert.com publisher Chaz Ebert’s ninth video dispatch from the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, directed and edited by Scott Dummler of Mint Media Works, features her interviews with filmmaker Lateef Calloway, Georgian journalists Anano Bakuradze and Ninia...
  • Val

    by - Jul 24, 2021
    Kudos to Val Kilmer, sort of, for framing “Val” as something other than a record of things that happened. The movie even invokes the idea that fiction is a lie that gets at a greater truth....
  • Ted Lasso Brings More Subversive Sunniness to AppleTV+

    by - Jul 24, 2021
    One of the biggest surprises of 2020, aside from a global pandemic, was the success of AppleTV+’s “Ted Lasso.” Based on the NBC Sports skit character, the series starring Jason Sudeikis as an American coach in...
  • Joe Bell

    by - Jul 23, 2021
    A star vehicle for producer-star Mark Wahlberg, whose involvement ironically complicates a film that would not exist without his participation, “Joe Bell” is based on the true story of a man who walked from La Grande, Oregon, to...
  • Ailey

    by - Jul 23, 2021
    How do you tell the story of a man who, by all accounts, hid so much of himself from the public and even some of his closest friends and colleagues? The answer in Jamila Wignot’s portrait...
  • Old

    by - Jul 22, 2021
    A family heads to a secluded beach vacation. They speak vaguely of the passage of time in a way that parents often do with their children, as mom mentions how she can’t wait to hear her...
  • Reprint of Thumb and Thumber: Celebrating Twenty Years of Siskel & Ebert

    by - Jul 22, 2021
    The following is a reprint of our contributor Donald Liebenson’s article, originally published on December 10th, 1995 in The Los Angeles Times, which celebrates the twentieth anniversary of “Siskel & Ebert.” It is entitled, “Thumb and Thumber:...