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At a time when film festivals are going mostly virtual or shuttering altogether, the Chicago Media Project has taken the unexpected step of expanding their reach, starting satellite versions of their annual Chicago fest Doc10. The...

A stately home is on fire. Its big, gorgeous windows, perfectly suited to catching the scent of the magnolia trees, now frame flames; its white columns darken with soot. A blonde emerges, the red of her...

It is unusual for a site devoted to movies and television to pay tribute to a Supreme Court Justice. But Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in addition to being a brilliant thinker and jurist, was an icon to...

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...

“Empathy. That is something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately. The ability to walk in someone else’s shoes. The recognition that someone else’s experience has value too.”—Michelle Obama I couldn’t have put it better myself....

Sam Soko’s “Softie” opens on a tumultuous scene of preparation. Activists and demonstrators in Nairobi, Kenya, are rounding up stray pigs to paint the names of corrupt politicians. Once on the street, the now decorated pigs...

A middle class husband and wife, Kiyokazu (Arata Iura) and Hikari (Aju Makita), find themselves incapable of conceiving. Rather than give up, they enlist an adoption service called Baby Baton. The company—whose slogan is “Pass the...

The ladies are in the kitchen cooking. As they chop and simmer, they suddenly break into song. It’s a tender lover’s lament, rendered a capella, with a high note that one of the women nails with...

Midnight Madness has always been one of my favorite programs at the Toronto International Film Festival, but part of the joy of that program is usually seeing how crowds respond to a movie’s jumps and shocks being...

“Antebellum” has aspirations of mind-blowing narrative complexity along the lines of an M. Night Shyamalan movie, but instead leaves you stunned in a WTF-did-I-just-watch sort of daze. And not in an enjoyable way, as in the...