Movie

  • Bright Wall/Dark Room February 2020: Trash, Art, and Book Club: A Toast to Our Aging Icons by Carrie Courogen

    by - Feb 18, 2020
    We are pleased to offer an excerpt from the February edition of the online magazine Bright Wall/Dark Room. The theme for their February issue is “A Fine Mess,” and we’re spending the month celebrating movies we love because of their...
  • #374 February 18, 2020

    by - Feb 18, 2020
    Matt writes: For the third year in a row, I had the privilege of representing RogerEbert.com in the press room of the Academy Awards, and I got to experience firsthand the roars of elation that occurred...
  • AMC’s Better Call Saul Returns as Confident as Ever

    by - Feb 17, 2020
    “Yesterday was bad. Today, I’m gonna fix it.” – Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn) AMC’s brilliant “Better Call Saul” is about many things, but an undercurrent of trying to “fix yesterday” definitely courses through all five seasons...
  • Fantasy Island

    by - Feb 15, 2020
    While cinematic thoughts regarding Valentine’s Day naturally drift towards straightforward love stories and romantic comedies, the holiday has long proven to be a fertile period for releasing horror movies as well. When the 1931 version of...
  • Jane Fonda and Three IndieCollect Restorations to Appear This Weekend at the 2020 HFPA Restoration Summit

    by - Feb 15, 2020
    Jane Fonda, Mario Van Peebles and I will join Sandra Schulberg of IndieCollect when she presents three new 4K film restorations for their world premiere this weekend at the HFPA Restoration Summit held at the historic Egyptian Theatre,...
  • Zoe Kravitz Stars in Brilliant Reboot of High Fidelity on Hulu

    by - Feb 14, 2020
    All-time, top-five, desert-island stories in which the protagonist directly addresses the audience, adding a level of intimacy and immediacy to the telling it might not otherwise achieve. One: “Hamlet.” Obvious, maybe, but a classic’s a classic...
  • Sonic the Hedgehog

    by - Feb 13, 2020
    “Sonic the Hedgehog” is the worst kind of bad movie: it’s too inoffensive to be hated and too wretched to be enjoyable. You might think that this movie’s sad limbo state has something to do with the...
  • Love Dialogue: Céline Sciamma on Portrait of a Lady on Fire

    by - Feb 12, 2020
    Incandescent filmmaking of the highest order, the kind that burns into your mind upon first viewing it only to later reveal it has permanently branded you with its soul-reaching flame, Céline Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Lady...
  • To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You

    by - Feb 12, 2020
    The end of “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” was downright John Hughes-ian, including a big kiss between Lara Jean Song-Covey and Peter Kavinsky on a football field meant to echo Judd Nelson’s pumped fist...
  • Five Spike Lee Films Released on Blu-ray

    by - Feb 11, 2020
    Kino Lorber released five of Spike Lee’s films from the 1990s last week, some of them landing on Blu-ray for the very first time. The releases allow a look back at an incredible run, a series...