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Pictured above is Chaz Ebert’s daughter, Sonia Evans (left), along with country singers Kenny Rogers, Miranda Lambert, Darius Rucker and Loretta Lynn.I grew up with the knowledge that record companies geared certain music to certain audiences on the...

THE TWENTIETH ANNUAL INSTALLMENT OF EBERTFEST, the film festival co-founded by Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Roger Ebert and his wife Chaz Ebert at the University of Illinois, College of Media, is slated to run from Wednesday, April...

On the one hand, maybe I should stop being surprised by the secret greatness of movies my peers hate. It’s not that I distrust anyone’s reaction to a work of art; I think it just may...

In a year at the movies that has included box office successes for the likes of “Girls Trip” and “Wonder Woman,” the suburban moms of “Bad Moms” add to that female-led power with their new comedy, “A Bad Moms...

In the span of only a few days, I received Mondo’s first board game, a clever riff on John Carpenter’s “The Thing” called Infection at Outpost 31, saw a Facebook ad for a screening of the...

I wouldn’t have picked Chris Hemsworth as Marvel’s breakout comedy star when he was first cast as Thor, God of Thunder, but he turned out to be one of the best things about this never-ending mega-franchise....

Trey Parker and Matt Stone have never played by the traditional rules of animated or live-action television comedy but their particular brand of un-PC writing feels even more unique in 2017. And they know that. With...

“The War Game” is one of the most terrifying films I have ever seen. Although it was made more than 50 years ago, its sobering presentation of nuclear war remains utterly gut-wrenching with many unforgettable moments...

I confess, I find the gory “Saw” movies’ ridiculously severe approach to dramaturgy to be endearingly preposterous. Imagine a dimwitted Agatha Christie-style whodunit where a killer has trapped a room-full of victims in a single location. Stop laughing, Christie’s “Ten Little Indians” is spot-checked in several...

“Novitiate” is the first feature film from documentarian Margaret Betts, who wrote and directed a story of a convent in the 1950’s, as Vatican II was bringing monumental change to the practices of the Catholic Church....