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The following Table of Contents includes our updating coverage of the 2017 Hot Docs Festival, as written by Matt Fagerholm. “A Bastard Child””Bee Nation””Bill Nye: Science Guy””Bobbi Jene””Bring the Jews Home””Communion””Gilbert” Interview with subject Gilbert Gottfried”PACmen””Playing God””Rat...

James Gunn’s “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” opens with a franchise-defining credit sequence. As an incredibly expensive CGI battle unfolds in the background, the camera stays on an adorable Baby Groot, dancing to ELO’s “Mr....

Writer-director James Cameron made “The Terminator” not long after the failure of his directorial debut, “Piranha II: The Spawning,” a sequel that he made for Roger Corman after years of serving as a conceptual artist and...

“My life is over,” replies an elderly man to Kenneth Feinberg, the notorious attorney in charge of assigning a dollar value to deceased Americans. He often listens to the Met Opera in between hearing tales of...

“I can’t believe it! I just can’t believe it! We are never gonna get ahold of that stupid lamp!” Gilbert Gottfried exclaims to a room full of adoring fans in Roger Ross Williams’ Oscar-nominated documentary, “Life,...

I admit “Strange Beasts” had me fooled at first. Maybe writing that is robbing you of the same experience I had with it, but the experience of being fooled is part of what makes the film...

Matt writes: Last month’s 19th installment of Ebertfest in Champaign, Illinois, was a tremendous joy from beginning to end. Our special guests included Norman Lear (“All in the Family”), Isabelle Huppert (“Elle”), Charles Burnett (“Killer of...

The latest edition of Scout Tafoya’s “The Unloved” video essay series focuses on David Cronenberg’s 1996 film “Crash,” as based on the novel by J.G. Ballard. Controversial since its Cannes premiere, the James Spader and Holly...

Though the drug companies in America would like you to believe otherwise, there are plenty of alternative cures to ailments that don’t involve pill-popping. It was medical marijuana that brought mobility back to my mother’s body...

I don’t know about you, but I wasn’t out there making short films when I was 12, or writing screenplays at 15. Quinn Shephard, the 22-year-old writer/director/producer/editor of “Blame” (in which she also plays the lead),...