Roger Ebert
- Roger Ebert ( Middle East ) 2025/5/13
Those who fell in love with “LOST” in the 2000s would have bet good money that Josh Holloway was destined to become a star. As Sawyer, the c...
- Roger Ebert ( Middle East ) 2025/5/12
The Cannes Film Festival is taking off today, May 12th. Well known as one of the most famous film festivals in the world, it’s also known as...
- Roger Ebert ( Middle East ) 2025/5/11
Ours is an extended family with a lot of tragedy in it, but Jan Dawson’s was unique.Jan was the mother of two daughters, Jen, the mother...
- Roger Ebert ( Middle East ) 2025/5/10
“DOOM” and I go way back (and I’m not talking about the 2005 movie that Roger notoriously hated). I’m old enough, young readers, to fondly r...
- Roger Ebert ( Middle East ) 2025/5/8
In an age of absurdly serialized storytelling and streaming series that structure their seasons like a “ten-hour movie,” Buddha bless shows...
- Roger Ebert ( Middle East ) 2025/5/7
What can we look to during these fraught times to keep our hope alive? Fred Rogers reminded us to “look for the helpers,” and there are thre...
- Roger Ebert ( Middle East ) 2025/5/7
Acclaimed Georgian filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili makes films that transport the viewer both to the rural region, at the foot of the Caucasus...
- Roger Ebert ( Middle East ) 2025/5/6
It’s time to take a break from the kinds of social injustice movies covered in this column for the past few months and, instead, shift to mo...
- Roger Ebert ( Middle East ) 2025/5/5
Roger Ebert once observed on Robert Altman: “There may not have been a director who liked actors more.” Altman’s 1999 film “Cookie’s Fortune...
- Roger Ebert ( Middle East ) 2025/5/1
This week, my friend Bridget Mallon passed away in her sleep at the age of 34. The country’s been going to hell in a hurry, but there’s alwa...
- Roger Ebert ( Middle East ) 2025/4/30
If you were at the 2024 Chicago Critics Film Festival, you could have seen the first Windy City screenings of “Sing Sing,” “Thelma,” “In a V...
- Roger Ebert ( Middle East ) 2025/4/29
Every April, artists and art supporters gather at the 40-year-old Enzian Theatre in North Orlando (and a nearby multiplex), a place of great...
- Roger Ebert ( Middle East ) 2025/4/28
We are incredibly proud to present an excerpt from the excellent Gandolfini: Jim, Tony & the Life of a Legend by Jason Bailey. The author of...
- Roger Ebert ( Middle East ) 2025/4/25
The ILLUMINATE Film Festival’s stated mission is to elevate human consciousness and inspire lasting personal, social, and planetary transfor...
- Roger Ebert ( Middle East ) 2025/4/25
One throughline of Welsh director Gareth Evans’ films is their punishing bleakness. Best known for the Indonesian crime martial arts films l...
- Roger Ebert ( Middle East ) 2025/4/24
The following is a conversation between Robert Daniels and Odie Henderson conducted over email about Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners,” a Southern Go...
- Roger Ebert ( Middle East ) 2025/4/24
Like the medical dramas of the 2000s, the following decade was swamped by shows about dance. One of the most prevalent was Amy Sherman-Palla...
- Roger Ebert ( Middle East ) 2025/4/23
Video game writers have become much more adept at using death as something more worthwhile than a dramatic plot device over the last decade...
- Roger Ebert ( Middle East ) 2025/4/23
Today marks the opening night of EbertFest! Every year, fans of Roger (and the movies) flock to You can find all the information (includ...
- Roger Ebert ( Middle East ) 2025/4/22
Set within the Chinese diaspora massage parlors, restaurants, and construction sites of Flushing, Queens, “Blue Sun Palace” is a deeply empa...
- Roger Ebert ( Middle East ) 2025/4/21
“Andor” opens its second season with a micro version of what it does so well: a scene of sharp intellect about becoming who you are when you...
- Roger Ebert ( Middle East ) 2025/4/19
From April 23-26, 2025, Roger Ebert’s official film festival, EbertFest, will celebrate its 26th year with a host of new festival favorites...
- Roger Ebert ( Middle East ) 2025/4/18
One of the great joys when watching a Ryan Coogler project is seeing how he’ll remix seemingly unrelated stories, themes, and genres into a...
- Roger Ebert ( Middle East ) 2025/4/17
Thousands of versions of Cinderella exist throughout the world, but it’s safe to say that only one variant of the classic fairy tale feature...
- Roger Ebert ( Middle East ) 2025/4/16
We’ve seen a lot of Sherlock Holmes variations. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories debuted way back in 1887, and it seems like every few years...