Great Movies
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: May 2022
A guide to the latest on Blu-ray, DVD, and streaming services, including The Batman, Licorice Pizza, and Criterion editions of Double Indemnity and Chan is Missing.
A guide to the latest on Blu-ray, DVD, and streaming services, including The Batman, Licorice Pizza, and Criterion editions of Double Indemnity and Chan is Missing.
A reprint of Roger Ebert's review of Do the Right Thing, with an introduction from Brenda Robinson.
A guide to the latest and greatest on Blu-ray, including 4K editions of Speed, Donnie Darko, and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
An article about Oscar-winning filmmaker Spike Lee receiving the 34th American Cinematheque Award during a virtual ceremony held on January 14th, 2021.
The unprecedented virtual collaboration between five American genre festivals takes place from October 8 to 11.
The latest on Blu-ray and streaming, including Alita: Battle Angel, Missing Link, Transit, Fast Color, Shazam, Ash is Purest White, and a Criterion edition of Do the Right Thing.
A preview of Cinepocalypse, taking place this weekend and next week at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago, IL.
Writers at RogerEbert.com pick their favorite movies featuring aliens and UFOs.
By all accounts, 2013 has been a striking year for black film directors. But is the real story about black directors working in television?
After Vic Mackey on "The Shield" and so many anti-heroes in all walks of life in television dramas of the last decade, are audiences ready for another corrupt police officer? "Low Winter Sun," a new drama series on AMC, has Brian Tallerico wondering.
From its incendiary opening to its somber but exultant conclusion, Spike Lee's grand and important film "Malcolm X" captures the life of a complex, charismatic and gravely misunderstood man who fought for human rights and justice for Africans and African-Americans. The film, based on The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley, is arguably Mr. Lee's best and most universal film, and one of the great American film biographies.
For context, "Malcolm X" had extraordinary publicity leading up to its 1991 production. Numerous black activists in New York City and elsewhere had forecasted that Mr. Lee's film would not accurately depict the essence of Malcolm. "Don't mess Malcolm up," was a refrain the director heard over and over again.
PARK CITY, Utah--Wrapping up the final films I saw at Sundance this year:
PARK CITY, Utah -- I have seen 11 films so far at this year's Sundance Film Festival, and the most affecting involves a couple of kids from a Chicago public housing complex who were given tape recorders by National Public Radio, and asked to record the story of their lives.
Walking into Spike Lee's "He Got Game," I expected a couple of things. I expected that the movie would be a docudrama, gritty and real, and I expected that, like just about all sports movies, it would end with a big game. I was wrong on both counts.
