"Houston makes a solid debut and looks glorious, snapping off saucy dialogue." -Variety "I felt cheated by the outcome, although I should have been able to predict it, using my Law of Economy of Characters." It takes a dizzying 360-degree shot of them...

Here it is, the world premiere of my first (and likely last) animated short film. Emphasis on short; it's only a minute long. Cue the paparazzi, I'm wearing my finest Jean Paul Gaultier tux and snockered on rum. And tune in for my exclusive...

I suppose this was a concession to the fact that by fictionalizing Miller, star Christian Bale gets more of an opportunity to play to his strengths, which has always been depicting the inner turmoil of his characters. Bale is excellent, although in his...

Join Log In Submit Story Jobs Newsletter Library binspam dupe notthebest offtopic slownewsday stale stupid fresh funny insightful interesting maybe descriptive Post "The National Association of Theater Concessionaires reported that in 1986, 60% of all...

"James Cameron avoids the pitfalls of telling a story about which "everybody knows the ending." Yes, the Titanic strikes an iceberg and sinks. That isn't the story he tells. He uses that as a backdrop for stories about hubris, greed, class conflict,...

(We were so enthusiastic that we even went ahead and splurged on that Mrs. DiCaprio Titanic stadium blanket, for maximum re-release viewing comfort, and compiled a Guide to Re-experiencing Titanic in 3D ahead of a special, sold-out Valentine’s Day...

Spam of the movie world — bland, over-processed and cheap.” If you’re thinking of taking it in as an accompaniment to Valentines Day, Liam Lacey in the Toronto Star urges you to think again. It is, he writes, a “Valentine’s date dud: Think wilted roses,...

How, then, did Roger Ebert scoop the world by seeing it three days ago and (surprise!) trashing it in a just-posted review? Titanic fans in major cities were invited via Facebook to attend special showings last Tuesday, 2.14, and Ebert somehow finagled...

As the cohost of Siskel and Ebert at the Movies, Roger Ebert shared his passion and expertise with TV viewers for twenty-three years. Now Ebert shares his personal life, in a candid, thoughtful memoir that begins in his hometown, Champaign, Illinois,...

“Albert Nobbs,” six-time Academy Award nominee (including a nomination for this film) Glenn Close stars as a woman forced to live as a man in 19th Century Ireland. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times says, “This is such a brave performance by Glenn...

Film critics like the aggregators for broadening their reach, but even they have mixed feelings about them. "They are good for critics in that they call attention to our work and find us more readers," Roger Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning movie...

The filmmaker and Fox have already been showing off a portion of the film in advance to press (indeed, we were impressed by footage unveiled at Empire Big Screen last year) but Roger Ebert seen the whole thing and banged out the first review. And he...

(Vanessa Hudgens). With elephants as small as dogs, lizards the size of dinosaurs, bees so big you can ride them bareback, an exploding volcano, the lost city of Atlantis, Captain Nemo’s submarine Nautilus, and The Rock performing “It’s a Wonderful...

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her rise to power from humble origins as “the grocer’s daughter from Grantham.” Director Phyllida Lloyd and writer Abi Morgan seem to have little clear idea of what they think about her, or what they want to say. ...

It doesn't take a crystal ball to see that this year's Academy Awards will amount to a shootout between "Hugo," with 11 nominations, and "The Artist," with 10. Fittingly, they are two movies inspired by love of movie history, the first about the...

Ebert (Credit: Bryan Bedder / Getty Images) CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - - Movie critic Roger Ebert is helping raise money for the college newspaper where he cut his teeth. The nonprofit that runs the Daily Illini at the University of Illinois is late on its...

The nonprofit that runs the Daily Illini at the University of Illinois is late on its mortgage payments and owes $250,000 to its printer. Ebert says in a letter to alumni that many journalists _ including him _ "would say that they owe their careers at...

The newspaper's nonprofit umbrella organization, Illini Media Co. , is delinquent on its mortgage payments and owes $250,000 in back payments to its printer. Given its financial independence from the university and its inability to get a loan, the...

Gabato has a daughter named Kailani (Vanessa Hudgens). These four fly off in the helicopter, are trapped in a Category 5 hurricane, which rips it to pieces, and are lucky enough to find themselves alive on the beach of the Mysterious Island. (Roger...