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While many people, including myself, mourned the loss of iconic Brit Joe Cocker yesterday, who died of cancer at age 70, it was the passing of another Joe that shook me up even more.Emmy-winning film and TV director Joseph Sargent passed away in his...

The ongoing conversation about whether or not we are currently engaged in the golden age of TV (we are) often obscures the actual programming in favor of grand statements about the medium itself. It loses the trees for the forest. So while it's...

The infectious excitement, familial atmosphere and cinematic euphoria of Ebertfest is captured in this wonderful 14-minute video from the talented crew at Shatterglass Studios. Shot this past April at the 16th annual installment of Roger Ebert's...

Dear Angelina,Please don't whitewash Cleopatra.Judging by that recent picture of you and Sony chief Amy Pascal, I’m sure you’re still pretty salty over her comments about you. As well you should be. The now infamous email exchange...

In the wake of the mammoth commercial and critical success of his last film, the 2011 franchise reviver "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," British filmmaker Rupert Wyatt was in a position where he presumably could have signed on to any sure-fire...

Sienna Miller is noticeably changing the arc of her career. After doing the best work of her life so far in HBO’s excellent “The Girl,” she switched focus, taking smaller parts in bigger films like Bennett Miller’s...

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardennes find a way to turn relatable human frailty and emotion into art. They have done so again with their stunning “Two Days, One Night,” a film that the critics of this site have already deemed one of the best of...

“The Spy Who Loved Me” (1977) is among the most outlandish James Bond movies, not exactly a staple of cinema realism to begin with. None of its characters can be described as three-dimensional, nor their relationships particularly...

This month, director Ava DuVernay made film history when she because the first black female director to be nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Director for her extraordinary “Selma.” No small feat since that also makes her only the...

Fresh from its highly successful theatrical exhibition, LIFE ITSELF will make its global television debut on CNN/U.S. on Sunday, Jan. 4 at 9:00pm and 11:00pm Eastern. LIFE ITSELF, based upon the 2011 memoir of the same title, written by legendary...