October 2019
John Witherspoon: 1942-2019
By EntertainerThe mere onscreen presence of John Witherspoon guaranteed at least a few moments of genuine pleasure. No matter how bad the film, he could be counted on to steal the spotlight with lines that were as quotable as they were unprintable. He was often...Motherless Brooklyn
By EntertainerThe most surprising thing about director/writer/star Edward Norton’s “Motherless Brooklyn” is how drastically it departs from its source. Jonathan Lethem’s National Book award-winning novel focused on a Lionel Essrog...Minty, Harriet, Moses: Kasi Lemmons on Bringing Harriet Tubman’s Life to the Big Screen
By EntertainerA blazing Autumn sunset quickly upstaged my scheduled conversation with filmmaker Kasi Lemmons last Friday in Chicago. “Let’s take a picture!” she said, and we quickly grabbed our phones to capture a glimpse of the spectacular...A Certain Provocation: Edward Norton on the Neo-Noir Motherless Brooklyn
By EntertainerEdward Norton wanted to make a movie based on Jonathan Lethem's novel Motherless Brooklyn when it was first published in 1999. 20 years later, the story finally comes to the screen, with Norton as writer, producer, and star. He moved the...Apple TV+ Offers Goofy, Exuberant Take on Emily Dickinson
By EntertainerThere’s an early moment in “Dickinson,” the exuberant, messy new Apple TV Plus series from creator Alena Smith (“The Affair”), when Emily sits down to write. This is no “I couldn’t help but wonder”...Home Entertainment Guide: October 31, 2019
By Entertainer7 NEW TO NETFLIX "Echo in the Canyon""Free Fire""I'll See You in My Dreams""The Karate Kid""Men in Black""Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy""The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" 8 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD "An American Werewolf in London" Criterion and Shout Factory...The World Is Full of Secrets
By EntertainerOne of the greatest scenes that film has given us involves a dramatic letter reading, and can be found in Ingmar Bergman’s “Winter Light.” Once you see it you'll never forget it—an extended monologue by a woman named Marta...The Kill Team
By Entertainer"The Kill Team," writer-director Daniel Krauss' dramatization of actual wartime atrocities by U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, is lean, sincere, impassioned filmmaking, yet it fails to leave as much of an impression as it clearly...The Academy and IndieCollect's Restored Version of Cane River to Screen in LA Friday, November 1st,...
By EntertainerSandra Schulberg of IndieCollect will present "Cane River," Horace Jenkins' recently restored 1982 gem, which screened this past April at Ebertfest, at its historic Los Angeles premiere at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and...Richard Roeper to Receive the Roger Ebert Award at AAFCA's Special Achievement Awards Luncheon
By EntertainerWe are pleased to announce that Richard Roeper, Roger Ebert's longtime colleague and cherished co-host on "Ebert & Roeper At The Movies," will be the latest recipient of the African American Film Critics Association's...
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