Younger viewers might not realize this, but seeing videos of people kicking the bucket was not such a common occurrence once upon a time. Nowadays you could just be scrolling Twitter or TikTok and BAM,
Hey, everyone. This is a blog post I had hoped I would never have to write, and it’s surreal, bordering on unreality, that I’ve sat down to put these words together at all. I lost
Born and raised in Urbana-Champaign, Roger Ebert left his mark everywhere—as a sportswriter for The News-Gazette when he was 15, at Urbana High School as Senior Class President and co-editor of The Echo student newspaper,
We’ve all done things we aren’t proud of. Sometimes I wake up in a cold sweat of regret over all that money I took from that plane a couple decades ago. But what about the
The Chicago Film Critics Association announces the line-up for the 13th Chicago Critics Film Festival, running from May 1-7, 2026 at the historic Music Box Theatre. A blend of new and familiar voices, this year’s
I think there’s a bit of a universal shared fantasy about getting stranded on a desert island with someone you’re attracted to. Sure, it seems dire at first, but after you manage to make shelter,
★★★★ Given the success of the Paddington films – now three in, not to mention a West End musical – it was only a matter of time before other staples of the British children’s library
Jon Hamm’s impressively varied and prolific career outside of “Mad Men” has leaned heavily into roles where he’s enforcing the law, breaking it, or doing both at once. Whether Hamm is playing FBI agents in
Space: the final frontier…unless we’re talking movies, in which case the subject matter has had a train ran on it by Hollywood for decades now. But that just reflects the intense fascination the human race
It’s wild to think, going into the fifth season of Apple TV’s lush, sorely underrated science fiction series “For All Mankind,” that Ronald D. Moore‘s alt-history saga began with a simple premise: What if the