Ebertfest Film Festival Over the Years | Festivals & Awards

Ebertfest 2018, Days 4 & 5: Daughters of the Dust, The Big Lebowski, 13th and More One of the most rapturous ovations I’ve seen in the six years I’ve been attending Ebertfest was received by Ava DuVernay, the celebrated director who flew to Champaign, Illinois, amidst a busy schedule, in order to attend the Saturday … Read more

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Patton Oswalt: Talking for Clapping is a 2016 one-hour stand-up comedy special written and performed by comedian Patton Oswalt. It is a must-watch show if you want a relay of non-stop jokes and observational comedy. It has Oswalt’s signature style of turning mundane events into crackling comedy filled with anecdotes from real life. Here’s how … Read more

International distribution for Guy Ritchie’s The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare keeps the film out of UK and Canadian cinemas

Guy Ritchie’s The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is now playing in theaters throughout the United States. However, the ensemble action romp, starring Henry Cavill, Alex Pettyfer, Eiza González, Alan Ritchson, Babs Olusanmokun, and Cary Elwes, is currently absent from UK and Canadian theaters. Lionsgate distributes The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare domestically. At the same time, Prime Video inked an … Read more

Civil War likely to hang on to number 1 as Abigail and Ungentlemanly Warfare open soft at the box office

It looks like both Abigail and Guy Ritchie’s The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare aren’t likely to make much of an impact at the box office. It looks like this weekend’s two big, original IP, new releases, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare and Radio Silence’s Abigail, are struggling to find an audience at the weekend box … Read more

The Best Movie You Never Saw

It’s 4/20, and if you’re looking to chill out and have some laughs, check out the best 80s comedy you never saw – Summer School! THE STORY: A goofball gym teacher (Mark Harmon) is forced to teach a remedial English class over the summer. THE PLAYERS: Starring: Mark Harmon, Kirstie Alley, Dean Cameron, Courtney Thorne-Smith … Read more

Festive Horror He Sees You When You’re Sleeping Coming Home for the Holidays

The Horror Collective is bringing festive fear with the Christmas horror movie He Sees You When You’re Sleeping. The film, directed and produced by Charlie Steeds (The Barge People, Gods of the Deep), sees a young man’s Christmas homecoming turn into a nightmare as a killer in a Santa suit gruesomely picks off his estranged, … Read more

Part of the Solution: Matthew Modine on Acting, Empathy, and Hard Miles

Matthew Modine has been acting in movies for over 40 years. He started out in the ’80s and ’90s in a string of memorable films, including “Vision Quest,” Alan Parker’s “Birdy” (opposite another talented unknown named Nicolas Cage), Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket,” and two Robert Altman ensemble dramas, “Streamers” and “Short Cuts.” At 65, after a solid quarter-century … Read more