The old saying goes “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” That is especially true in the world of movies. There isn’t a film out there that everyone universally loves or everyone universally hates. There are people who think The Godfather is overrated and people who think Gigli is a misunderstood classic. Cinematic beauty is always in the eyes … Read more
The original cast of Good Times react to the controversial trailer for Netflix’s upcoming animated reboot series. The first trailer for Netflix’s animated reboot of the iconic ’70s sitcom Good Times was released last week, and the reaction has been… let’s say, mixed. The original Norman Lear sitcom ran for six seasons from 1974 to … Read more
86-year-old Billy Dee Williams is down to play Lando Calrissian again…provided he gets paid enough to return. Star Wars fans haven’t seen Lando Calrissian – that is, the Billy Dee Williams version – on the big screen in five years. But will we ever again? With so many Star Wars projects on the horizon, it’s … Read more
Every now and then, it’s fun to look at websites like Rotten Tomatoes to see how your favorite or least favorite movies did in the critical rating algorithms on which their percentage scores are based. Sometimes, it’s not so fun, especially when one of your most beloved movies ends up saddled with that dreaded green … Read more
About five minutes into the new remake of Road House, its hero comes close to killing himself by deliberately parking his car on some train tracks as a locomotive comes barreling through an intersection. At the last minute he changes his mind. The hero survives by the thinnest of margins; so thin, in fact, that the back of his beater gets … Read more
The International Corporate Governance Network, with members who oversee more than $77 trillion in investment capital on behalf of working people, presented lifetime achievement awards to governance pioneers in Washington DC on March 7. One of the awardees was RogerEbert.com Contributing Editor Nell Minow, who is also a lawyer working on behalf of shareholders for … Read more
For more than 40 years, the Golden Raspberry Awards — better known as “The Razzies” — have been given out the weekend of the Academy Awards to the worst movies of the year. Or at least that’s how they’re supposed to work. In practice, Razzie voters (at last public count, according to the Razzies’ website, … Read more
I saw “The Phantom Menace” at the now-defunct Ziegfeld movie palace in New York with my wife and my younger brother, also major fans of the series. We walked out in muted silence, then spent the next few hours trying to convince ourselves that we’d had a good time. We had to admit that, except … Read more
Let’s be clear: Cinephiles, we want films to be good. We’re movie lovers! We love movies. It’s right there in the job description. Sometimes, though, things don’t work out. Not every movie is going to be a 10/10 winner. Or even a 8/10 winner. Or a 6/10. And when they go bad, it can go one of two … Read more
Cillian Murphy says that Wes Craven’s Red Eye isn’t a good movie but reveals what attracted him to the role. Just two months after the release of Batman Begins, Cillian Murphy was back in theaters with Red Eye, a psychological thriller directed by Wes Craven. Although the film received decent reviews and was a box-office … Read more