The Ten Best Films of 2023 | Features

Runner-ups: “About Dry Grasses,” “All of Us Strangers,” “Anatomy of a Fall,” “The Boy and the Heron,” “Fallen Leaves,” “Godland,” “Kokomo City,” “Priscilla,” “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse,” and “A Thousand and One” 10. “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt” Watching Raven Jackson’s debut feature film, “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt” (produced by Barry Jenkins … Read more

ABC to air ten more Monday Night Football games due to strikes

ABC will air ten more Monday Night Football games due to the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes stripping the fall schedule. Although the WGA confirmed today that they would be restarting talks with the AMPTP (Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers), networks are still scrambling to fill their fall schedule. For ABC, this means … Read more

Ten Must-See Films at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival | Chaz’s Journal

2. THE BURIAL I am also excited to see Maggie Betts’ “The Burial,” based on Jonathan Harr’s extraordinary 1999 New Yorker article about funeral home owner Jeremiah O’Keefe (Tommy Lee Jones) whose business is rescued by Willie Gary (Jamie Foxx). When I was a litigator long ago, Willie Gary was well-known as a successful and unconventional lawyer. He … Read more

Ten Years of Presence: In Honor of Roger Ebert and the Empathy Machine | Features

“Cloud Atlas” One of the things I admired most about Roger was that, while he often had his biases around genre (and medium, as his takes on video games can attest), the right film could hit him in a magical, undeniable way. And so it went with Roger’s review of one of the 21st century’s … Read more