Film criticism gets a bad rep, but throughout the history of this beautiful art form, it has proved to be a noble and incredibly important profession. Truly great film critics have a unique capacity ...

Born in Urbana, Illinois, in 1942 and dedicating pretty much all of his career to film criticism in Chicago, Roger Ebert is perhaps the most legendary, iconic, and ...

After 46 years of “thumbs-up” or “-down” to every crumb, slab or sliver of cinematic art, it seems only fitting that late Chicago film critic Roger Ebert is the subject of a feature-length documentary ...

People love Tombstone for many reasons, like Val Kilmer's magnetic performance as Doc Holliday, or the authenticity of (mostly) everyone's mustache. But the biggest reason is how it leans into its own ...

Film critic Roger Ebert has seen and passed judgment on many a movie, yet somehow the filmmakers who have withstood his criticism over the years have never thought to make a movie about Roger ...

The multi-talented Roger Ebertwas a film historian, an essayist, and a screenwriter, but he's particularly known for what he devoted the majority of his career to: being a film critic. He's ...

Robbed by cancer of his ability to speak, Roger Ebert has been letting loose on the Internet and in print. And we like it. A lot. (That headline, by the way, comes from a comment on this post.) 3) On ...

Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...