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Chaz Ebert Launches National Awards to Honor Acts of Forgiveness, Empathy, Compassion, and Kindness as Siskel & Ebert Approaches 50th Anniversary | Chaz’s Journal

The FECK Awards spotlight the power of everyday heroes and bold visionaries who elevate humanity through action, proving that compassion and kindness aren’t just ideals, but powerful forces reshaping lives and communities Chicago (October 15, 2025) – Chaz Ebert—CEO of RogerEbert.com, humanitarian, film producer, and wife of the late Pulitzer Prize-winner Roger Ebert—today announced that

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“Battlefield 6” Seeks to Reclaim the Front Line of Multiplayer Shooters | Video Games

“Battlefield” has been around for over two decades. Still, even its most diehard fans would probably argue that it’s been a bit of a non-factor in the first-person shooter conversation for much of the second half of that timespan, after the disappointing “Battlefield V” in 2018 and “Battlefield 2042” in 2021, a game so broken

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CBS Wants Your Sitcom Time to Be Spent at the “DMV” | TV/Streaming

There’s something comforting about a well-done workplace comedy. It’s the relatability of people sanded down by capitalism, forced to go into cubicles or other office spaces like so many viewers do every Monday, which usually allows for a bit of perspective. Think your job sucks? At least you don’t work at the DMV. That’s the

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Netflix’s “Boots” is a Trite Coming-of-Age Tale with a Hollow Corps | TV/Streaming

Basic training in the United States Marine Corps is a lonely business. So lonely, in fact, that 18-year-old Cameron Cope (Miles Heizer, “13 Reasons Why”), the central protagonist of Netflix’s new series “Boots,” frequently has conversations with his hidden queer self. Though dressed alike, Cope’s concealed persona is blunt, witty, and encouraging, while the Cameron

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What Really Matters is What You Like: “High Fidelity” at 25 | Features

When we look back at John Cusack’s expressive and bruised-heart romantic Rob Gordon in “High Fidelity” a quarter-century after the film’s release, there’s little doubt Rob was often a petulant and immature narcissist who filtered nearly every life experience only through what it meant to him. At times, it seemed like it would shock Rob

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Criterion’s “The Wes Anderson Archive” is the Blu-ray Box Set of the Year | DVD/Blu-Ray

Collectors of physical media need to get their hands on Criterion’s box set of the year, a beautiful collection of the first ten films by writer/director Wes Anderson. Criterion has released Wes Anderson films before, but this is the first time they’ve assembled them into a box set, and they’ve marked the occasion with new

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Just Be Sure You’re Right: Watching “All the President’s Men” in 2025 | Features

As idealistic as he was photogenic–my favorite Letterboxd comment in the wake of Robert Redford’s Sept. 16 death was “r.i.p … you were fine as hell”—the actor, movie star, director, and activist believed in the power of the press. Redford lived enough years, 89 of them, to see mass media in its least fraught, least

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Hulu’s “Chad Powers” Wastes Talents of Glen Powell | TV/Streaming

The new Hulu series “Chad Powers” combines the “over-the-hill athlete makes a comeback” movie and the “person wears prosthetic makeup to pretend to be somebody else” movie. It’s not a combination that has been attempted before, to my knowledge, and when you watch even one episode, you’ll understand why. Glen Powell, who also executive-produced, plays

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NYFF 2025: The 63rd New York Film Festival Centers Film and Poetry | Festivals & Awards

About midway through Kent Jones’ “Late Fame,” I heard the last thing I ever expected to hear at the New York Film Festival: the voice of Ezra Pound. The aged speaker is not identified, nor is the poem he’s reciting; if you don’t know one or both, it won’t register. The film’s protagonist, Ed Saxberger

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Fantastic Fest 2025: CAMP, Bad Haircut, Theater is Dead | Festivals & Awards

My final dispatch from the annual genre fest known as Fantastic Fest highlights three young filmmakers, a reminder of how much this event seeks to amplify new talent. It’s also a remarkable showcase for inclusivity, as the programming team seeks out and elevates the kind of voices that the Hollywood system often ignores, including LGTBQ

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