OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN by Nell Minow “She was ideally cast as the sweet, confused Sandy, singing about holding hands and drinking lemonade. And that is why her transformation at the end, with those iconic skin-tight leather pants, is such a shock. We might disapprove for many reasons of a girl changing her personality and pretending to

This was a core belief of Roger’s right up to April 4th, 2013, when he passed away. On this, the tenth anniversary of his death, we will commemorate him at the 23rd edition of Roger Ebert’s Film Festival (“Ebertfest”) with films, events and guests who reflect that principle. While we usually don’t have specific themes

The Unloved is silently dedicated in perpetual honor of Edgar G. Ulmer, the golden age director whom Hollywood showed the shabbiest treatment. Blacklisted from the majors for loving the wrong woman, he spent his life in pursuit of the meager means to bare his soul while working a series of low budget genre films. Even

101 films to look forward to in 2023 – part two About Little White Lies Little White Lies was established in 2005 as a bi-monthly print magazine committed to championing great movies and the talented people who make them. Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism, we’ve been described as being “at the vanguard of the

Barbara Walters grew up in the glamorous-adjacent world of Lou Walters, the man she described in her memoir as “my brilliant and mercurial impresario of a father.” Lou Walters was an agent going back to the days of vaudeville, the son of Eastern European Jewish immigrants who came to the United States at age 15. His

Here’s where things get a little tricky because what a critic would normally reveal in a synopsis could be something you don’t see until the seventh episode you watch, so I’ll tread lightly. The always-great Giancarlo Esposito plays Leo Pap, the Danny Ocean of this crew of misfits who has been dragged back into a

101 films to look forward to in 2023 – part one About Little White Lies Little White Lies was established in 2005 as a bi-monthly print magazine committed to championing great movies and the talented people who make them. Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism, we’ve been described as being “at the vanguard of the

Directed by Charles Pelletier, the short comedy film Driverless could make up for a good time if you just let yourself go of pretenses and enjoy a situational comedy. The acting is amateurish, the editing is out of pace, but all in all, the script is good enough to make you laugh a few times.

The man in question is Harry Turner, an Englishman in his early twenties who was deployed to Afghanistan when he was 18 years old and emerged from his tour of duty with burn marks on his arms and severe PTSD. Such extreme trauma requires an extreme solution, and so Harry travels literally to the other

Then again, not everything is as awful as Otto makes them out to be. And he could perhaps afford to have some manners himself, especially when a new, very pregnant neighbor drops by with a bowl of home-cooked meal as a courtesy. If you’ve already seen 2015’s Oscar-nominated Swedish hit “A Man Called Ove” by