Posted on August 27, 2020 at 4:08 pm
I’m delighted with the elegant and more user-friendly re-design at rogerebert.com, where I serve as assistant editor and critic. Editor in chief Chaz Ebert has generously used the re-launch to pay tribute to our writers, including a link to my appreciation essay about Carl Reiner. It is one of the great honors of my professional …
Posted on August 23, 2020 at 8:00 am
On Twitter I asked people to tell me their favorite movie character with their name. I got a lot of great answers and some surprising “none” answers, which led me to this study. Type in a name and see how many movies have a character by that name. The implications for gender and race and …
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Posted on August 22, 2020 at 2:05 pm
MGM is putting some of its money where its mouth is and rebooting its subsidiary Orion Pictures to focus on films from diverse voices, headed by Alana Mayo, who will have the most coveted power in Hollywood; the power to greenlight a project. Power in Hollywood still belongs almost exclusively to white men. “There are …
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Posted on August 22, 2020 at 8:00 am
Bill and Ted meet Rufus’ daughter and we get to meet their daughters in this clip from “Bill and Ted Face the Music,” available this week on streaming services. And — you know you want this — you can get Bill and Ted Zoom backgrounds for your next office meeting or book club!
Posted on August 20, 2020 at 10:12 pm
B-| Lowest Recommended Age: | Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| MPAA Rating: | PG |
| Profanity: | None |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Brief potty humor |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | None |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Offscreen--critically ill mother, parent of a character killed by poachers, sad death of a beloved character |
| Diversity Issues: | A metaphoric theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: | August 21, 2020 |
There was a real Ivan, and he was a silverback gorilla who was adopted by a family and then, at age 3 when he was too big to live in a home, he became an attraction at a shopping mall, kept indoors in a cage for 27 years. Community protests in 1997 led to his …
