We Say Goodbye to Those We Lost in 2018
Posted on December 31, 2018 at 8:00 am
A beautiful tribute from CBS Sunday Morning to those who left us in 2018, gently showing us what links them to each other and to each of us.
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The Filmmakers We Lost in 2018
Posted on December 30, 2018 at 8:00 am
TCM’s beautiful tribute to the actors, producers, screenwriters, directors, and other filmmakers who died in 2018.
My Top Ten of 2018
Posted on December 27, 2018 at 12:14 pm
My top ten films of 2018 (as usual, I have a #1 and then everything else is tied for #2), has been published on rogerebert.com. At the top of my list is “If Beale Street Could Talk,” and the rest of the list includes “Black Panther,” “Eighth Grade,” “Sorry to Bother You,” and “Support the …
If Beale Street Could Talk
Posted on December 27, 2018 at 12:08 pm
A| Lowest Recommended Age: | Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for language and some sexual content |
| Profanity: | Strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Sexual references and explicit sexual situations with nudity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Acohol |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Some peril and violence, references to rape |
| Diversity Issues: | A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: | December 25, 2018 |
| Date Released to DVD: | March 26, 2019 |
When I interviewed writer/director Barry Jenkins about “Moonlight,” we talked about the movie’s haunting score, composed by Nicholas Britell. “Many directors would use songs of the era to place the audience in the film’s three time periods,” I said. “Two things,” he replied. “First, we could not afford the rights to those songs. But more …
Dylan Thomas Reads A Child’s Christmas in Wales
Posted on December 25, 2018 at 12:00 pm