Roger Ebert
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A Christmas Story never took off here, but its time will come
- Culture
- December 19, 2020, 05:00
Allow me to tell you a Christmas story about the differences between us and them. For the last century or so, worried old people have complained that(...)

50 scary films to watch at Halloween
- Film
- October 18, 2020, 06:00
No Halloween parties. No trick-or-treating. What else is there to do but scare ourselves silly watching some terrifying films? Below you’ll find 50(...)

Brad Pitt on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: ‘There’s no set like a Tarantino set’
- Film
- July 27, 2019
We are in the most famous of Cannes’s regally enormous beachfront hotels. A day has passed since the premiere of Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time (...)

Touching up: are we wrong to colourise old photographs?
- Visual Art
- August 25, 2018, 05:00
Swipe your phone, gaze at a 42in plasma screen, or just look at packaging for children’s toys, or the interior of a McDonald’s. We live and breat(...)
‘People of all kinds of cultures, colours, ages, weights. That’s what we wanted to show’
- Film
- March 22, 2018
Diversity swings and roundabouts. Earlier this month, the Academy Awards ceremony was careful to rally around the #TimesUp and #MeToo movements. By th(...)

“This Oscar,” declared Eddie Redmayne, delirious , “belongs to all of those people around the world battling ALS. It belongs to one exceptional family(...)

Mercurial film maker and comedian
- People
- August 26, 2017, 04:10
Jerry Lewis, the comedian and filmmaker who was adored by many, disdained by others, but unquestionably a defining figure of American entertainment in(...)

‘The Crying Game’: ‘They wanted me to cast a woman that was pretending to be a man’
- Film
- August 1, 2017
It seems impossible now, but Neil Jordan’s low-budget thriller The Crying Game was a box-office flop when it was initially released in the UK and Irel(...)

Only two film critics in the English-speaking world have gained the starriest class of celebrity. One was the late Roger Ebert. The other was Barry (...)

Terry George, the Irish film-maker behind Some Mother’s Son and Hotel Rwanda, is surely accustomed to rubbing shoulders with the glitterati, having at(...)