Roger Ebert Reviews

The 2022 “Hellraiser,” the horror franchise reboot, often resembles an artful and over-produced tribute to “Hellraiser,” Clive Barker’s kinky and sometimes genuinely nightmarish 1987 shocker. The halting pace, scattered focus, and potent ghastliness of Barker’s movie reflects its nature as Barker’s feature directorial debut, a decent adaptation of his 1986 novella The Hellbound Heart. Watching […]

“Love doesn’t die, people do.” Ilonka quotes that Merrit Malloy passage in Netflix’s “The Midnight Club,” and it’s really at the beating heart of Mike Flanagan’s ten-episode adaptation of the work of Christopher Pike in that it’s not just about trying to understand the end of life but using poetry and prose to do so.

In their sickly committed, often ingeniously self-documented pursuit of online validation and its associated cultural capital, social media influencers brand themselves as protagonists worth following, an assertion of mass egocentricity that many have dubbed “main character” syndrome. Filmmakers have understandably embraced this newly minted internet archetype, particularly in realms of social satire and found-footage horror

Horror remakes are a tough proposition, especially if the story has already been re-told once. And even more so, when said new remake idea is a series expansion. But showrunner Andrew Hinderaker’s soulful and compelling “Let the Right One In” beats the odds, and is the kind of ambitious project that does well with its precious

I’ve long been a fan of Stephen King’s novellas, and some of them have been turned into great films in the past, including “Stand by Me,” “The Shawshank Redemption,” and “The Mist.” The master of horror’s 2020 collection If It Bleeds opened with a wonderful little ghost story called “Mr. Harrigan’s Phone,” which is now

Deadline‘s Matthew Carey recently published an article about RogerEbert.com publisher Chaz Ebert, who received the FACETS Legend Award at last month’s Screen Gems Benefit (you can read the full article here). Carey spoke with Ebert about how her “early efforts at promoting diversity within the film world came in sponsoring Ebert Fellows to participate in important festivals like

At FACETS’ 2022 Screen Gems Benefit where RogerEbert.com publisher Chaz Ebert was awarded the Legend Prize, Karen Carderelli, the venue’s Executive Director, announced that the 47-year-old cinema organization will be administering the newly launched Chicago Alliance of Film Festivals (“CAFF”). FACETS’ release described CAFF as comprised of Chicagoland-based film festivals, venues, film schools, and industry creatives whose mission is to

I can vividly remember sitting in a premiere at the 2018 Oxford Film Festival of a new true crime documentary called “Forever ‘B’.” The energy in that room was insane as the story unfolding on the screen kept topping itself with new revelations. Kidnapping is always a terrifying thing to consider but there was more

Somewhere out there in the farthest reaches of space, perhaps even on another planet at this point, is a lost glove. It slipped away from an astronaut during a routine journey to the moon and back and now (presumably) roams the galaxies. There’s footage of this glove that lasts just a couple seconds, which inspired