Snapshots from Cannes 2007
For the past seven years, I have felt a twinge of nostalgia every time the Cannes Film Festival returns to the Riviera. My mind always races back to those two […]
Category Archives: Indie Spotlight
Top 100 Favorite Films
I was recently asked by a friend to rank my Top Five Favorite Films. It was so daunting to limit my list to only five titles that I decided to […]
Why “The Happening” Is As Bad As “The Room”
An unchecked ego has a funny way of destroying everything in its path. That’s certainly the message one takes away from “The Disaster Artist,” Greg Sestero’s tremendously entertaining memoir of […]
Star Wars: The First Six Episodes
With May the 4th (Be With You) Day nearly upon us, and photos of the newly announced cast for “Star Wars Episode VII” making the rounds online, Indie Outlook is […]
Memories of Ebertfest 2014
Amazing how you can know someone for a few days and feel as though you’ve made a friend for life. That’s an experience not uncommon to the attendees at Ebertfest, […]
Top Ten Most Underrated Hitchcock Movies
Thirty-four years after his death, Alfred Hitchcock is more popular than ever. One of his films (“Vertigo”) was hailed by critics worldwide as the greatest film ever made, dethroning “Citizen […]
Indie Spotlight: 30th Chicago Latino Film Festival
Though I’ve lived in the Windy City for a number of years, this year marked my first visit to the Chicago Latino Film Festival. It most certainly won’t be my […]
The Freedom Trilogy
Aristotle was right. The whole is indeed greater than the sum of its parts. Sometimes films that are otherwise unrelated form a richer picture than they could merely on their […]
Working for Ebert
It is the opportunity of a lifetime, and I am honored to accept it. Today, I’m officially announcing my new position as Assistant Editor at Ebert Publishing. I’ll be working […]
Remembering Harold Ramis
The movie was “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.” The theater was Century 12 Evanston. The man sitting behind me was Harold Ramis, though I was initially unaware of […]
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