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 […]
Category Archives: Indie Spotlight
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 […]
Deconstructing Woody Allen
“I just met a wonderful new man. He’s fictional but you can’t have everything.”—Cecilia (Mia Farrow) in “The Purple Rose of Cairo” (1985) There’s a scene toward the end of […]
Top 11 Nostalgia Critic Reviews
Laughter is one of the great gifts human beings can give to one another. There’s something cathartically rejuvenating about being doubled over with guttural chortles while witnessing a peerless satirist […]
Remembering Philip Seymour Hoffman
I remember hearing a story once about the vast amount of time it took Philip Seymour Hoffman to walk to a craft service table. He was on the set of […]
