Indie Outlook Picks the 2025 Nominees
My annual picks for what I’d like to see nominated this year is led, unsurprisingly, by the picture that has swept most of the nationwide critics’ accolades thus far. Paul […]
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Top 20 Films of 2025
Let’s face it, 2025 was a cataclysmically awful year—certainly the worst in our nation’s history that I’ve been alive to witness. Since free expression is a clear threat to authoritarianism, […]
Writing for Cinema Femme: Vol. 1
I often wonder whether my wife and I ever would have met had she not founded the site, Cinema Femme. It connected directly with a passion I had developed simply […]
Remembering David Lynch
The first David Lynch film I saw was “The Straight Story,” which is one of the most achingly beautiful films ever made. I was quite young when I first saw […]
Indie Outlook Picks the 2024 Nominees
With the Chicago Film Critics Association announcing the winners of their annual awards this evening, I figured that I might as well publish my annual list of the great work […]
Top 20 Films of 2024
If you had told me at the beginning of 2024 that I would be ending the year no longer working for RogerEbert.com, having left on good terms to work full-time […]
Writing for RogerEbert.com: Vol. 10
February 28th, 2024, marked my tenth anniversary of working at RogerEbert.com, which seemed like a fitting full circle moment to bid this extraordinary chapter of my life farewell. Other projects […]
Mystery is Better Than Truth: Lucian Georgescu and Barry Gifford on “The Phantom Father”
The following article was originally published on White City Cinema on April 5th, 2022. Sometimes the story behind the birth of a film is no less worthy of being made […]
Indie Outlook Picks the 2023 Nominees
No matter how long Indie Outlook remains on hiatus due to other projects, this site will continue to be the place where you will annually find, in addition to my […]
Top 20 Films of 2023
Last month, my wife and I attended a traveling exhibition in Chicago that celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Walt Disney Company, and the aftertaste that it left me with […]
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