Now that “Gene and Roger,” the new podcast by Brian Raftery for The Ringer (Spotify), has aired its eighth and final episode, I want to acquaint you with the entire series. It is a superb tribute to the legacy of my last husband, Roger Ebert, and his longtime colleague and friend, Gene Siskel, who created a television show…

It was just my luck that I saw almost nothing that won awards at KVIFF. You make compromises all over the place at every festival. An interview opportunity comes up, so you miss two films. A friend you haven’t seen in ages is there suddenly and wants to see something you hadn’t planned on seeing.…

This Unloved was made about eight seconds before I learned that David Prior’s next project fell outside of my ideological comfort zone. But I hope this stands as a testament to the strength of his ideological commitment and originality, and to the fact that unfortunately a lot of the time critics disagree with an artist…

Watching Ryan Murphy’s latest chapter in his “American Crime Story” anthology series, I was struck by his use of that first word. It’s become trendy to tack the word “American” onto dramatic titles to signify importance—this has something to say about our country—and the over-use of it has kind of backfired in a way that…

In celebration of the fortieth anniversary of Robert Redford‘s Sundance Institute,  they have asked us to share some of our own memories about the Institute and the Festival. We are presenting a special edition of Thumbnails detailing its evolution as reported by my late husband, Roger Ebert. I also share one particular one of my…

Although the notion of a werewolf had been utilized for its cinematic potential as far back as the now-feared-lost silent film “The Werewolf” (1913) and reached the pinnacle of its popularity in the 1940s thanks to the success of the horror classic “The Wolf Man” (1941), it eventually waned in popularity as filmmakers and audiences…