An Inside Look
Though the Oscars are still several months away, the 2018 film awards season has been in full swing for a while now. This early phase is al...
An Inside Look
Though the Oscars are still several months away, the 2017 film awards season has been in full swing for a while now. This early phase is all ab...
A Late Summer Ode To Physical Media
A cultural question for the moment, and one upon which my livelihood, leisure, and philosophical raison d'être currently st...
Film Reviews and Essays, Both Approachable and Intelligent
WRITTEN BY TYLER SMITH/2017
What do we talk about when we talk about film? For critics, the answe...
Tyler Smith, co-host of the long-running popular podcast Battleship Pretension, and the host of the Christian-centric podcast More Than One Lesson, has joined u...
An Inside Look
Since the 2011 movie year, I've been honored to be a part of my local critics organization, The St. Louis Film Critics Association. A major part...
Fade Out, Mr. Ebert
DIRECTED BY STEVE JAMES/2014
Life Itself is the new documentary about film critic Roger Ebert. It is not about film criticism, or even m...
A Life in the Dark, Fully Lived
by morteneng21, 2013
Roger Ebert, the most famous and influential film critic of all time, has died. Just yesterday he pub...