A Discussion of Early Silent Film, Film History and Matt's new Book, Return to the Kingdom of Shadows.
Film Historian, film professor and silent fil...
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 movi...
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...
