Roger Ebert

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The Steady, Inevitable Decline: Sideways at 20

There are many to choose from, but the indelible moment in the both quaffable and transcendent “Sideways“—Alexander Payne’s now 20-year-old bummer masterpiece adaptation of Rex Pickett’s novel about wine, middle age, and a distinctly American flavor of masculine failure and disappointment—has to be a pair of dueling monologues. We’re in Santa Ynez Valley, country lodged […]

Bright Wall/Dark Room October 2024: All Hail the Screwball Queen by Olympia Kiriakou

We are pleased to offer an excerpt from the October 2024 issue of the online magazine Bright Wall/Dark Room. Their theme for October is Screwballs, and they’re devoting the entire month to screwball comedies, past and present. In addition to Olympia’s piece on Lombard, the issue also features new essays on “The Thin Man,” “The Palm Beach Story,” “The Awful […]