Movies
Roger Ebert’s Ebertfest gets $20,000 academy grant
Dec. 20, 2012
Roger Ebert succumbed to cancer in 2013, but the film festival that bears his name celebrates its 20th anniversary this week at the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Ill.
April 18, 2018
Bed rest: Film critic Roger Ebert says he’ll have to skip this week’s Ebertfest film festival in Urbana-Champaign, Ill., after breaking a hip. -- Rock archives: The surviving members of the Grateful Dead are turning over the rock band’s archives to UC Santa Cruz.
April 25, 2008
Rebel Wilson will host 2013 MTV Movie Awards
Dec. 21, 2012
Roger Ebert to temporarily slow output as he fights cancer
April 3, 2013
Roger Ebert’s last thumbs up: Terrence Malick’s ‘To the Wonder’
April 9, 2013
Obituaries
Roger Ebert dies at 70; Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic
April 4, 2013
Roger Ebert’s passing Thursday at age 70 leaves behind a staggering body of work: He reviewed as many as 285 movies a year, spent decades as a fixture on TV and published 17 books.
Roger Ebert gave independent films popular appeal, and his ‘thumbs-up, thumbs-down’ ratings on TV were both coveted and scorned. The prolific critic continued to write reviews while battling cancer in recent years.
Roger Ebert career highlights, on page and screen