On April 3rd, 2025, I spent the entire day at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, one of the four parks that make up Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. I spent the […]| Indie Outlook
February 28th, 2024, marked my tenth anniversary of working at RogerEbert.com, which seemed like a fitting full circle moment to bid this extraordinary chapter of my life farewell. Other projects […]| Indie Outlook
The following article was originally published on White City Cinema on April 5th, 2022. Sometimes the story behind the birth of a film is no less worthy of being made […]| Indie Outlook
No matter how long Indie Outlook remains on hiatus due to other projects, this site will continue to be the place where you will annually find, in addition to my […]| Indie Outlook
Last month, my wife and I attended a traveling exhibition in Chicago that celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Walt Disney Company, and the aftertaste that it left me with […]| Indie Outlook
Frank Oz, me and Derek DelGaudio at the screening of “Derek DelGaudio’s In & Of Itself” at Ebertfest 2023. Photo by Timothy Hiatt. 2023 marks my ninth year of writing for Roge…| Indie Outlook
“JessZilla” director Emily Sheskin and Jesselyn Silva. Courtesy of Chicken Wing Pictures. I often wonder whether my wife and I ever would have met had she not founded the site, Cinema Femme. It con…| Indie Outlook
The first David Lynch film I saw was “The Straight Story,” which is one of the most achingly beautiful films ever made. I was quite young when I first saw it and thought, ‘I wonder what else this g…| Indie Outlook
With the Chicago Film Critics Association announcing the winners of their annual awards this evening, I figured that I might as well publish my annual list of the great work I would love to see nom…| Indie Outlook
If you had told me at the beginning of 2024 that I would be ending the year no longer working for RogerEbert.com, having left on good terms to work full-time on long-in-the-works projects, I wouldn…| Indie Outlook