The Weinstein Company has asked the toy manufacturer NECA to cease distribution on a series of collectible dolls based on the characters from Quentin Tarantino’s latest film, “Django Unchained.”

Delivering on its promise as “the greatest manhunt in history,” director Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty avoids being the type of sloppy action flick made by blockbuster sentimentalists like Spielberg, Cameron or Bay.

Remember the Pixar films of yore? Those sweet, innocent, simple productions free of convoluted plots and overly elaborate settings? Those feel-good movies you could watch again and again and again? Those movies made first and foremost for kids and their imagination?

In a documentary arguing that President Barack Obama’s policies are the result of strong anti-colonialist sentiments, former Dartmouth Review Editor-in-Chief and conservative political commentator Dinesh D’Souza has transitioned into the film world with his release of the controversial “2016: Obama’s America,” which has become the highest grossing conservative documentary of all time.

For 13 years, Roger Ebert’s film festival, affectionately known as “Ebertfest” to regular attendees, has brought the film critic’s favorite overlooked films to his childhood home of Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.