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Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Hey everyone. in Chicago here.In so many ways on so many levels I feel like every review I've written, and certainly every interview I've conducted, has led up to this. To say that Roger Ebert and his late partner Gene Siskel were inspirations to both me and virtually every critic (certainly online) working today is to require a redefinition of the word "inspiration." I literally cannot...
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The Bleeding Tree (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
I can't recommend Roger & Chaz by Hank Sartin enough. It's beautiful to read. I also really appreciated Thank you for smoking that Roger Ebert recently added to his blog. In fact, I appreciate most things he posts there. I wrote an appreciation after Gene Siskel died that I wish I still had in some form. In it, I noted the importance of Sneak Previews had been in my development....
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The Political Carnival (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
By GottaLaff Roger Ebert picks up where I left off . This is his take on the first debate, but it could easily apply to the second: I do not like you, John McCain. My feeling has nothing to do with issues. It has to do with common courtesy. During the debate, you refused to look Barack Obama in the eye. [...] Obama is my guy. If you are rude to him, you are rude to me. If you came to...
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Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
The Wachowski brothers and James McTeigue recently got together to chew the fat over a screening of Paramount's restored "Godfather" print recently, and our old pal Roger Ebert just happened to be there to jot down a few notes for posterity.
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The Final Score (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hint: The portrait was inspired by a still photo from "All About Eve." Click here for the answer, not mention some great insight and a nice rant, in Roger Ebert's Journal. I guess we'll have to change our slogan to...
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Chaos Theory (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
... and evocatively as I can." What to do, indeed. Coincidentally, right after reading this, I found Roger Ebert discussing approximately the same thing: “Look, I hate smoking. It took my parents from me, my father with lung cancer, my mother with emphysema. They both liked Luckies. When my dad’s cancer was diagnosed, they played it safe and switched to Winstons. When my mother was breathing...
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Fark.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
... and teenagers who have been lured into the clutches of tobacco by stamp collectingGranted, Roger Ebert is an award-winning writer, but that's just Fark awesome right there.Golf clap, animated gif of applauding audience, etc. 2008-10-12 09:02:23 AM Coronach: and they still won't take my submissions for the blacklung stampThey're putting that kind of stuff on fag packets here.Long gone...
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Ferdy on Films, etc. (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
... But very few of his works ever followed it to these shores. It wasn’t until the very first Roger Ebert’s Overlooked Film Festival in 1999 that I got a chance to see another film by Troell, a fascinating look at the strange marriage of Nobel laureate Knut Hamsun and his wife Marie in Hamsun . Ghita Nørby played the frustrated Marie in that film, and she plays Miss Fagerdal, a rich...
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MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
... who helps her friend arrange an illegal abortion in Ceausescu's Romania isn't for everyone, but Roger Ebert awarded it a perfect four stars. It's no "Juno." (Out on DVD Oct. 14)MoviesNo matter where you stand politically, how can you not be a little intrigued by “W.,” Oliver Stone’s “riches to more riches” look at our current president? The trailer presents the film as a dark comedy...
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Mark Bernstein (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Roger Ebert skewers the new US postage stamp of Bette Davis , in which the artist has used a famous pose but removed the iconic cigarette. The great Chicago photographer Victor Skrebneski took one of the most famous portraits of Davis. I showed him the stamp. His response: "I have been with Bette for years and I have never seen her without a cigarette! No cigarette! Who is this impostor?" I...
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Biomes Blog (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Geek Stuff : It appears that Obama’s got the geek vote . I would have never thought to look to Roger Ebert for one of the best takes on the Biden/Palin debate, but there you go. Overcompensating idiots on steroids . The world’s smallest functional teapot . Stuff You Should Know : How to wake up early . Here are the electoral maps for every election going back to 1789. George Washington...
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Neatorama (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
... with audiences, critics didn’t much care for the film. When it premiered on October 1, 1968, Roger Ebert was upset that theater owners let kids in (there was no film rating system at the time). The New York Times said it was a “junk movie” and “really silly,” and other critics thought it was simply too gory. A few really loved it, though – Rex Reed said it was the epitome of a B movie...
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Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Spy thrillers are rarely plausible -- and suspending belief may be part of the fun of watching them. That's the observation of most critics in their reviews of Body of Lies, starring Leonard DiCaprio and Russell Crowe. For example, Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times concludes " Body of Lies contains enough you can believe, or almost believe, that you wish so much of it weren't sensationally...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
... trying to fight back against impending layoffs and a numbing office environment.As film critic Roger Ebert wrote, the movie is about work that crushes the spirit: "Office cubicles are cells, supervisors are the wardens, and modern management theory is skewed to employ as many managers and as few workers as possible."That "The Office" started out as a British TV show suggests that...
