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Why Romeo + Juliet is an enduring cultural classic

Harpers Bazaar 04 Nov 2021
Presenting the Best Supporting Actress category at this year’s Academy Awards, Brad Pitt was tasked with explaining how each nominee fell in love with movies ... In his two-star review, the film journalist Roger Ebert sniffed that “this production was a very bad idea” and it would “dismay any lover of Shakespeare” ... .
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‘Grim Fandango’’s imaginative afterlife anticipated a colourful future for the medium

NME 02 Nov 2021
I first met Manuel Calavera in a small Cornish newsagent ... READ MORE ... Credit ... demon) ... ‘Video games are not art’ decreed esteemed film critic Roger Ebert back in the early 2000s. Though it’s a view he’d later recant, Ebert’s heavily publicised pronouncement wasn’t just a mark of the high brow’s disregard of gaming, but its outright animosity toward it ... .
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Chris Pratt to voice Garfield in new animated movie

Waco Tribune-Herald 02 Nov 2021
Famed film critic Roger Ebert called “Oliver!” a “treasure of a movie.” Romulus Films ... It’s beautifully shot and, as Roger Ebert noted, full of “terrific energy, beauty, and excitement.” Omni Zoetrope ... Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff.
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10 Movies About Death That Will Change Your Life

What Culture 01 Nov 2021
Roger Ebert once wrote. "It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it." Many people aren't inclined to think about the inevitability of death, let alone talk about it, but if there's anywhere we can go to find solace in the face of our mortality, it would have to be the movies ... 10. Rabbit Hole (2010) ... Next ....
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Last Night in Soho Free Streaming- Where to Watch Online

The Signal 01 Nov 2021
Last Night in Soho Free Streaming. Where to Watch Online?. Fans will be able to watch the film online at Warner Bros! Last Night in Soho will be available to stream starting this fall. Last Night in Soho streaming full movies online for free on 123movies includes options to watch it at home or on one of these platforms ... and Disney Plus ... No ... Roger Ebert ... .
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7 questions to ask when starting a podcast

Independent Tribune 01 Nov 2021
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (19682001) ... Fred Rogers, Betty Aberlin, David Newell, Joe Negri ... Roger Ebert, Gene Siskel, Richard Roeper, Michael Phillips. Offering what became their trademark “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” for newly released movies, critics Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel gave weekly rundowns of the latest films.
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The war on Halloween: Why the Christian right's moral panic over 1980s horror movies still matters

Raw Story 31 Oct 2021
Since Halloween is a holiday devoted to celebrating the scary, you might think that every type of fright would be welcome ... The selling of "Silent Night, Deadly Night". Accused of "blood money" ... That changed, however, when film critics Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel weighed in on their popular TV show ... But Siskel and Ebert weren't right-wing Christians ... .
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#80. The Witch (2015)

Dothan Eagle 30 Oct 2021
Writing on his website, critic Roger Ebert called ...
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#82. Drag Me to Hell (2009)

Dothan Eagle 30 Oct 2021
99 minutesIn his review of the film, Roger Ebert ...
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Ranking the 100 best horror movies of all time

SCNOW Morning News 30 Oct 2021
... likely to have in your lifetime” on RogerEbert.com ... What was first a Roger Corman B-movie and then an off-Broadway play became this iconic musical horror comedy ... According to Roger Ebert, “A case can be made that ‘Caligari’ was the first true horror film.” Decla-Bioscop AG.
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Honoring A Haunting History

Yankton Daily Press 29 Oct 2021
More than that, they changed us forever ... (Count Orlok once popped up in a “SpongeBob SquarePants” episode, so there’s that.) But, as film critic Roger Ebert once noted, “Nosferatu” lets you see how vampires were portrayed before Lugosi’s count became so indelible, and then so cliche and fodder for send-ups ... Makeup artist Jack B ... ....
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The age of monsters

Vox 29 Oct 2021
An infamous article by Roger Ebert immortalized the liminal moment. Attending an early screening of 1968’s Night of the Living Dead, he found his theater was full of “kids, the kind you expect at a Saturday afternoon kiddie matinee.” Ebert, and apparently the children’s parents, ...
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OCSO investigation refutes parents' allegations that Niceville teacher showed students pornography

NWF Daily News 29 Oct 2021
NICEVILLE — An Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office investigation largely refutes allegations that a Niceville teacher subjected students to pornography by allowing them to watch the movie "Alexander." ... "Here is an ambitious and sincere film that fails to find a focus for its elusive subject," the famous critic Roger Ebert wrote at the time ... .
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Shut Up, Dude: This Week’s Best And Worst Comments

Stereogum 29 Oct 2021
It was an appropriately spooky week around here with a Cannibal Corpse Counting Down, A Dario Argento-inspired Black Market, and a package of scorpions. Also Lulu turns 10 on Sunday, reminding us of our mortality ... Score.32 . Oct 25th ... 1. fact ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... 6 ... Posted in ... 1 ... 3 ... 4 ... This reminds me of a Roger Ebert review of the movie “Pearl Harbor” with Ben Affleck ... .
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An appreciation: Mort Sahl is the father of modern comedy

Finger Lakes Times 27 Oct 2021
His main stage here from 1956 to the early 1970s was at Mister Kelly’s, the famous Rush Street nightclub; he is featured in the new film “Live at Mister Kelly’s.” Reviewing one of his shows there in 1971, the late movie critic Roger Ebert wrote that he was “the finest, quickest, most intelligent comic mind in America.
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