Cancer took the life of film critic Roger Ebert in 2013, 14 years after it claimed former TV co-host Gene Siskel.
Unlike Siskel, however, Ebert did not sneak off into the great beyond. Even after thyroid cancer...
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22 July 2014
Borgman reminds me of a movie I kind of liked. But it also reminds me of a movie I hated.
The flick I liked was the recent Under the Skin, starring Scarlett Johansson as an alien who uses sex to lure...
02 July 2014
They say a picture’s worth a thousand words, but Suzanne Gallagher is more humble about her work. She just hopes her pictures are worthy of the words that accompany them.
The artist, owner of an Olde Towne...
26 June 2014
The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz begins with a quote from Thoreau that asks how citizens should react to unjust laws. The philosopher of Walden Pond asks whether we should simply obey them or try...
23 June 2014
It’s surprising that the Gateway Film Center isn’t screening Citizen Koch as part of its Nightmares on High Street series. If your politics are anywhere to the left of, say, Antonin Scalia’s, the documentary is as...
16 June 2014
Some movies pack so many plots, subplots and characters into their running time that you just about need a chart...
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