Roger Ebert

Steak 'n Shake is pretty hard to forget. [Flickr: Jose Kevo] What if you could never eat again, but could remember, bite by bite, slurp by slurp, meals of the past? Roger Ebert writes a beautiful piece in the Chicago Sun-Times about his inability to eat and drink after multiple surgeries. He stopped feeling hungry or thirsty, but instead of focusing on his loss, started remembering vivid eating memories: Yet I could if I wanted to right now...  

Ten years in the future, a global epidemic has infected most of the population with vampirism. The few remaining humans are on the run, hunted down by the militant Vampire Army, which doesn't hate them but mostly is just hungry.  

from Grub Street Chicago Ebert, in 2005 Sun-Times movie critic and eloquent bon vivant Roger Ebert is unable to eat or drink, the result of a series of failed surgeries to treat his thyroid cancer. In a thoughtful take on his situation, he recalls that it's not the tastes that he misses — he hardly remembers the food at "the best meal I have ever been served," at Les Pres d'Eugenie in Eugénie-les-Bains. Instead, it's the social...  

Netflix Roku plyer image via Slashgear At the beginning of each year cinephiles always like to try and predict what the new year will bring. And not just Oscar-related stuff either. Partially due to the mega-success of Avatar, people seem even more technology-obsessed than usual. Just a few days ago we learned that 3-D television from the likes of ESPN is less than a year away. Over at Slate's Movie Club Roger Ebert has posted some...  

Glory days: Siskel and Ebert's At the Movies popularized intelligent critiques of major motion pictures. In a highly candid and revealing article, film critic Roger Ebert discusses how his health problems led to the deterioration of At the Movies - the legendary show he started in the 1970s with the late Gene Siskel. Ebert takes some blatant swipes at the boardroom hacks who changed the format of the show, destroyed the iconic set and left it...  

A man I admire greatly, Roger Ebert, salutes a man I admired greatly, Steve Goodman, in a video-rich blog entry, New Year's with Steve: In tribute to a great heart. Here's John Prine singing Goodman's heartbreaking, "My Old Man"--  

The original series Avatar: The Last Airbender was highly regarded and popular for three seasons on Nickelodeon. Its fans take it for granted that its heroes are Asian. Why would Paramount and Shyamalan go out of their way to offend ...  

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Roger Ebert posted an entry on his blog about his 10 favorite animated films of the year. Ten is quite a big selection for this genre, which is why it's quite hard to leave some out. Still, he managed to do just that. ...  

James's Cameron's "Avatar," which has humanized the use technology like no film before it, "inaugurates the next generation and raises the bar," Roger Ebert told HuffPostTech. The groundbreaking sci-fi epic, Ebert added, ranks as "a milestone in the same sense as 'Star Wars.'" Movies will be divided into two epochs from here on out: B.A. and A.A. Before "Avatar," After "Avatar." And Cameron's achievement caps a historic decade of technological...  

Roger Ebert, Best Films of 2009Duluth News Tribune (registration)They probably got along as well as Herzog and Klaus Kinski. This year's late-opening sleeper, built on a probable Oscar-winning performance by Jeff Bridges. ...  

Roger Ebert posted his review of AVATAR today.He gave it 4 stars.Comparing it to STAR WARS, he writes "Avatar" is not simply a sensational entertainment, although it is that. It's a technical breakthrough.  

When illness prevented Roger Ebert from doing the movie review show he had done since 1982, everyone knew that change was inevitable. But no one could have predicted this much change, not even Ebert. The Chicago Sun-Times movie critic and original host of At The Movies with his longtime partner Gene Siskel talked about how producers completely remade the show. The changes ranged from the show's hosts down to the famous balcony set that the...  

The irrepressible and still-going Roger Ebert has a review of The Road today, the adaptation of the Mccarthy novel starring Viggo Mortensen. I haven't read the novel but I have a general idea of the plot and themes of the movie. Still, even just reading this review is enough for me to think that this movie is painted only in the darker shades of grey and black. Ebert is a fan of McCarthy, has read the book, and so I trust his judgement on how...  

It is this reporter's opinion that if you say "Roger Ebert can kiss my ass," you are a bad person. It's just my philosophy. JAY MARIOTTI Began life as a blogger. Told Roger Ebert to kiss his ass. Projected. Pretended he wasn't a blogger. Wooed the ladies. Auto-summarized. Tossed from bar. Napped. Lurked.