Questions for an ex film critic
Several weeks ago I received an email from the features editor at the Kane County Chronicle, which is one of the newspapers that ran my movie reviews, telling m...
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Movie review — ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’
Kingsman: The Secret Service is a confounding experience. Much of it is an enjoyable throwback to breezy action movies of yore, while some of it is as loathso...
Film critic Jeffrey Westhoff remembers Roger Ebert
Film critic Jeffrey Westhoff remembers Roger Ebert I have found that the remembrance I wrote for the Northwest Herald when Roger Ebert died is still online.
Film review, ‘Life Itself’
I knew Roger Ebert. I didn’t know him intimately. I never visited his home and only once did I join one of of his post-Ebertfest-screening revels at the Champai...
Roses for Roger
I could not think of a more fitting place to see Life Itself, the Roger Ebert documentary opening July 4, than at Chicago’s Lake Street Screening Room. This is ...