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Halloween Ends (2022)
Halloween Kills (2021)
The Forever Purge (2021)
Sweet Thing (2021)
Minari (2021)
Hammer (2020)
Blood on Her Name (2020)
Halloween (2018)
An Actor Prepares (2018)
Megan Leavey (2017)
The November Man (2014)
Meek's Cutoff (2011)
Wendy and Lucy (2009)
A Mighty Heart (2007)
The Punisher (2004)
Jesus' Son (2000)
Entrapment (1999)
The Postman (1997)
Fled (1996)
No Way Out (1987)

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Features

The Fall and Rise of "Falling Skies"

In its third season, producer Steven Spielberg's "Falling Skies" brought in a new team of writers to rethink the allegorical underpinnings of the show. It worked.

Ebert Club

#146 December 12, 2012

Marie writes:  For those unaware, it seems our intrepid leader, the Grand Poobah, has been struck by some dirty rotten luck..."This will be boring. I'll make it short. I have a slight and nearly invisible hairline fracture involving my left femur. I didn't fall. I didn't break it. It just sort of...happened to itself." - Roger

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#69 June 29, 2011

Marie writes: Allow me to introduce you to Bill and Cheryl. I went to Art school with Bill and met his significant other Cheryl while attending the graduation party; we've been pals ever since. None of which is even remotely interesting until you see where they live and their remarkable and eclectic collection of finds. (click to enlarge images.)

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#45 January 12, 2011

Marie writes: I love cinematography and worship at its altar; a great shot akin to a picture worth a thousand words. The best filmmakers know how to marry words and images. And as the industry gears up for the Golden Globes and then the Oscars, and the publicity machine starts to roll in earnest, covering the Earth with a daily blanket of freshly pressed hype, I find myself reaching past it and backwards to those who set the bar, and showed us what can be accomplished and achieved with light and a camera...

Cinematography by Robert Krasker - The Third Man (1949) (click to enlarge images)