Roger Ebert

But he is discovered by explorers plundering an ancient treasure, and escapes just in the nick of time. The sequence ends as an adult claps a battered fedora down on Indiana's head, and then we flash forward to the era of World War II. The opening sequence of this third Indiana Jones movie is the only one that seems truly original - or perhaps I should say, it recycles images from 1940s pulps and serials that Spielberg has not borrowed before. The rest of the movie will not come as a surprise…

The film 12 Angry Men by Sidney Lumet, is a courtroom drama with, well: twelve angry men trapped inside a steaming hot room, keen to deliver a verdict about a minority teen convicted of murdering his father. According to IMDb, the film made it’s debut in April of 1957, this film tested the boundaries between race relations and the effect of an all-white jury during the high peaks of the civil rights movement. The film revolves around a young man, most likely Puerto Rican although his ethnicity…

Few films have replicated the controversy of Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1971). Created during the ‘Golden age of American Film violence’ between the 1960s and early 1970s and based on the Anthony Burgess novella of the same name. The Orwellian, science-fiction film, catalogues the life and crimes of antagonist Alex Delarge; a young, violent and hedonistic deliquent with an enthusiastic appreciation for music, specifically German composer, Ludwig van Beethoven. Alex’s ‘droogs’, Dim,…

Drug Testing High School Athletes Students involved in extracurricular activities and subject to in school drug testing reported less substance use than comparable students in high schools without drug testing, according to a new evaluation released by the Institute of Education Sciences. Although the use of illicit substances among high school students has declined over the past decade, it still remains an issue. One approach to fixing this problem is for students and their families to…

end they decided that the title did not matter because the film itself was the “level of first-class satiric burlesque.” Film critics and moviegoers enjoyed the lighthearted, fun and cheerful musical numbers of Singing in the Rain. Film critic, Roger Ebert, “Singin' in the Rain” is a transcendent…

acting, terrible plots, with terrible characters, that are made for consumption by gullible teenagers. In fact, these films, often referred to by the derogatory term, slasher flicks, are never taken quite seriously. There are only two reviews on Roger Ebert’s website for Friday the 13th. From a total of 12 films released in the franchise, featuring mass murdering shenanigans, he reviews two of them. He even states, at the end of his abysmal half star review of Friday the 13th Part 2 , “This…

THE TIME OF ROMANTICIZED CRIMINALS In his film Chicago, Rob Marshall pulls the audience back to the roaring ‘20’s when jazz is hot and vaudeville is all anyone. We follow the story of Roxie Hart as she goes from stardom hopeful, to a criminal, to an American Sweetheart. Marshall utilizes theatrical lighting, intriguing symbolism, masterful techniques and a beautiful, exciting musical score and choreography to enthrall his audience. It is a musical so there are very many theatrical elements to…

pathology undermining social order. Through John and Tom’s graphic anti-social image, Peirce redirects the problem to heterosexuality, which socially raises men as potential offenders to prevent subordinate femininity from crossing the gender line. Roger Ebert points out that the male characters are not “simple killers but … instruments of deep [inherited]…

The Outsiders is a 1983 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton. The film was released on March 25, 1983. Jo Ellen Misakian, a librarian at Lone Star Elementary School in Fresno, California, and her students were responsible for inspiring Coppola to make the film.[1][2] The movie received mostly positive reviews from critics, and performed well at the box office, grossing $33 million on a $10 million budget.…

center about to tell the agent why they are qualified as parents. Despite, their defeat in not being able to have a child of their own, Jim and Cindy are able to look past that, and Timothy Green becomes a valuable lesson in their life. Film critic Roger Ebert said, “The Odd Life of Timothy Green"... respects the integrity of its story by dealing with real emotions of loss and parting. It 's intelligently constructed... instead of being simpleminded like too many family films, it treats the…