MSNBC is reporting that Roger Ebert has died. While I grew up watching his movie reviews with Gene Siskel, over the past few years I grew to appreciate his powerful progressive voice. His twitter feed was noted for being an outlet for insightful progressive criticism. He was 70 years old.
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Here is Roger's last article, which he called A Leave of Presence.
Here's a classic Ebert review, decrying censorship and finding art in the movie, Halloween, while criticizing the glut of slasher films which followed for being anti-woman.