Anyone who has written a film review in the last 30 or so years owes a lot to Roger Ebert, who died today at age 70, just one day after announcing his cancer had returned.  Ebert was the first person to win a Pulitzer for film reviews and popularized film criticism in a way no one else can lay claim to.  Whether in his 46 years reviewing for the Chicago Sun-Times, any of his various TV shows, his blog or even his Twitter account, Ebert brought both humor and a sense of importance to film review that few others could ever match.

I’m somewhat ashamed to say that I was never a huge Ebert fan growing up. Continue reading →