Silence of the Lambs is one of my favorite movies. Maybe my favorite.

I loved the relationship between Clarice and Lector. I loved their conversations. He was a killer, but Clarice considered him smart. Which he was. She considered him a mentor. In the end, he helped her solve the case.

Got it. I didn't want to go back and start watching more reviews again.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

I never liked Siskel nor most of his reviews. He had a very narrow tolerance for movies he liked, and brought a vast, hollow word salad for movies he didn't.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

i was hoping that 'an american werewolf in london' would win the 1982 best picture from the academy. they made a star out of the dr. pepper guy.

Agreed. While he seemed to like talking about movies, he didn't have anything interesting to say about them. Dave Kehr, who succeeded Siskel as the Tribune's principal film critic, was far superior in that role.

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That reminds me of one of my favorite Ebert blurbs about the movie The Village:

“To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It’s a crummy secret, about one step up the ladder of narrative originality from It Was All a Dream. It’s so witless, in fact, that when we do discover the secret, we want to rewind the film so we don’t know the secret anymore. And then keep on rewinding, and rewinding, until we’re back at the beginning, and can get up from our seats and walk backward out of the theater and go down the up escalator and watch the money spring from the cash register into our pockets.”

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I was a HUGE fan of Marvel comics when I was a kid and I had a big collection that I eventually sold to Larry at the comic shop over near Loyola. The thing that made Marvel so much different than D.C. was the way the characters were developed. (This was before the rebooting of Batman as "The Dark Knight." Frank Miller was doing Daredevil for Marvel at the time and I hated his ugly ass pencil work.) The writing was a lot more sophisticated. The characters were real people with real problems. They just happened to have super powers.

Whenever I've attempted to watch a Marvel movie, and admittedly I haven't seen a lot of them, I've been sorely disappointed. It's as if the franchise is geared to be watched in China so the dialogue must be minimal and the action constant. That's the exact opposite of what I have always considered the Marvel ethic.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

It depends which ones you are watching. The actual Avengers movies are full of what you describe. The character development happens in the other movies dedicated to individuals. They are much more storyline/dialogue based.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

One of Ebert's best riffs, on "Year of the Horse": And as for the musical segments, they reminded me of nothing more than a group of shaggy mountain men hunkering in a circle and doing imitations of autistic lumberjacks.

That's why I was interested in Wandavision. If it's a story about the two of them living a suburban life on Long Island and occasionally being interrupted by calls to show up at Tony Stark's Avengers clubhouse in Manhattan to discuss saving mankind and then going out and doing it while struggling to fit in parent-teacher conferences for the twins, that seems cool.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

The Captain America movies are very character driven and not just him.

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"