It’s no secret that Roger Ebert lived and breathed movies. The very principle seeped from his pores, infiltrating everything he ever was, right down to his personalised license plates, one of which was ‘rosebud’ and the other simply, ‘movies’. Ever since his stint at the Chicago Sun-Times, Ebert understood the core principles not only of movie journalism but of Hollywood as a whole, witnessing countless cultural transitions and the way the film …