Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
In this week’s video review, Peter Travers explains the ups and downs of the Leonardo DiCaprio/Russell Crowe war thriller Body of Lies, Guy Ritchie’s RockNRolla and the Bill Maher documentary Religulous. But first, a few more words on Beverly Hills Chihuahua. Click below for the full take from the Rolling Stone film critic. • Pete [...]
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
It's as if Roger Ebert realized that even his three-star review of the movie Flash of Genius would not encourage more people to go see it. After all, it's about the inventor ...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People , based on the real life of British critic Toby Young, is getting mixed reviews from the real-life ones. The film, says Roger Ebert ...
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Sunshine Cleaning earned praise earlier this year at Sundance, including on this site from Owen Gleiberman and Whitney Pastorek, but Fox Searchlight turned down the chance to buy it, perhaps because it was just too similar to the distributor's Little...
Parabasis (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
First off (Thanks Prince!) Roger Ebert critiques the VP debates from a theatrical perspective. interesting stuff, particularly his commentary on Biden's choke-up moment.Second, Gordon Gatrelle over at We Are Respectable Negroes takes a look at what he dubs Sarah Palin's...
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
The Wachowski brothers and James McTeigue recently got together to chew the fat over a screening of Paramount's restored "Godfather" print recently, and our old pal Roger Ebert just happened to be there to jot down a few notes for posterity.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
No 32: French MacMurray 1908-91
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
Somehow I missed this on Thursday, but apparently so did everyone else, since I didn't see it linked anywhere. Roger Ebert was hanging out at a post-production studio in Chicago, watching the restored new print of The Godfather , when he was unexpectedly joined by Larry and Andy Wachowski, the famously inaccessible duo behind The Matrix , Speed Racer , and (people forget) Bound . Afterward, he got...
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
Die hard fanatics of The Matrix know that filmmakers Larry and Andy Wachowski haven't ever spoken to the press since 1999, when Matrix first premiered. Its been nine years and they still haven't broken their anti-press stance, remaining absent during Speed Racer promotions. However, our favorite critic-turned-blogger Roger Ebert randomly ran into the brothers after a screening of a newly restored print...
Kevin Smokler (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
Bully (2001): "a frightening indictment of a society that offers absolutely nothing to some of its children--and an indictment of the children, who lack the imagination and courage to try to escape" --Roger Ebert (in his four-star review). Note: Based...
Entertainment Weekly (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Owen Gleiberman on Bill Maher's comic documentary. Plus: ''Nick & Norah,'' ''Chihuahua,'' ''Fireproof,'' more
KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
•Critic Rex Reed is 70. •Singer Don McLean is 63. •Country singer Jo-el Sonnier is 62.
Clutch Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
The Black List Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Elvis Mitchell The Legs Are the Last to Go: Aging, Acting, Marrying, Mothering, and Other Things I Learned the Hard Way Diahann Carroll Hiding in Hip Hop: On the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry–From Music to Hollywood Terrance Dean The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music Steve Lopez Afeni Shakur: Evolution...
Hacking NetFlix (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Roger Ebert explains to a reader why he didn't review Disaster Movie: Q. Yo dude, u missed out on "Disaster Movie," a hardcore laugh-ur-@zz-off movie! Y U not review this movie!? It was funny as #ell! Prolly the funniest movie of the summer! U never review these, wat up wit dat? S.J. Stanczak, Chicago A. Hey, bro, I wuz buzier than $#i+, @d they never shoed it b4 hand. I peeped in the IMDb and saw...
The Latin Americanist (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Renowned actor and philanthropist Paul Newman passed away over the weekend at the age of 83. “The Hustler,” “Cool Hand Luke”, and “Slap Shot” were just some of the movies he appeared in though he was also known for his charitable work. His death has been mourned by many from film expert Roger Ebert to the average Iranian . Below is a clip to “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” where Butch and the...
