Richard Roeper wonders what I wonder: If you watched any football over the weekend, you probably saw a certain commercial for DirecTV once. Or twice. Or 20 times. For the last three years, DirecTV has been enlisting the services of actors who re-create a famous role in a familiar scene from a movie, before breaking character and telling us about the benefits of getting DirecTV. I can't deny the effectiveness...
I was reading the Wall Street Journal a couple weeks ago, and they reported that betting line and most of the "experts" predicted that Chicago would get the 2016 Olympics; you know how THAT worked out. My question, then, is: What are your sources of information that you most trust? It might well be different sources for different info. For instance, I find Advertising Age to be a remarkably...
Chicagoans Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert changed the face of movie criticism with At the Movies; now, another critic from the Windy City, Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips, is ready to take up the mantle on the venerable show. Phillips was a theater writer at the LA Times, the San Diego Union-Tribune, the St. Paul Pioneer Press and the Dallas Times Herald before taking over as the movie beat...
I and many other Hollywood journalists were sufficiently outraged when, one year ago, Disney/ABC's movie criticism show once hosted by Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, and then Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper, was put into the unworthy hands of Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz, both of whose primary claim to fame was nepotism. Fortunately for viewers, [...]
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This is where Richard Roeper landed after leaving Disney's At the Movies, hosting this series of docs about the various aspects of the film biz? Sorry dude. Anyhow, Starz Inside:...
In an email interview with TIME Magazine, Roger Ebert discussed his annual film festival and announced that he will be creating a new movie review program with Richard Roeper, Michael Phillips, and Christy Lemire!
400 Screens, 400 Blows is a weekly column that takes an in-depth look at the films playing below the radar, beneath the top ten, and on 400 screens or less. Lately I've been dreaming of a TV show I'd like to see. Ever since Roger Ebert hired Richard Roeper to be the permanent replacement on his review show, I've dreamed of something a bit edgier and funnier -- you know, like when Ebert used to fight...
TV News: Return of movie-themed special series at net -- Starz has announced the return of its movie-themed special series "Starz Inside" hosted by critic Richard Roeper.
Richard Roeper nailed all the major categories and was 21 for 24 in his predictions. He sums up the night in his latest blog. Who knows if Mickey Rourke’s offscreen antics cost him the Best Actor trophy. More likely, Academy voters felt Sean Penn’s performance in “Milk” was more likely to resonate through the ages. Both [...]
Are you one of those hard-to-please viewers who finds Ben Lyons 's trenchant film criticism on the new At the Movies okay, but too ... thumbless? Great news! Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper are apparently plotting a return to television. Responding to a reader-submitted question, Ebert casually slipped this line into today's edition of his weekly Answer Man column: "Another chapter to this saga...
Back in July, movie fans witnessed the end of an era when Disney/ABC announced that they would be taking their flagship movie review show At The Movies in a new direction that didn't include Roger Ebert or Richard Roeper. Since that time, their replacements Ben Mankiewicz and Ben Lyons have moved in, with Ben Lyons quickly becoming one of the most hated men in showbiz. It seems like the very idea of...
With screeners of some of the final films I need to see in order to complete my movie watching of 2008 on their way it looks like by Tuesday of next week I will have seen it all (or enough to determine my top films of 2008), but that’s in the future. For now, the [...]
Richard Roeper finds a way to mention about 5 dozen movies in his year-end wrap up , with categories as predictable as Performance of the Year Meryl Streep and Sean Penn are arguably the most...