Roger Ebert: More Than a Critic
I’ve never felt such a personal attachment to someone I didn’t know personally. Upon hearing the news of Roger Ebert’s passing last week, I couldn’t help but get teary-eyed. America had lost one of its grea...
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R.I.P. Roger Ebert
Just days after announcing that he planned to cut back on his writing responsibilities and settle into a state of semi-retirement, America’s preeminent film critic Roger Ebert passed away on Thursday. This follows a famously...
Rex Reed Is a Dick
Forgive the blunt headline, but really, nothing else would do. While the overwhelming majority of reviewers who were forced to endure it (including Bryan here) concluded that the new comedy ‘Identity Thief’ is a pretty...
‘At the Movies’ 2011 Premiere Recap: “Welcome Back to...
The newly-revived ‘Ebert Presents At the Movies’ made its premiere on PBS stations over the weekend. Are new hosts Christy Lemire and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky the next Siskel & Ebert? To use a phrase that was repeated...
Ebert Reopens the Balcony Today
After many incarnations spanning a 35-year history, the movie review program most recently known as ‘At the Movies’ was canceled by production studio Buena Vista back in August of last year. Well, it turns out that you...
The Balcony Is… Well, You Know…
The studio bosses at Buena Vista announced back in March that they were pulling the plug on the long-running ‘At the Movies’ review program originally made famous by Siskel and Ebert, later sullied by “the two Be...