Life Itself documentary review: he found it at the movies
A touching biography, and an accidental look at the tremendous upheaval that journalism has weathered in the past half century.
Gene Siskel
the best tribute I can offer Roger Ebert…
…is a rerun of my What Film Critics Do meme thingy.
question of the day: Is there room for film criticism on TV anymore?
Roger Ebert says At the Movies must end unless financial backing can be found. How much should we worry that its end means the end of intelligent criticism on TV?
question of the day: Can Roger Ebert’s new ‘At the Movies’ survive in the current TV environment?
Roger Ebert announced earlier this week that he will be producing a new version of At the Movies, the PBS and later syndicated film criticism series he and Gene Siskel pioneered in the 1970s…
watch it: “Urlesque.com: The Darker Side of Siskel and Ebert”
Outtakes from their old review show that highlights a side of their pairing we never saw on TV:
because Seth MacFarlane is a bigger jerk than we knew
On the recent episode of Family Guy entitled “Big Man on Hippocampus,” a blurb on a Pretty Woman video box reads: “This movie made me laugh so hard, I had mild headaches. So I went to the doctor and got myself checked out. I am currently waiting for the results. –Gene Siskel.” Because brain cancer … more…
question of the day: Is film criticism on TV officially dead?
You may have heard already: Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz have gotten the boot as the hosts of the syndicated TV series At the Movies, long the bastion of Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel. They’ve been replaced by the New York Times’ A.O. Scott and the Chicago Tribune’s Michael Phillips. But this isn’t necessarily good … more…
