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NEWS ABOUT: Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert stories: 12 news summaries
Movie Review

 Don't Land On Planet 51 

Laugh-free sci-fi satire mediocre at best

Nov 20, 09 12:48 PM CST
(Newser) - It has a cool concept—a human is greeted with paranoia on an alien planet straight out of the '50s—but critics say Planet 51 never reaches orbit. Some reviews:
  • It’s a “bland, humor-free narrative,” with lame references to other movies instead of jokes, writes
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movie review • cartoon • Roger Ebert • science fiction • animated movie • Planet 51 • Planet 51 review

Times, Tribune Critics Next-Gen Siskel & Ebert

Dueling critics Scott, Phillips mark return to old At the Movies format

Aug 6, 09 8:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - At the Movies, the longtime home of Chicago critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, is getting a new pair of dueling cineastes. AO Scott of the New York Times and Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune will take over the syndicated program, which returns to the air next month. The... More »

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critic • Roger Ebert • movies • film criticism • Gene Siskel • television program • AO Scott

IN MEMORIAM

Ebert on Siskel: 'He Is in My Mind Almost Every Day'


Feb 19, 09 8:21 PM CST
(Newser) - Ten years after the death of his sparring partner, Roger Ebert pays tribute to Gene Siskel in the Chicago Sun-Times. "He is in my mind almost every day," writes Ebert. Yes, they had a sometimes volatile relationship, but the friendship endured. “No one else could possibly understand... More »

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television • Roger Ebert • Chicago Sun Times • Chicago Tribune • film criticism • Gene Siskel • remembrance

E!'s Lyons Draws Scorn of Fellow Film Critics

Lyons is a "train wreck," but reviewers have no audience

Jan 1, 09 6:23 PM CST
(Newser) - In his four months as critic on E!'s At The Movies, Ben Lyons—he who called Will Smith's I Am Legend one of the greatest films in history with a straight face—has galled the critics' community and presided over a plunge in viewership of the show once hosted... More »

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film • Roger Ebert • blogs • Ben Lyons • film criticism

 Chicago Mourns Studs Terkel 

Author, oral historian, and firebrand leftist will be sorely missed

Nov 1, 08 7:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Chicago has lost its finest citizen with the death of Studs Terkel, Roger Ebert writes in his Chicago Sun-Times blog. The author "represented the joyous, scrappy, liberal, generous, wise-cracking heart of this city," Ebert writes, and chronicled the lives of countless Chicagoans. “He was the most widely... More »

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Chicago • death • author • Roger Ebert • Studs Terkel

Ebert, Roeper Close Curtain
on At the Movies

Critics give Disney
2 thumbs down for show's new direction

Jul 22, 08 6:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper are calling it a day with At the Movies, reports the Chicago Tribune. Insiders say Disney plans to revamp the 33-year-old show and give it more of a Hollywood focus. Ebert, who holds the trademark for the show's signature thumbs up/thumbs down format, has vowed... More »

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film • ABC • Disney • Roger Ebert • reviews • movies

column


           Film Critics Fading
           in Cyber-Culture 

Fans surf web for trailers, ignore esteemed critics

Apr 5, 08 7:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Gone are the days when film critics swayed the culture and sparked serious debate, Anne Thompson laments in Variety. None of her college film students can name a critic besides Roger Ebert, though all are intense cinematic aficionados. Instead, most turn to review roundup sites, or “get their... More »

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Internet • Hollywood • film • movie review • Roger Ebert • online review

 Ebert Ready to Review Again 

Critic gives thumbs up to imminent return

Apr 1, 08 9:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Roger Ebert—beset by a series of serious health ailments in recent years—will soon resume reviewing films, he wrote in a letter to Chicago Sun-Times readers. The critic was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2002; since then he’s undergone several surgeries, including a tracheotomy that cost him his... More »

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film • movie review • critic • Roger Ebert • thyroid cancer

NEW RELEASE

Bucket List Is Leaky Schlock

Into-the-sunset tearjerker suggests that  facing cancer can be fun

Jan 11, 08 1:40 PM CST
(Newser) - The Bucket List, Rob Reiner’s new cancer comedy, “never ascends from the bowels of tearjerk formula and audience pandering," writes Newsday’s Jan Stuart. The film stars Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman as terminally ill buddies trying to do it all before they die.... More »

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Morgan Freeman • movie review • Roger Ebert • Jack Nicholson • Rob Reiner • movies

Critics Pick Top Flicks for '07

Juno, I'm Not There, and No Country take top spots

Jan 1, 08 3:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Film critics offer their top picks for 2007, ranging from quirky dramedy (Juno) to drama (Michael Clayton) to foreign fare (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly).                                                ... More »

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film • movie review • Roger Ebert • George Clooney • Sidney Lumet • Coen brothers • movies

Gurus Rack Up Ratings With Love and Hate

Who is America's most-watched pundit? Not the politico that most might think

Sep 25, 07 7:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Pundits—political and cultural commentators with big opinions—are today's media darlings and Nielsen lightning rods.  Forbes picks the loudest, most volatile and incendiary, i.e.: the ones we love to watch:
  1. Roger Ebert
  2. Bill Maher
  3. Bill O'Reilly
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Bill O'Reilly • Rosie O'Donnell • list • Roger Ebert • Al Franken • Bill Maher • Geraldo Riviera • pundits • Bill Maher Grid

Critic Carries Flag for Cancer Survivors

Roger Ebert maybe mute and bandaged, but he'll be at film festival as always

Apr 25, 07 8:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Roger Ebert will show up at his ninth annual Overlooked Film Festival in Urbana, he writes in the Sun-Times, although he's recovering from cancer surgery that's left him temporarily mute and heavily bandaged. "We spend too much time hiding illness," Ebert writes. "I'm not going to miss... More »

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cancer • film • illness • Overlooked Film Festival • Roger Ebert

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