Roger Ebert is bringing back his classic At the Movies review show. Watch Ebert use his computer-assisted voice to review the documentary 45365 in a promo reel for Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies.
Luckily we have a plan. And it's a good one. Also today: Tim Allen would like a job please, a Marilyn Monroe movie finds a male star, and the bizarre Spanish-language Will Ferrell movie finds some sexy native speakers.
Last Thursday, Current TV's movie review program The Rotten Tomatoes Show decided to go all New Coke on its viewers and change its formula.
Well, she really doesn't want to, but she might have to. Plus: a YouTuber becomes a TV movie star, the balcony closes for good, Diablo Cody makes her All About Steve, and fat people ruin America. Also, Sarah Palin.
You want serious critics?! You sure you want 'em? How bad do you want 'em? We rose up against the frivolity of Bens Mankiewicz and Lyons. And now meet the This-Is-Cinema dream team — A.O. Scott and Michael Phillips.
• NBC is pulling out all the stops to promote Jay Leno's new show. Don't believe it? Try this out for size: "In early September, NBC will even adopt a portion of Interstate 10 in California to reiterate Mr. Leno's time slot." [NYT]
• Notwithstanding the Leno blitz, NBC is still looking to cut its budget. [NYT]
• No…
So the weekend box office numbers are in and they've confirmed something I'd already suspected: I'm the only upright-walking mammal with at least twelve dollars of disposable income who hasn't seen Star Trek.
We (and you) were none too pleased when Ben Lyons joined Ben Mankiewicz as the host for At the Movies earlier this year, particularly when we considered Lyons' track record as something of a half-wit Richard Roeper to Mankiewicz's low-rent Roger Ebert. And while Mankiewicz has settled in relatively well in the last…
At perhaps the worst time in years for new movies, and with little advance fanfare from their Disney benefactors, the Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz era of At the Movies officially began over the weekend. If you happened to miss it (who are we kidding, of course you did), never fear: We attempted some of the heavy…
I really dislike critics of any kind, subscribing as I do to the theory that they're people who cannot even for a second do the things they are paid to bitchily criticize. But I've watched At the Movies since I was a little kid and over those long years I developed a love for Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel. And, given…
Oh boy! Here come the 9/11 Comedies, according to Politico! Hollywood is finally catching up with the internet. And al-Qaeda. Though their "Sept. 11 comedies" are Harold and Kumar Go to Guantanamo Bay, which is not really about 9/11, and some John Cusack Halliburton satire, which is about Iraq, and Zombie Strippers,…
Last night I went to see "Walk Hard," the John C. Reilly vehicle about the fast times of a rock star, and while I wouldn't dissuade you from doing the same, it is true that I rarely LOLed. A parody of rock biopics lives and and dies by the funniness of its parody songs, and the ones in "Walk Hard" are, for the most…
When Juno, the 16-year-old heroine of the movie being marketed hardest to my generation this holiday season, tells her best friend she's pregnant, the friend's first reaction is, "Honest to blog?" CLUNK. But in spite of being forewarned about that line in the movie's ubiquitous T.V. spots, and in spite of David…
Two minutes or so into 'Hannah Takes The Stairs,' the little film that's had its proverbial shaggy haircut lovingly mussed by every critic under the sun, a dickish but clueless boss character announces to his employees that he's gonna "go check my email and update my blog and all that." Upon hearing this line, the…
If you have balls, they were probably sweating their asses off in yesterday's heat. Fortunately, the frigid air of the multiplex provides some relief in this summer of the sequel. Richard Blakeley and the Cajun Boy headed over to Times Square's AMC Empire 25 theater to take the pulse of moviegoers who caught the…
All this summer movie season, we're sending Richard Blakeley and the Cajun Boy to different New York multiplex flicker huts to see how viewers enjoyed their two hours of brain no-thinkee time. This week, the cineastes of Union Square's Regal Stadium 14 let you know how they liked the newest edition of the George…
Is there a more American way of spending your hot summer weekend than sitting benumbed in some air-conditioned popcorn palace while the latest installment of some celluloid masterpiece based upon a comic book or amusement park ride unspools across the screen? We sent Richard Blakeley and the Cajun Boy around to…
