Roger Ebert, the celebrated film critic, has passed away at age 70. Though active as a critic and pundit to the very end, Ebert had battled thyroid cancer since 2002, and lost his voice in 2006 following surgical complications.
Remember Roger Ebert's infamous assertion that video games can never be art? Well, nyah, nyah, Roger — the Smithsonian American Art Museum has unveiled its latest exhibit "The Art of Video Games."
Following Bam Margera's outrage over a Roger Ebert tweet about Jackass star Ryan Dunn's death ("friends don't let jackasses drink and drive") Ebert has taken to his blog.
So Roger Ebert went and posted that stupid tweet this morning about Ryan Dunn's death, "Friends don't let jackasses drink and drive," which he is still standing behind, but really, just shut up Roger Ebert? Nothing was conclusive at the time of the tweet, friends and fans were still in mortal shock over the awful…
Weirdo German auteur Werner Herzog's new film, Cave of Forgotten Dreams is a 3-D documentary about ancient cave paintings in the south of France. It's easily the best 3-D documentary since Justin Bieber's Never Say Never 3-D. As a bonus, it's making 3-D safe for "serious" grown-ups.
Congratulations to Roger Ebert on being this week's New Yorker cartoon caption contest winner. Truthfully, his winning entry isn't quite as funny as some of his previous efforts, which the magazine's website posted today. Everyone else: Keep trying. [New Yorker]
Roger Ebert, who lost his lower jaw to cancer, just got a brand new prosthetic chin made out of silicone. Looks pretty good! Ebert says he'll wear the prosthetic during his new PBS show.
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.
As many of you know, Comedy Central aired its David Hasselhoff roast tonight. And when Lisa Lampanelli wasn't making jokes about Roger Ebert's cancer (see the video here), Seth MacFarlane was making jokes about Anderson Cooper's sexuality! The video, inside.
Tonight, Comedy Central aired its roast of David Hasselhoff. And while roasts are known for offensive humor, Lisa Lampanelli may have gone a bit far, with jokes about the holocaust, blacks, Roger Ebert's cancer, Haiti, the oil spill, and more.
The esteemed film critic and prolific tweeter criticized five kids who wore American flag T-shirts and bandannas to school on Cinco de Mayo. The Tea Party beast was awakened, and mocked his recent cancer and the disfigurement it left him.
Of all I've learned about the Internet, I know that if I say anything negative about video games, a lot of very passionate individuals are going to threaten my life with authentic replica broadswords.
After a quarter century on the air, At the Movies has been canceled.
Every so often, something comes along to put everything in perspective. Today it's Roger Ebert talking about his life after losing his jaw. His honesty and courage is frankly amazing and we are touched. God, we hate feeling these emotions!
The first footage of today's Roger Ebert interview with Oprah is starting to trickle out. Here is him testing out a computer voice based on hours of tape of his real voice. We give it a heartwarming thumbs up.
Roger Ebert has gone off-topic of and started tweeting anti-Tea Party messages because "it's so sad how they've been manipulated to oppose their own best interests," he told the LA Times. In the same article Andrew Breitbart describes Ebert as a "caricature of the liberal mind-set" and says he has "raw contempt for…
Oprah will interview the critic (and her ex-boyfriend) on Tuesday. It is his first televised interview since losing his voice and his lower jaw due to thyroid cancer. He will use a computer text-to-speech machine. Our hearts will break.
If no one's badgered you into reading Roger Ebert's interview in Esquire, let us be the first: It's really quite good. It's not easy reading about the film critic's struggle with thyroid cancer or his jaw surgery. But it's worthwhile.
Yikes. We all knew that the new overstuffed, all-star ensemble Love Actually rip-off Valentine's Day was going to be bad — Topher Grace and Taylor Swift?? — but not this bad. The reviews are in and they are, mostly, scathing.
