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Ebert Compares O'Reilly to Horny Mouse
Roger Ebert, the only critic in America who understood how awesome KN0W1NG was, is taking on cable shouter Bill O'Reilly. More »
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'Roger Ebert...Can Kiss My Ass'
In your pleasant Thursday media column: Jay Mariotti is an asshole, Teens can't read, checks are bouncing, and more: More »
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Ben Stein Wins Roger Ebert's Disdain
At least America's last remaining actually influential film critic is Roger Ebert, and not, like, David Denby. Because Ebert, who can no longer speak due to removal of his cancerous jaw, now just writes crazy mean blogs and reviews and columns, calling out everyone who bugs him. Like Ben Stein, and his stupid anti-evolution movie. More »
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What Loudmouth Movie Critic Bashed the 'Old Putz' His Son Was Hired to Replace?
A tipster wasn't naming names when s/he sent word of one film critic's rather vocal dissing of another, more "highly respected" critic at a press screening earlier this afternoon. But the math seems easy enough, even for us: A father, a son and a "pathetic old putz" who's no longer on the air? Show your work after the jump. More » -
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Roger Ebert Likens Himself to Non-Schumacher Phantom of the Opera
Since Roger Ebert's return to writing after the 2006 thyroid surgery that left him without part of his jawbone, he's been a notably more adventurous scribe, unafraid to toss off deadpan satire, rice cooker meditations, and a good Ben Lyons slam now and then. Now, though, after a thoughtful essay on the internal, decay-obsessed Synecdoche, New York, Ebert has been moved to write one of his most personal stories yet: a digressive, Charlie Kaufman-esque meditation on life, death, and his new, Phantom-like face. More » -
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High on Pot: Roger Ebert's been on such a unhinged roll as of late (slamming Ben Lyons, posting creationism parodies, and handing out eight-minute reviews) that one may wonder, what's been eating him? Now, Ebert has taken to his blog with the answer: it's not what's eating him, it's what he's eating, and what's he's eating comes from "The Pot," a rice cooker that is the recipient of Ebert's new, 2590-word essay. "We try. We learn. We experiment. When we have absorbed the principle of the Pot, we will find ourselves day-dreaming new combinations." [Roger Ebert] -
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Ben Lyons Gleans Valuable Starfucking Tips From Roger Ebert
Always the type of man to make the best of a bad situation, Roger Ebert has now spun his recent Reviewgate scandal into a deeply constructive thesis on movie critic ethics. And by "deeply constructive," we mean "a point-by-point indictment of Ben Lyons" — that proven archenemy of taste, restraint and decorum in an ever-thinning field of trained professionals. More » -
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Roger Ebert's Rules Are Meant to Be Broken
Formerly rotund critic Roger Ebert has sat through approximately one billion movies, so we supported him 100 percent when he walked out of a recent indie film after 8 minutes and gave it a bad review anyway. Nothing if not willing to drag himself further into the muck, he's released a long list of his rules for critics. We can only contend the longest tenured critic in the business is cruising for a bruising this time. More »
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Roger Ebert Regrets Reviewing Movie He Only Watched For 8 Minutes
Roger Ebert survived a battle with thyroid and salivary gland cancer with his prodigious mind still intact, but ever since his notorious binder-thwacking at the hands of Lou Lumenick, things have been a little... askew. First, Rog stumped his audience with an ode to creationism that seemed more appropriate for Free Republic than the Chicago Sun-Times (later, he informed us it was just satire). Now, Ebert is in hot water after posting a review of the gay independent film Tru Loved that he admits at the end was written after watching only eight minutes. The one-star review is here, his original disclaimer is here, and Ebert's attempt to walk back the firestorm is after the jump: More » -
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How Older, White Critics Have Missed the Boat on 'Rachel Getting Married'
Most of the attention paid to Jonathan Demme's new film Rachel Getting Married has centered on the Oscar-buzzed lead performance from Anne Hathaway, but many critics are consumed with something the movie treats as a non-event: the fact that the titular Rachel (Rosemarie DeWitt) is marrying a black man, Sidney (Tunde Adebimpe of the band TV on the Radio). The interracial nature of their relationship goes unremarked upon throughout the entire film, and that fact that is vexing several film critics, who dismiss such a notion as a fantasy. Enjoy their thinly veiled discomfort with the shocking idea that white people can marry black people in 2008 without someone giving a speech about it, after the jump! More » -
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Roger Ebert, Wise Guy: Despite getting our hands on the damning outtakes of the critic's recent Q&A explaining Creationism, we allowed for the possibility that the whole episode might have just been an elaborate, tongue-in-cheek statement about people's eagerness to believe anything they see, hear or read. Right on cue, the crafty Ebert confirmed our suspicions late Tuesday in a finger-wagging ramble entitled This is the Dawning of the Age of Credulity: "Let's go to work as perceptive readers. It might be a two-step process. [...] I expected better from evolutionists." Funny — we expected better from a Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic. Anyway, Rog, we're over it. How was Eagle Eye? [Chicago Sun-Times] -
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Roger Ebert's Creationism Q&A: The Outtakes
Following the recent, violent critical confrontation from which he barely escaped alive, Roger Ebert appears to have adopted a generous new perspective on both his life (Lou Lumenick, forgiven) and his work (The Women, three stars). Nowhere is the New Ebert more conspicuous than in his fascinating tutorial about Creationism, which, he argues in his introduction, "should be discussed in schools as an alternative to the theory of evolution." More » -
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Today in Bullshit
Guys, Roger Ebert is not seriously a creationist. Just do a little search for the word "Darwin" on his website and discover the truth the POLITICALLY CORRECT SCIENCE ELITE doesn't want you to know! -
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Though Roger Ebert would rather his thwacking at the hands of Lou Lumenick be forgotten, it seems that New York Post readers aren't as quick to forgive. Lumenick's last Toronto Film Festival update neglects to mention the incident (instead focusing on an Anne Hathaway/Keira Knightley Oscar showdown), but every single commenter rips into him anyway, blaming the critic for pummeling a national treasure. "So let me guess: on your next trip you're going to run over Stephen Hawkins and maybe punch Stevie Wonder, right?!" asks one (another suggests he train his pugilism on cancer-stricken children), while the comments on Lumenick's review of The Women personally mock the writer, with one person posting, "Here's to hoping your reviews are boycotted, you are deservedly let go, and you spend the remainder of your years at the grill of a second-rate fast food restaurant." Punchy! [NY Post] -
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TIFF Tiff Update! Via MCN, we've learned that Roger Ebert has posted to his blog regarding the now-notorious thwacking he received at the hands of NY Post critic Lou Lumenick. Titled "An Incident at Toronto," Ebert confirms the NY Daily News account of the dustup, but adds that he wishes it had never been made public. "This whole matter was embarrassing, because it drew attention to me and invited pity, which makes me cringe...in one way I feel sorry for him. He had no idea who was behind him when he smacked me. Now it looked like he was picking on poor me. I have had my problems, but I promise you I am plenty hearty enough to withstand a smack, and quite happy, after the smack, to tap him again. I had to see those subtitles." [Roger Ebert] -
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Recovering Roger Ebert Pummeled By Angry 'NY Post' Critic
After a battle with thyroid and salivary gland cancer sidelined Roger Ebert and left him without part of his jawbone and unable to speak, he bravely returned to his post as film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times last year, an inspiring feat that could warm the hearts of anyone in the film industry. Anyone, that is, except gruff New York Post critic Lou Lumenick. According to the NY Daily News, both film critics found themselves at a Toronto Film Festival screening of Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, though Lumenick wasn't aware that he was sitting in front of Ebert, nor that he was blocking his view. Not long after the lights went down, Ebert tapped on Lumenick's shoulder, soliciting a shouted, "Don't touch me!" Ten minutes later, he tried again to the same response. That's when things got ugly: More » -
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"Don't Touch Me!" Post Film Critic Slugs Ill Ebert
If someone at a film screening taps you a couple times on the shoulder asking you to move over so they can see, what do you do? If you're New York Post film critic Lou Lumenick, you haul off and hit them with your binder—and then realize that you just slugged Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert, according to Rush & Molloy. Ebert can't speak, as he's been dealing with throat and thyroid cancer for years, so that explains the shoulder-tapping. But there's really no good explanation for Lumenick's hitting: More »
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Sadness. At the Movies Just Finished Its Final Episode
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 some time, I even learned to appreciate Richard Roeper when he replaced Siskel after Siskel's tragically untimely death. And I knew that Ebert and Roeper had disowned the Disney-run show and were being replaced by a couple of young nothings from nowhere. But it just hit me really hard when tonight's episode ended with Roeper announcing that it really was his final episode. And that went for Ebert too. Fuck! They really won't be back! More »
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The Few, The Brave, The 12 Percent: Meet the Critics Who Recommend 'The Mummy 3'
What is a loud, developmentally disabled summer action blockbuster to do when even Hollywood's biggest quote-whore critic won't endorse it? That's the dilemma facing The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, which, at this time Thursday, was packing a 0% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. What a difference a day makes, however, with a glint of support finally peeking through the mounting opprobrium. In the spirit of fairness and equal time, after the jump we salute some of the independent thinkers and/or drunks brave enough to stand up for Rob Cohen's crapterpiece — even including a Pulitzer Prize winner! More » -
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Lost 'Siskel and Ebert' Review Elevates 'The Hills' to Ranks of the Critically Acclaimed
A memorial rummage through the Siskel and Ebert At the Movies archives over the weekend turned up a never-before-seen clip making their program's recent dissolution all the more lamentable. To wit, behold the critical duo in their prime, debating the merits of the then fledgling MTV series The Hills. "The movie paints a tragic picture of mindless, aimless, violent and destructive behavior," Ebert notes, nevertheless endorsing the saga as a trenchant read of contemporary youth culture. His late partner Gene Siskel concurred, clearly challenged by the "hyperrealism" of its internecine 20-something Hollywood warfare and Spencer Pratt's complex douchebaggery; in their squirms and haunted eyes, the two bring an emotional resonance likely to stop miles short of new At the Movies hosts Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz. And so what if Siskel and Ebert's insights sound suspiciously like those from their 1995 review of Kids? Greatness makes its own coincidence. [Songs About Buildings and Food via Fimoculous] -
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The Night Is Darkest Before The Dawn
· If it weren't for Dark Knight news, there wouldn't have been much news at all. After dispatching the Joker, Batman took on his toughest foe to date, the deranged Momzo The Clown (specialty: extortion). Batman denies all of the charges, which is just fine with new Oscar frontrunner Aaron Eckhart. More » -
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Roger Ebert Replaced By 26-Year-Old
"Ben Lyons,[26,] a Hollywood reporter and film critic for E! News and others, and Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz [41] will take over At the Movies when its new season begins in September, Disney-ABC Domestic Television said Tuesday." [AP] -
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'Lyons & Mankiewicz At the Movies' Promises A Bold New Era of Critic Hackery
Monday's news that Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper officially ended their eponymous film-review show might have presaged a dark, thumbless era of criticism, but we're learning today that all is not lost. The higher-ups at Disney are reportedly set to relaunch At the Movies with unique incestuous flava for a new generation, inviting E! fluffer Ben Lyons and ex-Young Turk/current TCM host Ben Mankiewicz aboard for all the middlebrow, multiplex-ready chatter America can stand. And to hear the guys tell it after the jump, they can't wait to get started: More » -
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Thumbs Up for Roger Ebert
On the heels of the news that Roger Ebert will no longer be a part of At the Movies, his long-running film review show, comes word of his replacements. The dreamy Ben Lyons from E! (son of increasingly dim critic Jeffrey) and a fellow named Ben Mankiewicz will usher in a new, hipper, younger-skewing At The Movies. A sad but inevitable development. Though Ebert hasn't been on the show since 2006, recovering from various ailments related to a tumor on his salivary gland, his presence on the show will still be missed. At least we've got his myriad film reviews and blog posts to go to for his literate but accessible musings on film. More » -
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End Of Roger Ebert's TV Show
"After 33 years on the air, 23 of them with Disney, the studio has decided to take the program named Siskel & Ebert and then Ebert & Roeper in a new direction. I will no longer be associated with it." [Reuters]
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Departure Of Both 'Ebert & Roeper' Leaves Questions About Viability Of A Review Show Called '&'
We bring sad news from the ongoing Film Critic Death March: In a broken-down negotiation that we like to imagine at one point contained the exchange, "You're asking for how much money?! You think you two are the only Ebert and Roeper out there? Someone get me a Chicago phone book and I bet I'll find you an Ebert and Roeper with an opinion about movies. Even a monkey (who happens to be named Ebert and/or Roeper) could do your job!" the two star critics have pulled out of their show At The Movies With Ebert & Roeper, with legendary opinion-haver Roger Ebert hinting at disastrous creative changes to come: More » -
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Canine Masturbation in 'SATC' Earns Grudging Thumbs-Up From Roger Ebert
Even Roger Ebert, that paragon of fair-minded, populist film criticism, admitted from the outset of his recent Sex and the City review that he is "not the person to review this movie" — that his knowledge of the television show lent a certain preexisting distaste for the characters and "their bubble-brained conversations." But! Being the professional that he is, Ebert found intellectual redemption where he could: More » -
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'LAT' Oscar Blogger Rehashes 80 Year Old Argument For Reasons No One Quite Understands
The Uwe Boll of Oscar bloggers, Tom O'Neil, is at it again over at Gold Derby, where his idle hands on the slowest of slow news days has him making all kinds of trouble for one of the undisputed classics of American silent cinema. "Undisputed," that is, until today, when O'Neil asked and (regrettably) answered the positively unessential question: What was the real Best Picture Oscar winner of 1927-28? More » -
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All union strife, supermodel ass-massaging and other gossip aside, a hearty Defamer salute goes out today to Roger Ebert, whose unflappability over more than five years of cancer treatment is reaffirmed by the news he'll resume regular movie reviewing duties later this month. The 65-year-old will host his annual Ebertfest event starting April 23, followed by a return to his Chicago Sun-Times post "shortly thereafter," according to an AP report. Still unclear is Ebert's timetable for rejoining his colleague Richard Roeper on their syndicated review show; he is still unable to speak after three surgeries since 2002. Still, it's refreshing for at least one day to read about a critic coming back to his job for a change. Hats off, Rog. [AP, photo via Getty] -
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Lunch is Lost, Ticket Cost Recouped After Messy 'Funny Games' Fallout
While we're mildly impressed by the $1 million take in limited release for the bourgeoisie torture-snuff opus Funny Games (especially considering the overwhelmingly negative reviews), no story speaks higher of director Michael Haneke's success than that of one Kate Johnson, who recently gave new meaning to "box-office gross" following her trip to the movies:Finally when it was over and my "friend" looked like a deer in the headlights — I was physically sick. I demanded my money back from the box office only to have the girl laugh at me — at first. I threw up on the floor right in front of her — and it splattered.
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"MADMAN artist Vincent Gallo has issued a profanity-filled rant against Post critic Frank Scheck," says Page Six. But careful, he kills! "Gallo is well known for his off-the-wall insults. He once called critic Roger Ebert a 'fat pig with the physique of a slave trader' and wished cancer on him for a bad review. Ebert eventually did come down with the disease." [NYP] -
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Casting The Remake Of 'Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls'
That classic film, whose recent DVD release sent shockwaves of ecstasy through the blogaysphere, and whose writer Roger Ebert described it to Time as "a camp sexploitation horror musical that ends in a quadruple murder and a triple wedding," should obvs, obvs never be remade. Because it's perfect! But just in case! Here are our casting suggestions. Isn't "socialite" Olivia Palermo a dead ringer for (spoiler alert) doomed, lezzish ingenue Casey Anderson? It's eerie! Come with the gentle people to the rest of our suggestions after the jump. In the long run, you'll be glad you did. More »
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