Roeper's not bad, but man does he sound obnoxious, when he rips a movie.

so when is the last official "Ebert and Roeper" show and do we know if something will take its immediate place in the mean time? i really can't live without my weekly reviews fix...

Yep. At first I thought Roeper might be heading elsewhere over money squabbles, but it seems both he and Ebert had some issues with the creative side. So I suppose they'll both move on, but Roeper will probably do his own show, possibly with Ebert involved. I'm not sure if all that much will change.

According to an article posted in a this discussion in the TV Forum, the studio wants the show to be more like Entertainment Tonight/Access Hollywood.

It could be worse. Much worse. A couple years ago MSNBC had Lyons and his son Ben review movies on air. Ben makes his dad look like Pauline Kael by comparison. I remember him talking about one of the Aardman films and trashing it for not being computer animated -- because, like, computers are cool and stuff, and who would want to see traditional animation these days. The guy's taste in movies is completely drunken-frat-boy level.

Thats why I liked him too. He was very forward if he liked a movie or not. On another forum I read and post on they can't stand the guy because he defends some of the better popcorn films that come out. They think that Roeper should only give great reviews to the new art/indie films that come out and not great popcorn films like Iron Man. But these guys/girls are also the same people that think that Aint It Cool News and the like are whats wrong with film critics today.

I wasn't. Because Gene seemed to have been badly treated by the Chicago Tribune. I knew Ebert was not going to pick someone from the Chicago Tribune and he I'm sure he wanted someone local.

Well that sucks. I liked him, sad seeing both of them going. I haven't missed a show in years. I liked the fact that he seemed like the average guy. Some critics come off as enjoying nothing but Artsy type of movies.

They should replace Roeper with Aisha Tyler:





I'd hit...er, I mean I'd watch that!

Judging by the way they currently treat it? I'd say they'll replace it with infomercials.


It took awhile for me to like Roeper but in the last couple of years I've found that he and I have pretty much the same taste in movies. I can go off of his recommendation for a movie and feel confident that I'll like it as well.

It's too bad the show is over. I love being able to watch a show that's strictly about reviewing films. Those tabloid TV shows are utter trash (don't even get me started and the vile POS: Entertainment Tonight!) No celebrity gossip, no pat-on-the-back interviews, no obnoxious "comedy" bits, just good old fashion see it/don't see it reviews. I don't want anything else.



If Ebert ever loses the ability to type I'll be totally fucked!

I don't always agree with him, but I have been watching "The Ultimate Trailer Show" on HDnet with Robert Wollensky. I hated him the first time I saw him sub on E&R, and then grew into liking his style. As I said, I don't always agree with his reviews, but I love the show, and that is where I've been getting my "movie" fix (in a TV show).

from Roeper's column today:

So true. I think I was finished with him the moment he dismissed House of Mirth, a heartbreaking film, as "a hat movie".

I was also bugged how he always used so many of his reviews to assert his heterosexuality. He was always interjecting some awkward tidbit about his memory of Phoebe Cates getting out of the pool, or wondering who would leave Diane Lane on shore. Yes, Richard, we get it. You're not gay.

kind of glad now hes leaving since ABC is trying to turn the show into another ET

"Ebert and ABC have been engaged in difficult contract renegotiations for the past year and its been revealed that the departure is mainly due to ABC wanting to take the show in a more "Entertainment Tonight"-style gossip direction."

How about getting..

Dwayne Edwards & Antoine Merryweather


or Speed and Tyrone




Sad to see the end of an era in television.

Link Here

At the Movies' gets news hosts Lyons, Mankiewicz By LYNN ELBER, AP Television Writer
25 minutes ago



Over the years, TV's best-known movie review show has gone from hosts Siskel and Ebert to Ebert and Roeper to Roeper and guest critics — and now it's Lyons and Mankiewicz.

Ben Lyons, a Hollywood reporter and film critic for "E! News" and others, and Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz will take over "At the Movies" when its new season begins in September, Disney Domestic Television said Tuesday.

Don't look for the syndicated program's "thumbs up-thumbs down" ratings to return. Roger Ebert shares a trademark lock on it with the widow of his late co-host, Gene Siskel, and Ebert has said they're hanging on to it.

Is he that smarmy bald guy with glasses who always says how much better the book of the film they are reviewing is?

I think it is Robert Wilonsky, and I think that guy is a distant relative of mine.

r these guys any good? don't know either...

Ben Mankiewicz is pretty good. You'll see him on TCM and I've seen him on TMZ a couple of times. I have no idea who the other guy is, however.

As was thinking about this; Mankiewicz and Robert Osborne would make good co-hosts.

I used to watch that show regularly (for a laugh). Your description is spot on. And Ben is going to be the co host of the new At The Movies with Ben Mankiewicz. Another reeltalktv lightweight no real film criticism show.

That statement from Roeper indicates pretty clearly he's just moving to another program/network....so not much should change. I dvr Roeper every week - just watched it last night. it's the only movie review show worth watching.

jesus....doesn't anyone actually READ things that are posted?

Did I ever jinx it.

Jeffrey Lyons loves every movie he watches. Just read the ads for a typical stinkbomb, and chances are, Lyons is the only critic that's quoted with a rave review.