Roger Ebert said he never gave a “thumbs down” to the use of thumbs in the film reviews for “At the Movies With Ebert & Roeper” during contract negotiations. In a statement released Friday, the TV show’s distributor, Disney-ABC Domestic Television, said Ebert had “exercised his right...
Three weeks ago I saw "The Longest Yard," and before I left for the Cannes Film Festival, I did an advance taping of an episode of "Ebert & Roeper" on which I gave a muted thumbs-up to Richard Roeper's scornful thumbs-down. I kinda liked it, in its goofy way. There was a dogg...
Note:I gave the movie a “marginal thumbs up” on “Ebert & Roeper” because I felt people might want to see it based on what was good in it, but I am fine-tuning that to a **1/2 rating because, on the whole, I don’t think the movie really works on its own, without refere...
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Roger Ebert is the Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times and cohost of the national television program Ebert and Roeper. His reviews are syndicated internationally in more than 200 newspapers and available online at www.rogerebert.com. A recipient of the 2005 Syndication Pers...
To continue on with the work that he and his partner had started, and perhaps to keep his friend's memory alive, Ebert chose to keep the program going. With the help of wife Chaz, Ebert tried out a parade of guest hosts before settling on Sun-Times colleague Richard Roeper as Siskel'...
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“Film critic Richard Roeper’s reviews and columns will not be published by the Chicago Sun-Times as an investigation is conducted into his Twitter following, the paper announced Monday,” according toThe Hollywood Reporter. THR adds...
Ebert is a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and co-hosted “Ebert & Roeper,” a weekly televised movie-review program, until 2006. He also produced and contributed to “Ebert Presents at the Movies,” which ran through 2011. ...
As Richard Roeper wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times (15 October 1995) on the occasion of their twentieth anniversary, "Siskel & Ebert took serious film criticism and made it palatable to a mass audience--and in so doing, became celebrities themselves, as recognizable as most of the movie stars...