As someone who watches most new releases, I wind up listening to critics on the margins. If the logline and advertising make a movie look brutal, and I'm not obligated to see it, I'll sometimes skip the screening (if there is one) and wait for the critics to weigh in. If the reviews are middling-to-...

We are going to start our week of diversions with an awesome little faux trailer made for a little contest being held over at Filmmaking Frenzy. As many of you may know, this is an Austin based website that will just plain rock your world. It has already taken the world of Sweding to a whole new lev...

In your pleasant Thursday media column: Jay Mariotti is an asshole, Teens can't read, checks are bouncing, and more: A sad day for teen literary types: TEEN magazine and its website have been shuttered by Hearst. Seventeen will continue to publish. Kids aged 13-16 will have to read it aspirationally...

Remember back in the summer when venerable Chicago Sun-Times movie critic, Roger Ebert wrote that scathing farewell letter to Jay Mariotti? Jay does — and he's finally responded. Real Clear Sports has an excellent interview with Fanhouse's new columnist, which is just oozing with typical Mario...

Filed under: OpEd, Reality-Free I admit, I still watch At The Movies. Though I miss both Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper, I like having a weekly film review show that I can turn to. Of course, the show is a bit of a mess, and film critics Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz don't have a tenth the influence ...

Yesterday I had the pleasure of reading Roger Ebert’s eviscerating review of Ben Stein’s film “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.” I hesitate to link people there, because while it does a fantastic job of pointing out the poor logic and deceptive tactics used in the film, it ...

Roger Ebert’s comprehensive skewering of Ben Stein’s anti-evolution film Expelled (a right-wing Michael Moore-ish piece of deceptive propaganda) is a must-read: Win Ben Stein’s mind. Toward the end of the film, we find that Stein actually did want to title it “From Darwin to ...

Last week, there were a lot of responses to Roger Ebert’s passionate condemnation of what he termed the CelebCult - a phrase that speaks for itself. The posts were almost immediate, either pointing out the article’s existence or taking the long road toward claiming Ebert was spot on. I m...

Roger Ebert bitch-slaps Ben Stein......

Two Thumbs Down I remember turning on Clerks 2, and being immediately turned off by the technicolor-- something about it didn't feel right. The original's black and white made the convenience store where Dante works seem bleak and depressing-- made even moreso by the steel shutter that wouldn't open...