Ebert & Roeper - 03.16.08 - guest host Michael Phillips

Ebert & Roeper - March 16th, 2008 - with guest host Michael Phillips, film critic for the Chicago Tribune



---- New movies this week:

Horton Hears a Who!

Never Back Down

10,000 B.C.

Funny Games

Paranoid Park

Conspiracy



--- Next few Weeks

Drillbit Taylor

21

Leatherheads



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SPOILERS - The following list gives the thumbs up or thumbs down vote which the movies received. (Phillips - Roeper)

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Horton Hears a Who! - (renter thumbs) down - down

-- animated

-- voices by - Jim Carrey - Steve Carell - Carol Burnett - etc.



Never Back Down - down - (mindless action) up

-- Sean Faris - Djimon Hounsou - Amber Heard - Cam Gigandet



10,000 B.C. - (10,000 pounds of cheese) up - down

-- Camilla Belle



Funny Games - down - (artsy garbage) down

-- Naomi Watts - Tim Roth - Michael Pitt - Brady Corbet



Paranoid Park - (small but very rich) up - down

-- written & directed by Gus Van Sant



Conspiracy - down - down

-- Val Kilmer - Gary Cole



---Thumbs Up Video

--Phillips:

Atonement - 2007 - (amazon)

--Roeper:

Enchanted - 2007 - (amazon)

I Am Legend - 2007 - (amazon)



---NEW ON VIDEO

Southland Tales - down - (abstract crap) down

August Rush - down

Love in the Time of Cholera - (well intentioned disappointment) down - (guilty pleasure) up



---Three to See (favorite movies currently in theaters)

3 - The Bank Job - (big thumbs) up - (big thumbs) up

2 - Snow Angels - (huge thumbs) up - (great film) up

1 - In Bruges - (worth a visit) up - (big thumbs) up - "make an extra effort to see it"



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