Ebert & Roeper - 08.10.08 - guest host Michael Phillips

If you haven't already heard, Roger Ebert & Richard Roeper are leaving the show ("At the Movies"). Roeper's last show will be the weekend of August 16 - 17, but he intends to move to a new show "that honors the standards established by Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert more than 30 years ago."



"At the Movies" will continue, starting the weekend of September 6. The new co-hosts will be Ben Mankiewicz (from cable's Turner Classic Movies), and Ben Lyons (from cable's E! Entertainment Television).



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Richard Roeper's last show of Ebert & Roeper will be the last of these torrents.

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More info at these CNN.com links:

Ebert and Roeper leaving 'Ebert & Roeper'

Departure of Ebert, Roeper is 'end of an era'





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Ebert & Roeper - August 10th, 2008 - with guest host Michael Phillips, film critic for the Chicago Tribune



---- New movies this week:

Pineapple Express

Elegy

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Hell Ride



--- Next Week

The Rocker

Tropic Thunder

--- Coming Soon

Star Wars: The Clone Wars



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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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Pineapple Express - down - down

-- co-written by Judd Apatow

-- Seth Rogen - James Franco - Amber Heard



Elegy - (rent it) up - (beautiful) up

-- based on a Philip Roth novel

-- Ben Kingsley - Penélope Cruz - Patricia Clarkson - Dennis Hopper - Deborah Harry - Peter Sarsgaard



The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 - up - up

-- Alexis Bledel - America Ferrera - Blake Lively - Amber Tamblyn - Blythe Danner



Vicky Cristina Barcelona - up - up

-- Scarlett Johansson - Penélope Cruz - Javier Bardem - Rebecca Hall - Patricia Clarkson



Hell Ride - down - up

-- produced by Quentin Tarantino

-- written & directed by Larry Bishop

-- Larry Bishop - Eric Balfour - Dennis Hopper - Vinnie Jones - Michael Madsen



---Thumbs Up Video

--Phillips:

How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer - 2005 - (amazon)

--Roeper:

Smart People - 2008 - (amazon)



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

3 - Sixty Six

2 - Frozen River

1 - WALL·E



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