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... Right now, the cinetrix doesn't care what you think about Roger Ebert. The man is all right in my book forever after yesterday's deft trashing of a "little" "indie" "movie" called ...
LOL: Roger Ebert Sees 8 Minutes of Movie; Reviews the Whole Film
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... This week Ebert reviewed Tru Loved, a movie in which he only sat through the first eight minutes. It received one star. The funny part of the whole thing is that Ebert wrote a full review criticizing the film, and doesn’t reveal until the fact until very end. I think Film Threat called it the first review to have a plot twist at the end, and I would tend to agree. Ebert even ...
Discuss: Roger, Dodger
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... , of which I personally know little aside from its opening in limited release this past Friday. Ebert's review is included among the six currently constituting that film's dead-even ...
Ebert Regrets Reviewing 8 Minutes of 'Tru Loved'
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... , Ebert agrees that it wasn't cool. He insists it wasn't unethical, but admits he shouldn't have done it. As penance, he watched the rest of the film and added a section to his review. "I will never, ever, again review a film I have not seen in its entirety," he says. "Never. Ever." ...
Ebert Hit Eject
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... Unless you've been living in a film industry bubble the last few days, you're probably aware of Roger Ebert's now (in)famous review of Tru Loved, which he wrote based upon notations taken during the film's first 8 minutes. After this, he paused his screener, and the temptation to forgo the remainder became too great for him to ignore. He typed up his review and sent it to his editor at the Chicago Sun-Times, who had one objection -- she felt Ebert was ethically obligated to disclose outright the fact that he had only seen the movie's first 8 minutes. Ebert ...
'A-Team' in 2010, 'Thor' Talk, 3-D 'Cleopatra', New Posters and Trailers
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... . UGO has a crotch stabbing themed poster for My Bloody Valentine in 3-D . The teaser poster for Watchmen is here . Here's a poster for Hotel for Dogs starring Emma Roberts and one for Hunger right here . Terminator Salvation has wrapped shooting and is in post-production . For some reason people are reporting on a FAKE trailer for a Flash movie that hasn't even been greenlit. Roger Ebert scolds himself for this review of which he first talked about here . Apparently Dragonball is undergoing ...
Open Forum Friday: Should Critics Review a Movie If They Haven’t Seen It All The Way Through?
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... Have you ever wondered how film critics can possibly handle sitting through so many terrible movies on any given week? I mean, it might seem like they have a pretty sweet gig when you hear about them getting into advance screenings of cool movies, but just think about how much crap there is in between all the good stuff! Well, it seems that sometimes they don’t bother sitting through the crap after all. Last week, Roger Ebert caused quite a bit of controversy when he wrote a review of an independent movie called ...
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... Bloody Disgusting has the official poster for David Goyer’s The Unborn.
Film School Rejects lists five ways to save Spider-Man 4 and 5.
Hugh Jackman will star opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones in Stephen Soderbergh’s 3D rock musical Cleopatra. [Variety]
A new extended Bolt promo is annoying theater owners. [FilmChat]
Pixar’s first Cars-Toon premieres tonight on Toon Disney. [Jim Hill]
Roger Ebert went back and actually watched Tru Loved, and added to his previous ...
Roger Ebert’s Code For Critics: Don’t Be Ben Lyons
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... Such jabs at his successor must come from a place of bitterness, but it’s to Ebert’s credit that he doesn’t make it a personal attack (well, beyond quoting Lyons inane statements virtually word-for-word — but at least he doesn’t name names, right?) The Rule Book started as damage control over that whole Tru Loved debacle (in which Ebert gave the film a negative review, only admitting at the end of the write-up that he turned the screener off after 8 minutes) . It’s sort of ingenious that Ebert managed to turn a perceived lapse in his ...
Two Cents Worth
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... Meanwhile, one of our other great critics atones for his sins - Roger Ebert follows up that already infamous 8 minute review with a group of ...
Here! Films returns to the DVD market
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... with E1 Distribution (formally Koch). Their first release, naturally, will be Yojiro Takita's Departures, which won the Best Foreign Language Oscar this year, hitting shelves on 12 January. The heavily maligned teen comedy Tru Loved (you may remember what Roger Ebert had to say about this one) will be released on the same date. Two more titles, Paul Morrison's Little Ashes with Robert Pattinson as Salvador Dalí and Shamim Sarif's lesbian romantic comedy I Can't Think Straight (which is truly dreadful, by the way), will street ...
