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At the Movies (also known as At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert) is an American movie review television program that aired from 1982 to 1990. It was produced by Tribune Entertainment and was created by Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert when they left their show Sneak Previews, which they began on Chicago's PBS station, WTTW, in 1975.
On-screen graphic from Roger Ebert & the Movies. Ebert continued the show with a series of guest critics. [28] [29] Originally retaining the Siskel & Ebert title, the program was renamed Roger Ebert & the Movies on the weekend of September 4–5, 1999, after Siskel's death. The guests matched wits with Ebert and tested their chemistry.
Richard E. Roeper (born October 17, 1959) [1] is an American columnist and film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times.He co-hosted the television series At the Movies with Roger Ebert from 2000 to 2008, serving as the late Gene Siskel's successor.
From 2006 through August 2008, he appeared frequently on At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper, first as one of numerous guest critics filling in for the late Roger Ebert while he was on medical leave, and becoming a semipermanent cohost with Richard Roeper in the months before Roeper and Ebert ended their association with the series. [4]
Starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater, this 1989 flop-turned-cult-classic movie was later adapted into a musical. The movie had a production budget of $3 million, but it never made a profit ...
"Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults" (Max) In 1997, 39 members of Heaven’s Gate , a celibate religious sect, died in a mass ritual suicide timed to the approach of the Hale-Bopp Comet.
Cult of Love would be a laugh-a-minute romp if it wasn't for the long-simmering tension and sharp gut-punches. And that's by the design; after all, the laughter and smiles aren't shallow, but very ...
Even as he used TV (and later the Internet) to share his reviews, Ebert continued to write for the Chicago Sun-Times until he died. [67] On February 18, 2009, Ebert reported that he and Roeper would soon announce a new movie-review program, [68] and reiterated this plan after Disney announced that the program's last episode would air in August ...