Ebert & Roeper - July 20th, 2008 - with guest host
Michael Phillips, film critic for the Chicago Tribune
---- New movies this week:
Mamma Mia!TranssiberianThe Dark Knight - (first reviewed last week)
Space ChimpsTell No One --- Next Week
The X-Files: I Want to Believe Step Brothers --- Coming Soon
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor-------------------------------------------------
SPOILERS - The following list gives the thumbs up or thumbs down vote which the movies received. (Phillips - Roeper)
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Mamma Mia! - down - up
-- Meryl Streep - Pierce Brosnan - Julie Walters - Christine Baranski - Colin Firth - Stellan Skarsgård
Transsiberian - down - up
-- Woody Harrelson - Emily Mortimer - Eduardo Noriega - Kate Mara - Ben Kingsley
The Dark Knight - (huge thumbs) UP - (huge thumbs) UP
( maybe the best super hero movie ever made, possible best picture nomination, upset if Heath Ledger isn't nominated for best picture )
-- directed by Christopher Nolan - ( Memento - The Prestige - Batman Begins - etc. )
-- Christian Bale - Heath Ledger - Aaron Eckhart - Maggie Gyllenhaal - Gary Oldman - Morgan Freeman - Eric Roberts - Anthony Michael Hall
Space Chimps - down - up (rent it)
-- animated film
Tell No One - UP - (way) UP
-- thriller from France
---Thumbs Up Video
--Phillips:
High and Low - 1963 Akira Kurosawa film -
(amazon) --Roeper:
21 - 2008 -
one or
two disc editions
---Roeper's Three to See (favorite movies currently in theaters)
3 -
WALL·E 2 -
Hancock 1 -
The Dark Knight-------------------------------------------------
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