Ebert & Roeper - 08 10 08 - guest host Michael Phillips torrent

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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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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