Ebert and Roeper News

It was set up to be a big week for Chicago Sun-Times columnist and movie reviewer Richard Roeper , but it started with hyping the relaunch of his Web site and a new deal with premium cable channel Starz , and ended with him trying to explain comments he made about the popular show he used to host with fellow film critic Roger Ebert .

I sense it's about time to share some of my thoughts about television and movie critics, myself, and the past, present and future of my corner of the critics-on-TV adventure.

From left: A.O. Scott of The New York Times and Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune, the new hosts of At the Movies.

From left: A.O. Scott of The New York Times and Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune, the new hosts of At the Movies.

From left: A.O. Scott of The New York Times and Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune, the new hosts of At the Movies.

CHICAGO Ending a year-long failed experiment with two widely panned critics with television background, the movie review show "At the Movies" that began with dueling critics Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel from competing Chicago dailies is returning to its newspaper roots.

From left: A.O. Scott of The New York Times and Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune, the new hosts of At the Movies.

Influential film critics Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper are departing the movie-review show that bears their names.

Linked here are reviews in recent months for which I wrote either 4 star or 3.5 star reviews.

If you've seen the trailer for "The Hangover," which opens Friday, I'm not giving anything away with this item -- but I'm going to issue a spoiler alert anyway.

Earlier today, ABC announced that it was giving Aisha Tyler her own talk show. Well, it's about damn time! Really...what took them so long to give Tyler a forum to call her very own? And why isn't she a bigger star? She is a proven talent, a hilarious, smart -- not to mention drop-dead gorgeous -- woman who rocked Talk Soup , fit in perfectly with ...