Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Online Movie Critics

Bev found the site for Roger Ebert's successor program that we were discussing last Saturday:
Regarding the 2010-12 movie review program that reprised the PBS Ebert-Siskel show concept: "Ebert Presents At the Movies", apparently, it HAS discontinued taping.  But it DID spotlight a number of really interesting reviewers, two in particular: Christy Lemire and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky(Christy and Ignatiy did the "from the balcony, thumbs up/down" routine each week a la Siskel and Ebert).

A website for the show remains, including the page with a list of all the reviewers .

FYI: While he was alive, Roger was one of the critics for the show, his reviews being voiced by radio personality Bill Curtis or another local Chicago character.
 Linda forwarded along a number of additional links to sites for movie reviews (clickable links):

Movie review websites:

Film.com
Slashfilm.com
Cinemablend.com
The A.V. Club  
Movie Fone 
Criterion Corner (Twitter)

Film reviewers (on Twitter):
David Ehrlich 
Jordan Hoffman 
Eric Snider 
Mel Valentin 
Sean Hutchinson 
Katey Rich 
Marya 

Film podcasts (on Twitter):
Op Kino

I personally have a couple of other sites I like to go to. Both are survey sites of critical opinions from around the nation and both contain searchable databases. The one I mentioned during the group discussion is Rotten Tomatoes, and another one I use a lot is the Movie Review Query Engine.







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