‘Lyons & Mankiewicz At the Movies’ Promises A Bold New Era of Critic Hackery
Monday’s news that Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper officially ended their eponymous film-review show might have presaged a dark, thumbless era of criticism, but we’re learning today that all is not lost. The higher-ups at Disney are reportedly set to relaunch At the Movies with unique incestuous flava for a new generation, inviting E! fluffer Ben Lyons and ex-Young Turk/current TCM host Ben Mankiewicz aboard for all the middlebrow, multiplex-ready chatter America can stand. And to hear the guys tell it after the jump, they can’t wait to get started:
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I have seen the new program and it is no longer worth watching. I have watched for years and am disappointed and disgusted by the new show. Especially sickening is the annoying, spoiled, smirking Ben Lyons. To simply look at him is to hate him. To listen to him is to be justified. What stupid ignoranus executive ruined this program???
The new program is unwatchable, their reviews banal and utterly free of insights. The “Worst Of” was the last straw. Hasta la vista. Lyons and Mankiewicz cannot hold a candle to ANY of the guest hosts that have sat in the critics chair across from Ebert or Roeper, much less to Roeper and Phillips.