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Departure Of Both ‘Ebert & Roeper’ Leaves Questions About Viability Of A Review Show Called ‘&’
5:40AM Seth | We bring sad news from the ongoing Film Critic Death March: In a broken-down negotiation that we like to imagine at one point contained the exchange, “You’re asking for how much money?! You think you two are the only Ebert and Roeper out there? Someone get me a Chicago phone book and I bet I’ll find you an Ebert and Roeper with an opinion about movies. Even a monkey (who happens to be named Ebert and/or Roeper) could do your job!” the two star critics have pulled out of their show At The Movies With Ebert & Roeper, with legendary opinion-haver Roger Ebert hinting at disastrous creative changes to come: More »
Movie Criticism Inches Closer to Death as Angry MSNBC Readers Lash Out
3:25AM Defamer Hollywood | After last week’s caustic conflagration among film critics, we’ve been closely monitoring the heart rates of reviewers all over the country as even more fall away from the ranks. This week saw the departure of Matt Zoller Seitz, the New York Times contributor and House Next Door founder who stepped away to pursue filmmaking full-time. We wish Seitz all the best, because judging by this series of damning reader retorts to a recent MSNBC survey of criticism, his timing couldn’t possibly have been better: More »Herald Sun Readers Love War, Neo-Nazism And Violent Hitmen, Not So Keen On The Mentally Ill Or Stolen Generation
7:43AM Clem Bastow | Before you accuse our headline of slandering the good readers of News Ltd’s plucky Melbourne tabloid that could, it’s true!
Hun film critic Leigh Paatsch and the faithful readers voted and came up with their favourite Australian flicks of all time.
And they were:
Lantana (2001): 4% (43 votes)
Mad Max 2 (1981): 12% (110 votes)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975): 3% (34 votes)
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002): 2% (25 votes)
Romper Stomper (1992): 10% (90 votes)
Shine (1996): 3% (35 votes)
Gallipoli (1981): 23% (206 votes)
Muriel’s Wedding (1994): 12% (113 votes)
Breaker Morant (1980): 6% (60 votes)
Chopper (2000): 19% (177 votes)
It should be noted that Paatsch collated the shortlist, which is why it’s all a bit AFI-award-friendly. Had he not come up with these options, we have a feeling the list may have been more like this…
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