At the Movies

Siskel & Ebert is a Talk Show staring Film Critics Gene Siskel & Roger Ebert and later Richard Roeper talking about Movies and either giving it a Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down. For Example is Gene Liked Batman but Roger didn't.

With the earthly departure of Roger Ebert, the original movie critics. As both he and the late Gene Siskel made a so-called love-hate relationship of their movies turning out to being very helpful for the movie industry.

This represents a dawn of realization in my childhood. It honestly marks the first time in my life I sat back and thought "I don't care what you think.

Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton continue to illuminate. Their passion for movies, their near brawls (over such movies as Dancer in the Dark), Margaret's earrings, its all still here in At the Movies.

Since Siskel's death and Ebert's absence the show has been left in the incapable hands of Richard Roeper. Roeper is not a film critic he just criticizes anything he doesn't like personally i.

Usually I rate a show with the 10-star rating system. This time, I really can't because "At The Movies" has changed so much over the last ten years.

Out of the most prominent duos that the American TV showed in 1982 like Sam and Diane of (Cheers), Laura Holt and Remington Steele of (Remington Steele), or Cagney & Lacey of (Cagney & Lacey), still Siskel & Ebert are one of the most interesting, informative and droll duos ever been in a show, not in 1982 only, but at all. Thanks for the miracle of internet that made me watch countless episodes of their show.

With Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert becoming house hold names their popularity forced the duo to move from public TV and commercial TV. Tribune who Ebert worked for was ready willing and able to bring not only Ebert but his TV partner Siskel as well, along with their weekly discussions about current movies playing.

Richard Roeper knows nothing about film. His criticisms are entirely based upon whim, and how he thinks the movie should have been made.