Ebert & Roeper - 06.29.08 - guest host Michael Phillips

Ebert & Roeper - June 29th, 2008 - with guest host Michael Phillips, film critic for the Chicago Tribune



---- New movies this week:

Wanted

Finding Amanda

Journey to the Center of the Earth

WALL·E

Encounters at the End of the World



--- Next Week

The Best Movies of the Year ... So Far



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SPOILERS - The following list gives the thumbs up or thumbs down vote which the movies received. (Phillips - Roeper)

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Wanted - down - up

-- Angelina Jolie - James McAvoy - Morgan Freeman



Finding Amanda - down - down

-- Matthew Broderick - Brittany Snow - Maura Tierney



Journey to the Center of the Earth - up - up

-- Brendan Fraser - Josh Hutcherson - Anita Briem



WALL·E - (way) up - (way) up

-- animated film from PIXAR



Encounters at the End of the World - (big thumbs) up - (big thumbs) up

-- Werner Herzog documentary



---Thumbs Up Video

--Phillips:

Mad Men: Season One - 2007 (tv) - (amazon)

--Roeper:

Sex and Death 101 - 2007 - (amazon)

Heathers - 1989 - (amazon)



---NEW ON VIDEO

Vantage Point - down - down

Drillbit Taylor - (skip this one) down - (skip this one) down

My Blueberry Nights - down - down



---Roeper's Three to See (favorite movies currently in theaters)

3 - The Incredible Hulk

2 - Wanted

1 - WALL·E



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