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Roger Ebert Brings Back At the Movies

You just can’t keep a good franchise down. Less than a month after At the Movies shuffled off televisions, Roger Ebert is reviving the brand name he made famous. The new version of the show — entitled Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies — will be hosted by AP film critic Christy Lemire and NPR critic Elvis Mitchell, with contributions from Kim Morgan, Omar Moore and Ebert himself. At the Movies will air on WTTW in Chicago and other PBS stations around the country starting in January 2011. [ Roger Ebert ]

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Have Television Shows Surpassed Movies in the Pop Culture Landscape?

In today’s edition of the New York Times , film critic A.O. Scott surveys the wreckage of a summer of bad movies (my eyes still burn from Eat, Pray, Love ) and wonders if “any of the movies surfacing this fall [will] provoke the kind of conversation that television series routinely do, breaking beyond niches into something larger.” Well, hopefully! But in his lament of the lameness of the film industry, isn’t Scott giving the television industry a bit too much credit?

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Christopher Nolan Wants to Direct James Bond

With the breathless hyperbole surrounding Inception only just beginning, it would surprise exactly no one if a film critic found a way to compare Christopher Nolan’s self-proclaimed dream heist epic to James Bond. Like you couldn’t picture ” Inception is The Matrix mixed with James Bond, oxygen and gold bars!” scrolling across a TV spot next week? But even if Nolan was busy aping the dapper British agent with a license to kill, it seems that his ultimate goal is to direct the dapper British agent with a license to kill. Yes, this is Bond rumor — but for once, it seems legit!

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Bruce Beresford-Redman wife Monica

“We want the person that murdered my sister,” Jeane Burgos tells ABC News. “I want this person in jail to pay for the rest of his life for what he did.” With no arrest made yet in the death of Monica Beresford-Redman – though her TV producer husband remains a person of interest – her family is traveling to Mexico to pick up her body and to get answers from authorities. In an interview with CBS News, Burgos added: “I am bleeding inside, because I can#39;t even imagine that I#39;m not going to h

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