In November 1975, Chicago Tribune critic Gene Siskel and Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert went into a WTTW studio to tape ...

DCASE and the Chicago History Museum will present a series of movies and events starting Wednesday, November 5, at the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- "Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever" is a new book about the Chicago film critics who famously talked about movies from across the aisle on TV for decades.

Like any great rivalry, the competition and, later, the lucrative partnership between Chicago Tribune film critic Gene Siskel and Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert has been dissected and ...

If you need a last-minute holiday gift idea for the cinephile in your life, you could do worse than picking up Matt Singer’s “Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed the Movies Forever.” In this ...

Danny Cox has never seen a movie in his entire life. There are no two film critics as well-known as Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert. The famed hosts of At the Movies spent over twenty years together ...

Roger Ebert had some notorious takedowns of films he did not care for, including this Kurt Russell sci-fi pic from the 1990s.

I do not know Matt Singer, the author of “Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever,” which was published Oct. 24 and which the Tribune’s Michael Phillips recently praised, calling ...

Jeremy has more than 2000 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel were always known for their brutal honesty when it came to film criticism. But the time they bashed “The Three Amigos” to Chevy Chase’s face once led to an unexpected ...

Collier Jennings is an entertainment journalist with a substantial amount of experience under his belt. Collier, or "CJ" to his friends and family, is a dedicated fan of genre films - particularly ...