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.

During the late 1980s, when his movie review show with fellow film critic Roger Ebert was called “Sneak Previews,” Gene Siskel would occasionally take cat naps under the table in their station’s ...

In “Opposable Thumbs,” Matt Singer recalls the risky business of putting newspaper movie critics on TV — and the “combustible chemistry” that made it a hit. By Richard Zoglin Richard Zoglin is a ...

Famed movie critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert hated the Friday the 13th franchise for its portrayal of violence against women and its negative view of human nature. Gene Siskel went as far as to ...

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 ...

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