We called one of them “Fatty” and the other one “Skinny,” and surely we weren’t the only ones. When it came to our moviegoing habits, their word was the beginning and the end. Matt Singer, author of ...

That’s how Matt Singer, author of the upcoming book “Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever,” describes the two most famous film critics in history. Like countless fans of his ...

Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, hosts of "Siskel and Ebert." The film world is mourning the loss of critic Roger Ebert, who died today at age 70 after a decade-long battle with cancer. But most of us ...

This interview was originally broadcast on March 21, 1996. Thirty-five years ago, the late Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert began reviewing films together on a local Chicago TV show called Sneak Preview-- ...