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 ...

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 ...

In the late 1960s, Gene Siskel was a young reporter at the Chicago Tribune and Roger Ebert a young reporter at the rival Chicago Sun-Times when each was offered his respective newspaper’s movie beat.

We who toil in the field of movie criticism do so in the shadows of Mount Siskel and Mount Ebert. And so, on Saturday, when the news came down that Gene Siskel had passed away at age 53, a tremor ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most people seem to accept that Back to the Future Part II is one of the greatest sequels of the 1980s. It’s pretty much impossible for anything to live up to the original, but by broadening the story ...