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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

50 year ago this week, two movie critics from Chicago changed TV history. The 50 reviews below span the show’s entire 25-year history, and I did my best to provide a wide range of reviews; some of ...