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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, who went on the air together for the first time in 1975, have been off the air for a long time now. Siskel died in 1999, and Ebert bowed out in 2011, two years before his ...

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People who turned to the television listings in the Nov. 26, 1975, edition of the Tribune bore witness to history being made. Among the evening programs, competing with the second half-hour of “Tony ...

The live performance is part of a month-long celebration of the pair’s influence on the movies. By Rick Porter Television Business Editor Exactly 50 years after their first joint TV appearance on ...

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 ...