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 ...

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.

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 ...

I do not know Matt Singer, the author of “Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever,” which was published Oct. 24 and which the Tribune’s Michael Phillips recently praised, calling ...

When Siskel and Ebert Defended ‘Star Wars’ After It Was Called Not Cinema When 'Star Wars: Return of the Jedi' hit theaters in 1983, it was a hit beloved by fans and even iconic critics Gene Siskel ...