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 ...

Movie critic Gene Siskel watched thousands of movies during his almost three decades as a critic for the Tribune. Can you guess which popular ones he liked (and gave a thumbs-up)? And, which ones he ...

The original “Halloween” — which premiered the same year I was born — is my favorite scary movie, Chicago. Tribune’s famed movie critic Gene Siskel loved it, too. He called it “one of the scariest ...

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.

Moviegoers in Los Angeles and New York — shivering with antici … pation — already scooped up gobs of tickets for the theatrical release in September 1975. The Chicago International Film Festival ...

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 ...

Roger Ebert said he's cutting ties with the TV show that he and Gene Siskel made famous, a day after co-host Richard Roeper announced his own exit. By The Associated Press CHICAGO — Chicago Sun-Times ...

DULUTH — Siskel and Ebert only hugged once. It was 1985, and they were backstage waiting to be interviewed by Johnny Carson for the first time. "They started playing 'The Tonight Show' theme," Ebert ...

"Enemies, A Love Story” details the rise of the hit show that reinvented televised film reviews. By Andy Lewis Siskel and Ebert & The Movies - P 2012 Enemies, A Love Story, the first history of the ...