When 'Star Wars: Return of the Jedi' hit theaters in 1983, it was a hit beloved by fans and even iconic critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert — but it was also attacked for not being cinema, much the ...

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In September 1975, rival film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert joined forces for a lively PBS program called Opening Soon at a Theater Near You. Filming from WTTW studios in their hometown of ...

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.

Danny Cox has never seen a movie in his entire life. There are no two film critics as well-known as Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert. The famed hosts of At the Movies spent over twenty years together ...

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 ...

Before the age of Rotten Tomatoes metrics and Twitter dunking, there was Gene Siskel—razor-sharp, deeply informed, and unafraid to fillet a film on live television. As half of the legendary Siskel & ...

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 ...

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 ...