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 ...

Before audiences had access to innumerate voices and professed authority on cinema via the internet, they relied on the thumb gauge of film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert. It might surprise some ...

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 ...

If you need a last-minute holiday gift idea for the cinephile in your life, you could do worse than picking up Matt Singer’s “Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed the Movies Forever.” In this ...

Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert are some of the most iconic movie critics of all time. They are known by millions of fans through their newspaper columns and, more recognizably, their hit TV show, At the ...