Gene Siskel once tried to sabotage an interview Roger Ebert had arranged with Nastassja Kinski. Getty Images. Still, the allure of television was too great for them to refuse.

Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert inspired a generation of future film critics. Matt Singer returns the favor in 'Opposable Thumbs,' his bio of the odd couple.

Siskel and Ebert were very different personalities, but both of them left us much too soon following battles with cancer. Siskel was only 53 at the time of his shocking death in 1998.

The book “Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever” comes out Oct. 24. It’s a ... Like any great rivalry, the competition and, later, ...

Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever By Matt Singer (G.P. Putman's Sons, 352 pages, $30) In the late 1960s, Gene Siskel was a young reporter at the Chicago Tribune and Roger ...

Matt Singer’s new book, ‘Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever,’ reveals how the Chicago film reviewers became a phenomenon.

‘Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever’ By Matt Singer G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 352 pages. In 1975, two critics and bitter rivals — Gene Siskel at the Chicago Tribune and Roger Ebert ...

Siskel had a hit-and-miss attitude toward action movies, especially those that employed these cheesier elements. He ended up regarding some beloved classics as the worst action movies of all time.

Siskel and Ebert disagreed often — and often with an annoyance that wasn’t feigned. More notable, however, were the times they teamed up. While Singer, ...

Roger Ebert, left, and Gene Siskel in 1987 on the set of their TV show. (Michael L. Abramson/Chronicle Collection/Getty Images) Review by Louis Bayard We begin with a warning. Per the U.S. Patent ...

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 ...