This story originally ran in The Tribune’s Arts & Entertainment section on April 19, 1998. Movie critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert have co-hosted the weekly, nationally syndicated film review ...

This story originally ran in The Tribune’s Arts & Entertainment section on April 19, 1998.Movie critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert have co-hosted the weekly, nationally syndicated film review ...

Gene Siskel was not the most respected of American movie critics; he wasn’t even the most accomplished half of “Siskel & Ebert” — after all, Roger was the one with the Pulitzer Prize. But ...

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.

In 1998's Godzilla, actor Michael Lerner played "Mayor Ebert," whose right-hand man was named Gene. Although some detractors winced as Siskel and Ebert became celebrities, ...

It was the late '70s. I was 10 or 11 years old, and quickly coming to realize that I wasn't good at much of anything. If you've ever wondered who ...

Movie critic Gene Siskel is back in his balcony seat and ready to give any deserving film a big thumbs down. The Chicago-based critic was back in the TV studio for the first time Wednesday ...

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.