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 ...

Collier Jennings is an entertainment journalist with a substantial amount of experience under his belt. Collier, or "CJ" to his friends and family, is a dedicated fan of genre films - particularly ...

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 his ...

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.

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 ...

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 and Gene Siskel are a famous pair of film critics who often passionately disagreed with each other's movie reviews. Both critics gained attention for their writing in their respective ...

Those who love cinema and film criticism should be more than familiar enough with Roger Ebertand Gene Siskel. Two of the best and most notorious film critics in history, the pair were the stars of ...

I have a distinct childhood television-watching memory of watching two schlubby Chicago film critics talk about a movie about a fictional British rock band in freefall from their arena-filling heyday.

Among the ranks of famous movieland duos, there are Bogart and Bacall, Gable and Lombard and Abbott and Costello, among others. Even though they never made a movie, Siskel and Ebert surely belong on ...

Amy is a third-generation Cajun from Southwest Louisiana with a love for the outdoors and dark interior rooms, respectively. She was a 'drama kid' in high school and competed at the national level.

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 ...