Indeed, although Ebert thought that the film didn't really build much momentum and was more of "a meandering picture," he still loved the visuals, the atmospheric world, and the leading characters.

Gene Siskel, left, and Roger Ebert, photographed in Los Angeles in 1986, had a contentious relationship that made their TV shows about movie criticism major hits, as chronicled in Matt Singer’s ...

The problem with “Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever" is that it's hard to sum up what was so special about these men and their show.

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, ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

And Siskel and Ebert landed at No. 10, behind Michael Eisner (then CEO of the Walt Disney Company which owned the show in its most popular stretch). Behind Eisner, ...