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.

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.” ...

Only the best movies, of course, earned the elusive “two thumbs up” rating — consensus, after all, was rare. Siskel and Ebert would be the first to admit that their televised animosity was ...

EVAN AGOSTINI/GETTY IMAGESRoger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert, ... Two thumbs down for Ebert and Roeper. Published: Jul. 21, 2008, 6:58 p.m. By .

The new book Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever hits shelves October 24th. Listen below as John Landecker talks to author Matt Singer about how Siskel and Ebert changed the ...

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 are beloved movie critics, but their time on an iconic show they also reviewed is still a ...

The Siskel & Ebert rivalry, and its legacy, comes alive in the new book ‘Opposable Thumbs’ Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune Wed, October 11, 2023 at 10:45 AM UTC ...

The Issue: The passing of legendary movie critic Roger Ebert after a lengthy battle with thyroid cancer. *** Life is certainly not for sissies — one could’ve asked film critic Roger Ebert, who ...

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

Following Siskel's death in 1999, the show title was changed to include his replacement, Richard Roeper. In 2002 Ebert was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, which took away his ability to speak due ...

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, c ...