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.” In this ...

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 ...

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That’s how Matt Singer, author of the upcoming book “Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever,” describes the two most famous film critics in history. Like countless fans of his ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- "Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever" is a new book about the Chicago film critics who famously talked about movies from across the aisle on TV for decades.

A Thursday program at the Dearborn Public Library would get two thumbs up from Siskel and Ebert. Matt Singer, author of the newly released "Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever, ...

DULUTH — Siskel and Ebert only hugged once. It was 1985, and they were backstage waiting to be interviewed by Johnny Carson for the first time. "They started playing 'The Tonight Show' theme," Ebert ...

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In 1975, two critics and bitter rivals — Gene Siskel at the Chicago Tribune and Roger Ebert at the Chicago Sun-Times — were coaxed into collaborating on a public television talking heads series about ...