When Siskel and Ebert Defended ‘Star Wars’ After It Was Called Not Cinema When 'Star Wars: Return of the Jedi' hit theaters in 1983, it was a hit beloved by fans and even iconic critics Gene Siskel ...

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 ...

Luna Guthrie is a Movie Features Editor for Collider, writer and film critic. She began as a writer for Collider in 2021 and joined the editorial team in 2024. She has a bachelor's degree in ...

During the late 1980s, when his movie review show with fellow film critic Roger Ebert was called “Sneak Previews,” Gene Siskel would occasionally take cat naps under the table in their station’s ...

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.

Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, hosts of "Siskel and Ebert." The film world is mourning the loss of critic Roger Ebert, who died today at age 70 after a decade-long battle with cancer. But most of us ...

The live performance is part of a month-long celebration of the pair’s influence on the movies. By Rick Porter Television Business Editor Exactly 50 years after their first joint TV appearance on ...

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 ...

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.

People who turned to the television listings in the Nov. 26, 1975, edition of the Tribune bore witness to history being made. Among the evening programs, competing with the second half-hour of “Tony ...

While 1986 was a big year for films—with a varied slate of movies including Top Gun, Platoon, Back to School, Aliens, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off dominating the box office—it was an even bigger year ...

Anita Sarkeesian made waves by pointing out how often the bodies of hurt or even murdered women are used as background decoration in video games, but the argument that the suffering of women is an ...