50 year ago this week, two movie critics from Chicago changed TV history. The 50 reviews below span the show’s entire 25-year history, and I did my best to provide a wide range of reviews; some of ...

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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.

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 ...

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 ...

The crude pilot that aired 50 years ago this month on WTTW-Channel 11, starring two ill-at-ease reviewers talking about the movies, gave little hint that it would launch a deep friendship, and for a ...

Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...