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Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel went at each other's throats numerous times over the years. 'Cop and a Half' may have been their ...
Best Wishes to All” is the type of unsettling, high-concept horror film that knows exactly what it wants to be and executes ...
Posing a pertinent question to the filmmakers that underlined his sheer disdain for the diabolical thriller, Ebert questioned why there was “no one connected with this project who read the screenplay, ...
The filmmaker talks about his relationship with Roger and wresting the film back from Harvey Weinstein's clutches.
Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert considered Apocalypse Now, Come and See, and Saving Private Ryan to be among the best war movies ever.
If Roger Ebert had never written a film review or ... "You can't say it wasn't interesting." Thumbs up to that. "Life Itself," a Magnolia Pictures release, is rated R by the Motion Picture ...
In 1975, two critics and bitter rivals — Gene Siskel at the Chicago Tribune and Roger Ebert at the Chicago Sun-Times — were ... Some believed the format demeaned criticism by making it a matter of a ...
Roger Ebert, of the Chicago Sun-Times ... de los Santos said. “Thumbs up. Thumbs down. The most famous thumbs in the universe, as far as I’m concerned, was created at WGN.
Journal Editorial Report: The year’s best from Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn, Mary O’Grady, Dan Henninger and Paul Gigot. Images: Shutterstock/WSJ/Reuters Composite ...
In this entertaining biography, the writer looks at how competing Chicago critics Gene Siskel and Roger ... and Ebert offered clear-eyed simplicity. The hook of the “thumbs up, thumbs down ...