Siskel and ebert two thumbs up movies list

Matt Singer presents a detailed history of the various iterations of the movie review TV show where Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel debated film quality. The show started out on a Public Broadcasting Station in Chicago and later morphed into a national syndicated weekly program.

Matt Singer documents the hostility Siskel and Ebert had for each other over many years of working together. Both men were competitors: Ebert reviewed movies for the Chicago Sun-Times (winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1975) while Siskel was the film critic at the Chicago Tribune.

From the start, the Siskel and Ebert relationship was antagonistic. But, over time, the relationship mellowed. Of course, the money factor impacted Siskel and Ebert. Starting at earning a few hundred dollars per week at the local PBS station, the Siskel and Ebert show grew in popularity and secured multimillion-dollar contracts for a national syndicated series.

Sadly, the Siskel and Ebert partnership ended in 1999 when Gene Siske Movie critic definition!