Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On sale for $26 (regularly $29), Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever takes a look at the history of their ...

The quarrelsome celebrity film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert disdained backbiting. As Siskel explained, what they relished was frontbiting: “You should be encouraged to meet your competitors, to ...

Humans rely on opposable thumbs for everything from eating to writing to building entire civilizations. It feels like a uniquely human advantage. However, several animals also evolved thumbs that can ...

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. After a few years of ...

The new book chronicles how the legendary film critics changed moviegoing and pop culture for more than 50 years. By Rudie Obias If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a ...