Book description
Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB.
You asked whether Siskel & Ebert had given it “two thumbs up.”
On a cold Saturday afternoon in 1975, two men (who had known each other for…
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1 author picked Opposable Thumbs as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book took me back to a pivotal time in my life: being a kid and staying up late to watch Siskel & Ebert. I loved movies from a young age and devoured every review, Entertainment Weekly and book on film criticism I could find. Siskel & Ebert were a godsend.
These two Chicago-based film critics taught me so much about filmmaking and film criticism and introduced me to a plethora of movies and talent in front and behind the camera that still influence me and my career to this day. Every page made me nostalgic for those nights when…
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