Still one of the most respected and well-known critics around, Roger Ebert is still chuggin' along and reviewing movies. He started in 1967 and although he's still battling with cancer, 40 years later ...

As Roger Ebert recovers from cancer surgery, a contract dispute between the critic and Disney ABC-Domestic Television has gone public. Ebert, in the midst of ...

Our most famous film reviewer is refuting a Disney press release claiming he has exercised his right to withhold use of his trademarked “thumbs up/thumbs down” until a new contract is signed for At ...

Roger Ebert said he never gave a “thumbs down” to the use of thumbs in the film reviews for “At the Movies With Ebert & Roeper” during contract negotiations ...

Yesterday, Roger Ebert published a funny, scolding column begging owners of wide-screen TVs not to stretch square TV programs to fill their hot new television screens. “I first became aware of this ...

Ebert, 65, literally owns the rights to the trademark “thumbs,” along with the family of the Tribune’s late Gene Siskel, with whom he first teamed up on TV more than 30 years ago. But he said late ...

Thumbs up to America’s foremost film critic. Tomorrow night, recovering cancer patient Roger Ebert will demonstrate he’s the class act of journalism when he attends his 9th annual “Overlooked Film ...

It was entirely due to Roger Ebert that words I wrote first saw print. Chicago boasted four newspapers when I was growing up, but the city’s greatness as a newspaper town decidedly did not extend to ...

Did you know that Roger Ebert actually reviewed a videogame? The venerable movie critic for the Chicago Sun Times and pioneer of the thumbsup/thumbsdown rating system has enraged geeks by repeatedly ...

In an editorial published last weekend, film critic Roger Ebert seems to renege somewhat on his previous insistence that video games, a medium he finds to be "inherently inferior to film and ...

If you recall that whole 'Games Aren't Art' spiel movie critic Roger Ebert was pushing awhile back, it looks like he's softened his stance although he now compares games to sports: About year or so ...

“Roger Ebert’s Four-Star Reviews, 1967-2007” by Roger Ebert, 2007, Andrews McMeel Publishing LLC, $24.99, softbound, 932 pages: Roger Ebert’s original reviews, once published elsewhere, are here en ...