Michael Phillips – Page 118

Milos Stehlik, the founder of Facets Multi-Media, poses with bookshelves of videos in 2009.

Milos Stehlik of Facets: a major force in Chicago cinema deals with cancer, and his organization’s next phase

July 7, 2019 at 9:28 a.m.

The voice is higher now, and fainter. There's a rasp unfamiliar to those who know it from Milos Stehlik's wide-ranging film commentary over the years on the WBEZ-FM public affairs...

‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ review: After the ‘Endgame,’ Spidey takes a European vacation (and saves the world)

July 1, 2019 at 11:09 a.m.

Spider-Man's webs, spritzed all over the five boroughs of New York City and hanging from every other lamppost, are the perfect metaphor for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The individual movies...

‘Midsommar’ review: ‘Hereditary’ director follows up with a scary vacation trip

July 1, 2019 at 11:17 a.m.

In a movie world of bantamweight scares, designed primarily to get you to the next gotcha, writer-director Ari Aster is an outlier. He doubles down on really just making the...

‘Annabelle Comes Home’ review: Adventures in babysitting a devil doll

June 26, 2019 at 2:00 p.m.

Set in 1973, amid a forest of shag carpeting, "Annabelle Comes Home"is a nice little summer surprise, and quite unexpectedly the freshest of the three "Annabelle" movies spun off from...

‘Toy Story 4’ review: Triumph of the spork!

June 20, 2019 at 8:09 a.m.

In a simple stroke of do-it-yourself genius, "Toy Story 4" introduces a pip of a character made out of a spork, named Forky. He is a googly-eye startle reflex in...

Why moviegoing isn’t dead yet, despite rumors to the contrary

June 20, 2019 at 11:58 a.m.

"Toy Story 4" opens this weekend. The owners of the nation's roughly 4,100 movie theater screens are hoping its arrival will mean big business. The previous "Toy Story" made a...

‘In the Aisles’ review: Love among the forklifts, with the star of ‘Toni Erdmann’

June 18, 2019 at 4:56 p.m.

Somewhere near a freeway in Germany, surrounded by industrial farmland, the star of "In the Aisles" — a Costco-style big-box store — opens its doors each day for customers. The...

‘Echo in the Canyon’ review: A ’60s musical flowering gets plucked by Jakob Dylan’s vanity project

June 22, 2019 at 11:20 p.m.

How did an apparently sincere tribute turn into such a weirdly clueless vanity project? The music scene evoked in the documentary "Echo in the Canyon" remains a chimerical wonder, equal...

Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson in a scene from Columbia Pictures' "Men in Black: International."

‘Men in Black: International’ review: Lights! Camera! Mildly entertaining action!

June 14, 2019 at 6:45 a.m.

When you're watching a promotional screening of a big summer picture, and the movie is more or less doing its job without really taking off, it's instructive to listen to...

‘Last Black Man in San Francisco’ review: This old house tells a story

June 11, 2019 at 3:19 p.m.

Allow me to introduce "The Last Black Man in San Francisco." It's a movie about real estate, unreal gentrification cycles and what it means to rage against and embrace the...

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