Michael Phillips – Page 97

‘Hamilton’ on Disney Plus: Capturing the American Experiment for the camera

July 3, 2020 at 12:54 p.m.

Lin-Manuel Miranda, librettist, composer and lyricist of "Hamilton" and originator of the title role on Broadway, knows about every little and big thing that can go right, wrong or sideways...

Carl Reiner, left, and Mel Brooks pose at the Museum of Television and Radio's salute to Sid Caesar in Los Angeles, Ca., Wednesday, March 2, 1984.

Carl Reiner appreciation: Enter laughing, exit a comic titan across 98 years

July 1, 2020 at 12:29 p.m.

When a comic giant departs this world for bookings unknown, the usual thing to say or write is: Where do you start? With Carl Reiner, it's different. Across 98 years,...

An AMC Theatre is shown in Clinton Township, Mich., Friday, May 8, 2020. All AMC theatres are temporarily closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Commentary: America’s mask problem, a multiplex suspense drama in the making

June 19, 2020 at 4:42 p.m.

Note: This column has been updated to reflect AMC Theatres' Friday reversal of its mask-optional reopening policy. Later Friday, Regal Cinemas also made it mandatory for both customers and staff...

The new ‘Candyman’ trailer, from Chicago’s Manual Cinema? chef’s kiss

June 19, 2020 at 7:29 a.m.

The stunning new "Candyman" teaser — a two-minute, 32-second nightmare of serious beauty — comes from the Chicago-based theater and shadow-puppetry collective Manual Cinema. The director of the forthcoming "Candyman"...

The good news: Lots of drive-ins popping up in Chicago this summer. The bad news: ‘The Goonies’ and ‘Ferris Bueller,’ in heavy rotation.

June 19, 2020 at 9:38 a.m.

This pandemic has taken so much away from our recreational lives this year: Live theater. Lollapalooza. The Chicago Air and Water Show. Easy access to antibacterial wipes. Drive-in movies tell...

Review: Black Chicago history, on the screen and the ‘Killing Floor’

June 17, 2020 at 11:30 a.m.

Streaming June 19 via the Film Movement through the Gene Siskel Film Center, "The Killing Floor" came together, barely, in Chicago in 1983, 12 years after the demise of the...

TOPSHOT - Cinema-goers in their cars attend the screening of the US musical romantic comedy film "Grease" during the reopening of the Autocine Madrid Race drive-in cinema, on May 27, 2020 in Madrid, as Spain eases lockdown measures taken to curb the spread of the COVID-19 disease caused by the novel coronavirus. - For many, it was a long-awaited chance to feel normal again, sitting in their cars belting out "Summer Nights" at Madrid's drive-in cinema on a rare night out after a 10-week lockdown. (Photo by Gabriel BOUYS / AFP) (Photo by GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP via Getty Images) ** OUTS - ELSENT, FPG, CM - OUTS * NM, PH, VA if sourced by CT, LA or MoD **

Sterling Bay, Davis Theater and Facets join forces for a pop-up drive-in at Lincoln Yards

June 16, 2020 at 11:54 a.m.

Chicago's increasingly crowded map of pop-up drive-in theaters just acquired another location in this strange summer of 2020. The Drive-In at Lincoln Yards opens June 25 with "Ferris Bueller's Day...

Vivien Leigh and Hattie McDaniel in 'Gone With the Wind'

Returning soon to HBO Max, after a furlough: ‘Gone With the Wind,’ with intro by Jacqueline Stewart of U of Chicago and Turner Classic Movies

June 16, 2020 at 8:44 a.m.

First of all: Nobody "banned" the 1939 Hollywood landmark/landmine "Gone With the Wind" from easy public availability. The "thought police" didn't "cancel" it. You can watch all three hours and...

Chicago’s Steve James finished his mayoral campaign documentary months ago. Then 2020 happened.

June 8, 2020 at 8:25 a.m.

Five months ago, pre-pandemic and prior to the explosive worldwide response to the May 25 killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody, Oak Park filmmaker Steve James premiered the...

Spike Lee looks on during the Slam Dunk Contest at NBA All-Star weekend at the United Center in Chicago, on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020.

Spike Lee interview: Marching against the unjust powers that be, with strong words for President Trump

June 6, 2020 at 3:49 p.m.

Spike Lee has given us war films his whole moviemaking life, wherever the stories take him — overseas in officially sanctioned conflict or, more often, to the streets on the...

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