Michael Phillips – Page 98

Criterion Channel, a refuge for cinephiles, is making much of its Black filmmakers’ work free online

June 5, 2020 at 9:44 a.m.

I write today as a critic, a consumer and a citizen, on the subject of the Criterion Channel. It's one of the bright lights of the streaming universe, with an...

Michael Chiklis as Det. Vic Mackey, left, is shown in a scene from the 2008 series finale of "The Shield."

Commentary: Out of ’60s chaos, Dirty Harry and Popeye Doyle ruled the streets with impunity. We’ve been paying for it ever since

June 3, 2020 at 8:48 p.m.

By now it's clear our president isn't looking for guidance from statesmen, real or fictional. He's looking instead to the movie tough guys of the early 1970s, born of the...

Review: ‘The Grey Fox’ returns to steal your heart, in a beautiful digital restoration

June 2, 2020 at 1:40 p.m.

Some films warrant the 4k digital restoration treatment more than others. The 1982 Phillip Borsoscharmer "The Grey Fox," streaming Friday by way of Music Box Virtual Cinema, deserved it, as...

A throwback trailer from The Sandlot movie plays at McHenry Outdoor Theater on Friday, May 8, 2020 in McHenry. Drive-in owner Scott Dehn estimates 350 cars with over 1300 guests attended opening night.

Music Box Theatre, Bucket Listers compete this summer for Chicago drive-in business

May 28, 2020 at 8:24 a.m.

This summer in Chicago, movie-starved audiences with access to a car and an eagerness to get their hindquarters off the couch for a few hours can check out two competing...

Comedian and podcaster Ron Funches spent his childhood in Chicago.

Bob Odenkirk, Michael Shannon, Beck Bennett, Ron Funches, Lili Trifilio and 19 other Chicago celebrities offer advice, congrats to 2020 high school graduates

May 22, 2020 at 12:19 p.m.

A pandemic is underway, but that won't stop the class of 2020. As high school seniors across Chicagoland prepare to celebrate under the strangest of circumstances, we asked 24 notable...

This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows animated characters, Scooby-Doo, voiced by Frank Welker, right, and Shaggy Rogers, voiced by Will Forte, in a scene from "Scoob!" (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)

Now streaming: New movies available to stream during coronavirus quarantine

May 22, 2020 at 10:17 a.m.

Jane Austen — meet Elisabeth Moss in a fight for her life against something she can't even see. The quarantined citizen's home streaming life just got a little more interesting,...

‘Homecoming’ review: Janelle Monae follows Julia Roberts down memory lane in Season 2

May 21, 2020 at 2:37 p.m.

If all podcast-to-streaming adaptations came off as beautifully as the first season of Amazon's "Homecoming," "Homecoming" season two (premiering Friday) would be a spellbinder instead of what it is: a...

‘Celluloid Skylines’ is an at-home film festival that connects ‘The Hudsucker Proxy’ and ‘Columbus’ and ‘Blade Runner’ this weekend

May 22, 2020 at 10:46 a.m.

Close your eyes and think of "Blade Runner." What do you see? In the middle of a pandemic, what can we learn from the 1982 film's vision of dystopian 2019...

‘Trip to Greece’ review: Delphi gets a couple of new oracles named Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon

May 19, 2020 at 4:25 p.m.

"The Trip to Greece" marks the fourth and probably final excursion together for Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, director Michael Winterbottom, whose paradoxical road comedies — freewheeling, yet carefully mapped —...

‘Lucky Grandma’ review: Taking on the Chinese mob, with a cig and a sneer

May 19, 2020 at 8:41 a.m.

An unusual, agreeable heist picture with just enough feeling behind the style to make it stick, "Lucky Grandma" rests almost wholly on the withering glances of Tsai Chin. Throughout co-writer...

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