Chicago’s Reeling fest: The second-oldest LGBTQ+ film showcase in America looks to a new era By Michael Phillips March 12, 2024 at 11:57 a.m. In April 1981, a year before "Making Love" and "Personal Best" ventured, cautiously, into the...
‘A Haunting in Venice’ review: Hercule Poirot edges into horror territory in latest Agatha Christie adaptation By Michael Phillips September 14, 2023 at 5:00 a.m. Director, star and mustache-lugger Kenneth Branagh and screenwriter Michael Green return for their third Agatha...
Review: ‘The Changeling’ on Apple TV+ is a wondrous parenthood saga with witches, curses and LaKeith Stanfield By Michael Phillips September 9, 2023 at 5:30 a.m. At its best — the first two-thirds cast enough of a spell to render the...
‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3’ review: Get them to the Greek Islands By Michael Phillips September 7, 2023 at 6:00 p.m. It has been 32 years since a Greek-Canadian native of Winnipeg named Nia Vardalos worked...
‘Sitting in Bars with Cake’ review: A wry and touching story of friendship — and a year’s supply of baked goods By Michael Phillips September 7, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. It's right there in the trailer: Cake, and cancer. Less obvious in the same trailer...
‘The Killer,’ Michael Shannon’s directorial debut ‘Eric LaRue,’ other movies announced for Chicago Int’l Film Fest By Michael Phillips September 6, 2023 at 9:38 a.m. It's not all death and dying, in various keys of seriousness. But the latest batch...
Taylor Swift Eras Tour concert film coming to movie theaters in October By Associated Press August 31, 2023 at 12:53 p.m. Taylor Swift's Eras Tour is coming to movie theaters. Swift announced Thursday that the concert film "Taylor Swift...
‘The Good Mother’ review: The real mystery? Hilary Swank’s bad luck with screenplays By Michael Phillips August 31, 2023 at 12:02 p.m. We've seen this regularly at the start of crime dramas: The establishing shot of a...
‘Contra/Banned’ at the Siskel Center: Sex, religion, Jayne Mansfield and other movie troublemakers By Michael Phillips March 12, 2024 at 11:57 a.m. The history of film tells a parallel history of censorship, protest and moral guardians, such...
Column: ‘We Grown Now,’ about a Cabrini-Green boyhood friendship, will open the Chicago International Film Fest. A new Chicago classic? By Michael Phillips August 30, 2023 at 10:14 a.m. The U.S. premiere of writer-director Minhal Baig's "We Grown Now" — a gentle, powerful coming-of-age...