Fall movie preview 2023: Our 10 titles from a Hollywood season subject to change By Michael Phillips August 30, 2023 at 5:45 a.m. In the annals of fall movie previews, never has the phrase "dates subject to change"...
Review: Denzel returns for more carnage, Italian style, in ‘The Equalizer 3’ By Katie Walsh September 1, 2023 at 7:53 a.m. The blood flows like wine in "The Equalizer 3," as dark as Chianti, seeping into...
Theaters eye ways to make movies accessible to more audiences with screenings that are sensory, dementia friendly By Bill Jones August 28, 2023 at 2:42 p.m. Movies can transport viewers to different times and places. They can offer escapist fantasy or...
Review: ‘Gran Turismo’ a shiny ride that’s lacking under the hood By Katie Walsh August 25, 2023 at 5:15 a.m. The visual exterior of Neill Blomkamp's racing simulator video game adaptation "Gran Turismo" mimics that...
What is film noir? ‘Suffering with style’ — Chicago’s 13th annual Noir City fest is now at the Music Box By Michael Phillips August 25, 2023 at 5:00 a.m. Lucky number 13. Talk about a stroke of film noir fate! The 2023 edition of...
Review: ‘Perpetrator’ is a hypnotic and bloody career high for Chicago filmmaker Jennifer Reeder By Michael Phillips August 24, 2023 at 12:15 p.m. "Perpetrator," Chicago-based filmmaker Jennifer Reeder's fifth and most commanding and elegantly bloody feature to date,...
‘Bottoms’ review: In a queer ‘Fight Club’ with a side of ‘Heathers,’ the jokes and punches fly By Michael Phillips August 23, 2023 at 11:12 a.m. The wide, bright, satiric world of "Bottoms," director and co-writer Emma Seligman's second feature, expands...
‘The Unknown Country’ review: At the Siskel Film Center, a beautiful debut film starring Lily Gladstone By Michael Phillips August 22, 2023 at 3:10 p.m. The sign above the highway-located Conoco gas station says it plainly: WELCOME TO MID-AMERICA. Continuing...
Classic Cinemas founder Willis Johnson is dead at 86. His dedication saved downtown theaters in communities across Chicagoland. By Michael Phillips March 12, 2024 at 11:59 a.m. When Willis Johnson got into the movie theater business, "old downtown theaters were out of...
‘Strays’ review: Dogs go hunting for laughs on comedy’s mean streets, with Will Ferrell and Jamie Foxx By Michael Phillips August 17, 2023 at 12:59 p.m. You know how raunchy comedies go. Hit and miss. One person's laff riot is another...