How an Oscar-winning filmmaker helped a small-town art theater in Ohio land a big grant By Associated Press July 6, 2024 at 8:45 a.m. When the Little Art Theatre set out to land a $100,000 grant to fund a...
‘MaXXXine’ review: A porn star goes Hollywood as Ti West’s horror trilogy ends with a thud By Michael Phillips July 4, 2024 at 3:42 p.m. After escaping a Texas porn star massacre, Mia Goth's plucky rising star Maxine can't save...
Column: With the ICON closed, Chicago’s South Loop runs its last picture show, for now By Michael Phillips July 5, 2024 at 6:25 a.m. With the closing of the multiplex on Roosevelt Road, the Kerasotes family's 115-year run in...
Review: ‘Green Border’ is a riveting account of a refugee crisis and human conscience By Michael Phillips July 3, 2024 at 1:54 p.m. In times of war, and times of refugees risking their lives for lives to call...
Redbox owner Chicken Soup for the Soul files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection By Wyatte Grantham-Philips July 1, 2024 at 8:47 p.m. Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, the parent of DVD rental operator Redbox, has filed...
‘A Quiet Place’ prequel box office speaks volumes as Costner’s Western gets a bumpy start By Associated Press June 30, 2024 at 3:42 p.m. A Quiet Place: Day One is making noise at the box office. The prequel earned...
‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ review: Lupita Nyong’o can’t save the world, but she saves the movie By Michael Phillips June 27, 2024 at 12:32 p.m. This third "Quiet Place" is a prequel set in New York City, with the same...
Bill Cobbs, the prolific and sage character actor, dies at 90 By Jake Coyle June 26, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. Bill Cobbs, the veteran character actor who became a ubiquitous and sage screen presence as...
‘Kinds of Kindness’ review: Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons plunge into an empty satirical pool By Michael Phillips June 26, 2024 at 1:03 p.m. Set up as a trio of satirical fables, this is director Yorgos Lanthimos' victory lap...
‘Janet Planet’ review: Story of a mother and daughter is drawn achingly close to life By Michael Phillips July 7, 2024 at 10:06 a.m. The problem with most screenplays, line-to-line and character-to-character, is a problem of differentiation. Everybody sounds...