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Blogs, Bleader Sep 1, 2015
A second printing for Reader film critic J.R. Jones's book on Robert Ryan

Having nearly sold out, The Lives of Robert Ryan gets a second pressing.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Books, Media, News, Arts, Film, Robert Ryan, The Lives of Robert Ryan, J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader, Cheyney Ryan, Lisa Ryan, Wesleyan University Press, Music Box Theatre, Noir City: Chicago, The Racket, Stephanie Elliott, Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, Anthology Film Archives, Turner Classic Movies, New York Times, Associated Press, Douglass K. Daniel, Wall Street Journal, Peter Tonguette, Film Comment, Sight & Sound, Library Journal

Film, Movie Review May 20, 2015
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Mad Max: A world unto himself

The new Fury Road places the postapocalyptic hero against an even more richly imagined landscape.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Mad Max: Fury Road, George Miller, Charlize Theron, Tom Hardy, Mel Gibson, Mad Max, Chicago Tribune, Michael Phillips, The Road Warrior, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Happy Feet, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Brendan McCarthy, Nick Lathouris, Jacques Tati, Playtime, Recommended, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 16, 2014
Llewyn Davis, Outside (the Oscars)

Oscar stiffs the Coen brothers' comedy about Greenwich Village folkies; plus a rundown of the rest of the nominees.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Gene Siskel Film Center, Betsy Steinberg, Chicago Film Office, Alison Cuddy, WBEZ, Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, Steve Prokopy, Ain't It Cool News, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, RogerEbert.com, Joel Ethan Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis, Saving Mr. Banks, Walt Disney Pictures, P.L. Travers, The Act of Killing, Dirty Wars, The Square, The Missing Picture, The Square movie, The Sqaure documentary, American Hustle, August: Osage County, Dallas Buyers Club, Frozen, Gravity, The Great Beauty, Her, Nebraska, Philomena, 12 Years a Slave, The Wolf of Wall Street, 2014 Academy Awards, 2014 Oscars, movies

Blogs, Bleader Apr 11, 2013
Reader's Agenda Thu 4/11: Chicago Golden Gloves, Messing With a Friend, and Cinema Slapdown: Flight

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, April 11, 2013
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Chicago Golden Gloves, Joe Louis, Sonny Liston, Cassius Clay, Michael Flatley, Lord of the Dance, Cicero Stadium, Messing With a Friend, Susan Messing, Ryan Hubbard, Mark "Howard" Sutton, Bassprov, Donny Weaver, Columbia College's Film Row Cinema, Columbia College, Ron Falzone, Robert Zemeckis, Flight, Chicago Tribune, Michael Phillips, United Airlines First Officer Dan Swanson, Cinema Slapdown

Blogs, Bleader Jan 10, 2013
Reader's Agenda Thu 1/10: Oscar debates, Mykki Blanco, and Matt Braugner

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, January 10, 2013
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Gene Siskel Film Center, Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, Ben Kenigsberg, Time Out Chicago, Oscars, Mykki Blanco, Beauty Bar, Supreme Cuts, Teen Witch, Fresh off his recent Comedy Central special Shovel Fighter, former Chicago stand-up Matt Braugner (MADtv, The Late Show with David Letterman) performs at Up Comedy Club with support from local comic favorites, Ever Mainard and Adam Burke.

Blogs, Bleader Dec 7, 2012
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The wrong man times five, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Chicago International Film Festival, The Central Park Five, Burn: One Year on the Front Lines of the Battle to Save Detroit, Generation P, Starlet movie, Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present, New Jerusalem, Rick Alverson, The Comedy movie, Oliver Twist, Jackie Coogan, Lon Chaney, Step Up to the Plate, Michel Bras, Sebastien Bras, We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists, Joseph von Sternberg, Anatahan, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Eric von Stroheim, Blind Husbands, Gene Siskel Film Center, Busby Berkeley, The Gang's All Here, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Joe Dante, Gremlins, Logan Theater Chicago, Alfred Hitchcock, Marnie Hitchcock, Facets Cinematheque, Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, Gretchen Helfrich, WBEZ, Hayao Miyazaki, Spirited Away, University of Chicago Doc Films, Chicago movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 24, 2011
Hey, These Things Are Heavy

Reader film critic J.R. Jones discusses the 2011 Oscar nominees in a free panel discussion at Gene Siskel Film Center.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Free Shit, Swag, Gene Siskel Film Center, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Oscars, Rich Moskal, Chicago Film Office, Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, Janet Davies, WLS-TV, Steve Prokopy, Ain't It Cool News, Ben Kenigsberg, Time Out Chicago, J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader, movies

Blogs, Bleader Dec 17, 2010
The Last Picture Show

The Classic Film Series concludes a 38-year Chicago run Saturday night at Bank of America Cinema.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Classic Film Series, Chuck Schaden, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Laurel and Hardy, Babes in Toyland, LaSalle Bank, Bank of America, Scott Marks, Emulsion Compulsion, Matthew Hoffman, Park Ridge Public Library, Michael Phillips, Julian Antos, Becca Hall, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage theater, Dennis Wolkowicz, Silent Film Society of Chicago, Douglas Sirk, Written on the Wind, film series, movies

Blogs, Bleader Aug 17, 2010
Programmer Says Bank of America Cinema Closing

Bank official calls Bank of America's Cinema's closure announcement "premature."
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Bank of America, Bank of America Cinema, Michael Phillips, Time Out Chicago, Hank Sartin, Diane Wagner, Samuel Fuller, Baron of Arizon

Blogs, Bleader Aug 4, 2010
Pavement Tour Diary: Pitchfork

Jeremy comes to the Pitchfork Music Festival with Pavement and reminisces about Pitchforks past. There's some food and coffee in there too.
- By Jeremy Lemos
- Tags: Music, Pavement Tour Diary, Pavement, Big Star, Graham Elliot, Broken Social Scene, Intelligentsia coffee, Michael Phillips, Jarvis Cocker, free jazz, Chicago, Spoon, Johalla Projects, Art of Touring, White/Light, good times, Lula Cafe, Major Lazer, LCD Soundsystem, road cases for disco balls, Shure Microphones, Gossip Wolf, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, iced coffee, Stephen Morrissey, Kingsley Amis, Rockin' Rian Murphy, the High Confessions, Steve Shelley, Sanford Parker, Chris Connelly, Relapse Records, Wormhole Cafe, Publican, Ipsento Cafe, Heather Shouse, Irazu, Cafe Mustache

Blogs, Bleader Jun 28, 2010
Intelligentsia Barista Wins 2010 World Barista Championship

Intelligentsia's Michael Phillips won the World Barista Championship in London last Friday.
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Michael Phillips, Intelligentsia, World Barista Championship

Blogs, Bleader Sep 3, 2009
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This movie sucks, heh-heh-heh
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, A.O. Scott, New York Times, At the Movies, ABC, Disney, Mike Judge, Mike Judge Extract, Beavis and Butt-Head, film critics, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 20, 2009
The third best barista in the world

Intelligenstia's Mike Phillips, the national barista champ, places at the worlds.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink, Food Chain, Intelligentsia, Michael Phillips, blogsherpa, Mike Phillips, World Barista Championships

Blogs, Bleader Dec 9, 2008
Alphabet killer

Bank of America announces its new schedule, with only one B movie screening.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Movies, Michael Phillips, LaSalle Bank Cinema, Bank of America Cinema, revival houses

Blogs, Bleader Jul 3, 2008
New schedule drops at Classic Film Series

The Classic Film Series is alive and well and living at Bank of America.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Michael Phillips, Classic Film Series, Lasalle Bank, Mike King, classic films

Blogs, Bleader Sep 21, 2007
Too close? Maybe, maybe not.

Is the American public too close to the war in Iraq, as a Trib teaser suggests? Or is it the opposite?
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: News, News Bites, Chicago Tribune, Michael Phillips, war movies, In the Valley of Elah

News & Politics, Media Aug 17, 2006
Jay the Joke Isn't Funny Anymore; The Blame Game; News Bites

After attracting some vicious posts only marginally about Mariotti, the site gets a Wikipedia entry that's sure to incite a whole new flame war.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, Hot Type, Georgie Anne Geyer, Jay the Joke, Hillary Clinton, Donald Rumsfeld, Robert Thomas, David Peterson, Mary Ann McMorrow, Paul Krugman, Ozzie Guillen, Donald O'Brien, Wikipedia, Thomas Friedman, Kane County Chronicle, Chicago Sun-Times, Jay Mariotti, Thomas v. Page, Matt Lynch, Pat Dahl, Bill Page, Meg Gorecki, Joe Lieberman, Michael Phillips, Mel Gibson, Iraq, neocons, New York Times, James Martin, Chicago Tribune

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Having nearly sold out, The Lives of Robert Ryan gets a second pressing.

The new Fury Road places the postapocalyptic hero against an even more richly imagined landscape.

Oscar stiffs the Coen brothers' comedy about Greenwich Village folkies; plus a rundown of the rest of the nominees.

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, April 11, 2013

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, January 10, 2013

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Reader film critic J.R. Jones discusses the 2011 Oscar nominees in a free panel discussion at Gene Siskel Film Center.

The Classic Film Series concludes a 38-year Chicago run Saturday night at Bank of America Cinema.

Bank official calls Bank of America's Cinema's closure announcement "premature."

Jeremy comes to the Pitchfork Music Festival with Pavement and reminisces about Pitchforks past. There's some food and coffee in there too.

Intelligentsia's Michael Phillips won the World Barista Championship in London last Friday.

Intelligenstia's Mike Phillips, the national barista champ, places at the worlds.

Bank of America announces its new schedule, with only one B movie screening.

The Classic Film Series is alive and well and living at Bank of America.

Is the American public too close to the war in Iraq, as a Trib teaser suggests? Or is it the opposite?

After attracting some vicious posts only marginally about Mariotti, the site gets a Wikipedia entry that's sure to incite a whole new flame war.

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