Filmspotting: 2022-23 Ebert Fellows Celebrate the Holidays | Illinois Public Media

Not all vacation motion pictures are created equal, definitely not within the eyes of the 2022-23 U of I School of Media Roger Ebert Fellows.

On Dec. 21, 2022, the day earlier than the storm rolled throughout the midwest, this yr’s trio of Ebert Fellows met on the studios of Chicago Public Radio and WBEZ-FM on Navy Pier. They labored, on mic and off, with the skilled steerage of “Filmspotting” co-host Adam Kempenaar and longtime “Filmspotting” and WBEZ producer Joe DeCeault, together with fellowship advisor and Chicago Tribune movie critic Michael Phillips. 

The subject: vacation motion pictures they discover themselves re-watching round this time yr; one Fellow, Tania Trejo, stated she’d been watching the Jim Carrey model of “The Grinch” since she was 3. 

From “The Grinch” to “It is a Fantastic Life” to….a house invasion Christmastime thriller known as “Higher Watch Out”: Hear to a couple minutes of recollections, suggestions and extra from Trejo, Lee Beckett and Andrew Stover, the 2022-23 Ebert Fellows. Because of our “Filmspotting” colleagues for the manufacturing and editing–and could the flicks in 2023 convey us some good surprises.

Michael Phillips is the movie critic of the Chicago Tribune and the advisor-mentor of the U of I School of Media Roger Ebert Fellowship.