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Film, Flopcorn Aug 5, 2020
The worst Chicago movies are still worth a watch

Exploring the depths of Tubi TV for a glimpse at the Second City
- By Dmitry Samarov
- Tags: Flopcorn, Tubi, Tubi TV, tubitv.com, Chicago movies, movies filmed in Chicago, The Fugitive, Thief, The Interrupters, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, The Alley Cat, Meathead Goes Hog Wild, Canvas, Fools, bad movies, Why watch bad movies, What to watch on Tubi, Criterion Channel

Blogs, Bleader Nov 29, 2013
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Sperm blowout, hoop dreams deferred, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Delivery Man, Starbuck, Vince Vaughn, Lenny Cooke, Ben Safdie, Joshua Safdie, Third Ward TX, Joe Swanberg, All the Light in the Sky, Jane Adams, Claire Denis, Bastards, Kasi Lemmons, Black Nativity, Forest Whitaker, Angela Bassett, Langston Hughes, Disney Frozen, Hans Christian Andersen, Homefront movie, Jason Statham, Sylvester Stallone, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressberger, Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes, Gene Siskel Film Center, Joe Dante, The Burbs, University of Chicago Doc Films, Olivier Assayas Carlos, Jean-Luc Godard Contempt, Joseph Losey, The Servant, Claire Denis, The Intruder, W.C. Fields, Million Dollar Legs, Joel McCrea, Girls About Town, Terence Davies, Of Time and the City, Dario Argento, Suspiria, Patio Theater Chicago, The Sound of Music, Music Box Chicago, Block Museum of Art, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis, Logan Center for the Arts, From 2337 West Monroe Street, Fred Hampton, Greg Sestero, The Disaster Artist, The Room movie, Cinema Minima, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deck the Holodeck, Cole's Bar, Chicago movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 4, 2013
Controversy in action, and the rest of this week's movies

A rundown of Chicago film screenings for the week of January 4
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Chicago movies, Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow, Near Dark, Strange Days, Detour, Edgar G. Ulmer, Any Day Now, Music Box Theatre, Django, Sergio Corbucci, Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino, Spaghetti Western, Tal Rosenberg, J.R. Jones, Ben Sachs, The Flat, Arnon Goldfinger, How to Re-establish a Vodka Empire, Gene Siskel Film Center, Stranger Than Fiction, Pice Check, The Rabbi's Cat, Sister, Home, Ursula Meier, William Wellman, The Story of G.I. Joe, Doc Films, Wong Kar-Wai, As Tears Go By, The Walls of Jericho, film noir, John Stahl, Portage Theater, On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan

Blogs, Bleader Dec 28, 2012
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The best, the worst, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, John Magaro, Not Fade Away, The Big Picture Eric Lartigau, The Guilt Trip, Seth Rogen, Barbara Streisand, Not Fade Away, Rolling Stones, The Sopranos, David Chase, Parental Guidance, Billy Crytal, Bette Midler, Promised Land, Gus Van Sant, Matt Damon, John Krasinski, Dave Eggers, David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia, Michael Roemer, Nothing But a Man, Pim de la Parra, One People, F.W. Murnau Sunrise, Anthony Mann, Winchester '73, Chicago movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 21, 2012
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Quentin Tarantino's thousand-bullet clip, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained, Columbia Pictures, Rust and Bone, Jacques Audiard, Prophet movie, Jean Gentil, Barrymore movie, Christopher Plummer, Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away, The Impossible movie, Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Jack Reacher, Tom Cruise, Lee Childs, Les Miserables, Scrooge and Marley, A Christmas Carol, This Is 40, Judd Apatow, Knocked Up, Funny People, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Antonio Gaudi, Gene Siskel Film Center, James Whale, Frankenstein, David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia, Music Box, Stanley Donen, Royal Wedding, Northbrook Public Library, Chicago movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 14, 2012
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Bhopal bests Bilbo, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Ben Sachs, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Public Enemies, Bhopali, Second Unitarian Church, Starlet movie, Beauty Is Embarrassing, Wayne White, Pee-wee's Playhouse, Citadel, Hyde Park on Hudson, Bill Murray, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Laura Linney, The Matchmaker movie, Playing for Keeps, Gerard Butler, Judy Greer, Uma Thurman, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Sundance Institute Art House Project, Music Box Chicago, Black Christmas, A Christmas Story, Bob Clark, Porky's, Quentin Tarantino, Grindhouse, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Kill Bill: Vol. 2, John Hughes, Home Alone, Logan Theater Chicago, Home Alone: Lost in New York, Cinema Borealis, Christian Carion, Joyeux Noel, Beverly Arts Center, Charles Laughton, The Night of the Hunter, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Swing Time, Northbrook Public Library, J.B. Mabe, South Side Projections, Boundary Lines, Marshall Plan, Edward Burns, City Winery, Chicago movies, Video

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 Nov 30, 2012
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Check out Adolf's newest playlist on Spotify, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Wagner & Me, Gene Siskel Film Center, Stephen Fry, Gosford Park, Richard Wagner, Adolf Hitler, Killing Them Softly, Brad Pitt, Andrew Dominik, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte, Andrea Arnold, Red Road, Fish Tank, Fat Kid Rules the World, Jacob Wysocki, Terri movie, A Liar's Autobiograpy, Graham Chapman, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Shirley Clarke, The Connection, University of Chicago Doc Films, Wong Kar-wai, Happy Together, In the Mood for Love, Stephen Chow, Kung Fu Hustle, Jean-Luc Godard, Made in U.S.A., Wim Wenders, Pina Bausch, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Psycho Alfred Hitchcock, Landmark's Century Centre, Joe Dante, Small Soldiers, Richard Fleischer, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Terror in the Aisles 13, Portage Theater Chicago; Phantasm, Dario Argento, The Bird With the Crystal Plumage, Chicago movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 23, 2012
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That's not my finger! and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Vulgaria, Gene Siskel Film Center, Ben Sachs, Pang Ho-Cheung, The Comedy movie, Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, Neil Hamburger, It's Such a Beautiful Day, Don Hertzfeldt, Hitchcock movie, Psycho Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Hopkins, Scarlet Johansson, Janet Leigh, Life of Pi, Ang Lee, Yann Martel, Red Dawn, John Milius, Tales of the Night, Michel Ochelot, Azur & Asmar, Kirikou and the Sorceress, Zu Warriors, Tsui Hark, Zu Warriors of the Magic Mountain, Don Siegel, The Beguiled, Clint Eastwood, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Terrence Malick, Days of Heaven, Logan Theater Chicago, Tsui Hark, Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame, Gene Siskel Film Center, John Huston, The Man Who Would Be King, Northbrook Public Library, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Music Box Chicago, Wes Anderson, Rushmore movie, Douglas Sirk, Written on the Wind, Fred Camper, Madea's Big Scholarly Roundtable, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Peter Neville, Richard Knight Jr., Scrooge and Marley, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Sound Opinions, The Blues Brothers, The Sound of Music Sing-Along Event, Chicago movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 16, 2012
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Nuns, superspies, wild animals, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Skyfall, Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell, Spanking the Monkey, Flirting With Disaster, Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees, The Suitor movie, Gene Siskel Film Center, Pierre Etaix, This Must Be the Place, Sean Penn, Anna Karenina, Joe Wright, Atonement movie, Pride and Prejudice, Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Band of Sisters, Mary Fishman, Bestiaire, Chasing Ice, National Geographic, James Balog, Extreme Ice Survey, Land of Milk and Honey, 1911 Revolution, Jackie Chan, Shaolin movie, Jet Li, The Shaolin Temple, Sushi: The Global Catch, Douglas Sirk, All That Heaven Allows, Fred Camper, Terence Malick, Days of Heaven, Logan Theater Chicago, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Diabolique, University of Chicago Doc Films, Stanley Kubrick, Full Metal Jacket, Facets Cinematheque, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Hayao Miyazaki, Kiki's Delivery Service, Monkey Business, Marx Brothers, The Man on the Flying Trapeze, W.C. Fields, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho Hitchcock, Wes Anderson, Rushmore, Chicago movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 24, 2012
Thank you, Foster Hirsch

What I gained from attending this year's Noir City series at the Music Box Theatre
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Education, Film, Noir City 4, Music Box Theatre, Foster Hirsch, Undertow, William Castle, The Apparition, Sebastian Stan, acting, Chicago movies, Daniel Ferniel, Jim Trainor

Blogs, Bleader May 11, 2012
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Now playing: Dark Shadows, Headhunters, and God Bless America

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, God Bless America movie, Bobcat Goldthwait, Bad Fever movie, Close Quarters movie, Tim Kazurinsky, Susan Messing, Dave Pasquesi, T.J. Jagodowski, Dark Shadows, Tim Burton, Headhunters movie, The Killing Floor movie, The Perfect Family, Kathleen Turner, Sound of My Voice, The World in His Arms, Raoul Walsh, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, All About Eve, Northbrook Public Library, Marcel Carne, Children of Paradise, Music Box theater, Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill Vol. 2, University of Chicago Doc Films, Alan J. Pakula, Klute, Josef von Sternberg, Morocco movie, John Woo, Red Cliff, Jean Renoir, The River, Wes Anderson, Rushmore movie, Terrence Malick, The Thin Red Line, Walter Hill, The Warriors, Logan theater, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Chris Langdon, Chicago Filmmakers, Dyke Delicious, Kartemquin Films, Chicago movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 27, 2011
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, D.W. Griffith, American Revolution, University of Chicago Doc Films, Andrea Gronvall, Biutiful, Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu, Amores Perros, 21 Grams, Babel Innaritu, Javier Bardem, Vivienne Dick, Gene Siskel Film Center, Family Affair, Koolhaas Houselife, Rem Koolhaas, The Mechanic Jason Statham, Charles Bronson, Nora's Will, Queen of the Sun, Taggart Siegel, The Real Dirt on Farmer John, The Rite Anthony Hopkins, The Secret to a Happy Ending, Drive-By Truckers, Strongman, Stanless Steel, A Useful Life, Claude Lanzmann, Shoah, Ernst Lubitsch, Cluny Brown, Block Museum of Art, Norman Lear, Cold Turkey, Rob Christopher, Cine-File, George Cukor, Gaslight, Music Box, Roman Polanski Repulsion, So This Is Paris, Northbook Public Library, Alejandro Jodorowsky, El Topo, Logan Square International Film Series, Chicago movies, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 21, 2010
A Genius by Any Name

Music Box begins a two-week retrospective of films by Charlie Chaplin.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Charles Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux, A King in New York, Music Box, Chaplin The Circus, Chaplin The Kid, The Great Dictator, City Lights, Modern Times, Chaplin The Gold Rush, The Chaplin Revue, A Woman of Paris, Chaplin Limelight, Chicago movies

Blogs, Bleader Jul 15, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Restrepo, Afghanistan war, Korangal Valley, Taliban, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Pipers Alley, The Oath, Osama bin Laden, Howard Hawks, Rio Bravo, Gene Siskel Film Center, GasLand, out Halliburton, Chicago Filmmakers, Inception Christopher Nolan, The Living Wake, Mike O'Connell, Jesse Eisenberg, Adventureland, Facets Cinematheque, Predators, Something Better Somewhere Else, Ron Lazzeretti, The Sorceror's Apprentice, Disney, Jay Baruchel, Nicolas Cage, Wild Grass, Alain Resnais, Last Year at Marienbad, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Music Box, Ernst Lubitsch, Cluny Brown, Doc Films, Richard Linklater, Dazed and Confused, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Clara Bow, Douglas Fairbanks, Robin Hood, Chicago movies, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 6, 2010
It's Not That Good, but If I Use a Photo From It, Will You Please Read My Post?

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Nicole Holofcener, Please Give, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Landmark's Century Centre, Renaissance Place, Good the Bad the Weird, Iron Man 2, Babies movie, Ferlinghetti A City Light, Human Centipede, Letters to Juliet, Amanda Seyfried, Vanessa Redgrave, Kim Ki-duk, 3-Iron, Gene Siskel Film Center, Takedowns and Falls, Vincent A Life in Color, Joseph Losey, Galileo, Doc Films, Anthony Mann, Glenn Miller Story, Northbrook Public Library, Maurice Pialat, Loulou, Akira Kurosawa, Red Beard, Vittorio de Sica, Umberto D, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Word Is Out, Lynn Redgrave, Gods and Monsters, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago movies, movies.

Blogs, Bleader Apr 29, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable films in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Bob Bowdon, Landmarks Century Centre, The Cartel, Bob Bowdon Cartel, Harry Brown, Michael Caine, Square movie, Exit Through the Gift Shop, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Jackie Earle Haley, Robert Englund, Freddy Krueger, The Scientist, Scientist movie, Who Do You Love, Phil Chess, Leonard Chess, Chess Records, Cadillac Records, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, A Canterbury Tale, Bank of America Cinema, Akira Kurosawa, Drunken Angel, Gene Siskel Film Center, Sam Raimi, The Evil Dead, Music Box, The Hidden Fortress, Otto Preminger, Saint Joan, University of Chicago Doc Films, Anthony Mann, Winchester 73, Northbrook Public Library, Chicago movies, movies., Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 1, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Hot Tub Time Machine, Asian American Showcase, Gene Siskel Film Center, Children of Invention, Treeless Mountain, Tze Chun, Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden, Half Nelson, Sugar movie, City Island, Andy Garcia, Clash of the Titans, Head On, Last Song movie, Hannah Montana, Miley Cyrus, Mid-August Lunch, To Die for Tano, University of Chicago Doc Films, Richard Brooks, Blackboard Jungle, Music Box, Clue movie, Northbrook Public Library, Otto Preminger, Leon Uris, Exodus movie, Laurence Olivier, Henry V, Jean Eustache, Mother and the Whore, River of No Return, Robert Mitchum, Marilyn Monroe, John Hughes, Sixteen Candles, Fritz Lang, Woman in the Window, film festivals, Chicago movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 6, 2009
Madam, I'm Adam
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Cliff Doerksen, Max Mayer, Adam movie, Adam Hugh Dancy, Adam Max Mayer, Hugh Dancy, Asperger's syndrome, Rose Byrne, Black Harvest International Film and Video Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Andrea Gronvall, The Seed, Scarred Justice: The Orangeburg Massacre 1968, Orangeburg massacre, The Nine Lives of Marion Barry, Marion Barry, Scott Hamilton Kennedy, The Garden, Scott Hamilotn Kennedy Garden, South Central Los Angeles, Revanche, Rumba, The Answer Man, Jeff Daniels, The Cove, In Sickness and In Health, In My Father's Church, Irene in Time, Henry Jaglom, Julie & Julia, Meryl Streep, Julia Child, Paper Heart, Michael Cera, Brighton Rock, Graham Greene, Busby Berkeley, Footlight Parade, James Cagney, Girl Shy, Harold Lloyd, Silent Summer Film Festival, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin, Pather Panchali, Satyajit Ray, Alfred Hitchcock, Hitchcock Psycho, Grant Park, Rear Window, Northbrook Public Library, movies, Chicago movies, film festivals

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