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Blogs, Bleader Feb 6, 2018
The new horror film Winchester is a missed opportunity

The Spierig brothers' latest is a major disappointment after Predestination
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Paranormal, Winchester, Peter Spierig, Michael Spierig, Helen Mirren, Jason Clarke, Curse of the Demon, Night of the Demon, Jacques Tourneur, Sarah Winchester

Film, Fall Preview Sep 9, 2015
Michael Powell's last film, Age of Consent, features a young Helen Mirren
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Fall Arts, Fall Preview 2015, Age of Consent, Michael Powell, James Mason, Helen Mirren

Blogs, Bleader Apr 14, 2015
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Sentimental treatments of modern art and Judaism invade movie theaters

Considering the thematic overlap of a couple recent "feel-good" releases
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Piety, Arts, Film, Woman in Gold, The Longest Ride, George Tillman Jr., Alan Alda, Helen Mirren, Nicholas Sparks, modern art, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 3, 2015
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The year's best movie (so far), plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, David Cronenberg, Maps to the Stars, White God, European Union Film Festival, Asian American Showcase, Man From Reno, Dave Boyle, Surrogate Valentine, Daylight Savings, Ben Sachs, Charlie Minn, Es El Chapo?, Human Capital, Law & Order, Frederick Wiseman, Ned Rifle, Hal Hartley, Nelson Algren: The End Is Nothing the Road Is All, Chicago: City on the Make, The Salt of the Earth, Wim Wenders, Sebastiao Salgados, Woman in Gold, Helen Mirren, Gustav Klimt, Frank Tashlin, Artists and Models, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Dust in the Wind, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel, Leviathan, Orson Welles, The Magnificent Ambersons, Victor Fleming, The Wizard of Oz, Dan Rybicky, Aaron Wickenden, Kartemquin Films, Almost There, Daniel Sousa, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 8, 2014
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Show us your Ibsen, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, J.R. Jones, Jonathan Demme, Rachel Getting Married, A Master Builder, Wallace Shawn, Henrik Ibsen, Andre Gregory, Philadelphia movie, The Silence of the Lambs, Lisa Joyce, DePaul University, Gene Siskel Film Center, Ben Sachs, One Day Pina Asked, Pina Bausch, Chantal Akerman, Jeanne Dielman 23 Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles, Calvary movie, Calvary Brendan Gleeson, Unsound Darius Britt, Black Harvest Film Festival, Alive Inside, The 4th Meeting, Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel Studios, The Hundred-Foot Journey, Helen Mirren, Into the Storm, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Violette Emmanuelle Devos, Violette Leduc, What If, Zoe Kazan, Daniel Radcliffe, George Lucas, American Graffiti, Millennium Park, Vittorio de Sica, The Bicycle Thief, Tivoli Downers Grove, After Hours Film Society, Alfred Hitchcock Blackmail, John Schlesinger, Midnight Cowboy, Logan Theater Chicago, Rouben Mamoulian, Silk Stockings, Music Box, David Wain, Wet Hot American Summer, University of Chicago Doc Films, Dennis Scott, Hoot Gibson, King of the Rodeo, Second Saturday Silent Cinema, Hideout Chicago, Jessica Hopper, Chicago Film Archives, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 3, 2013
Remembering Dennis Potter's Blue Remembered Hills

Revisiting the 1979 BBC teleplay in light of I Declare War, the recent Canadian feature playing at Facets Multimedia
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Television, Film, Small Screen, Blue Remembered Hills, Dennis Potter, I Declare War, Jason Lapeyre, Helen Mirren, BBC, teleplay, Last Year at Marienbad, The Purge, A.E. Housman, childhood, nostalgia, Chicago Public Library, Facets Multimedia

Film, Movie Review Aug 21, 2013
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The Butler: The anti-Gump

In Lee Daniels's film, painful social realities once again collide with delirious fantasy.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Macy Gray, Shadowboxer, Precious, Vittorio De Sica, Two Women, The Paperboy, Vivienne Westwood, Cuba Gooding Jr., Helen Mirren, Section 8, Nicole Kidman, John Cusack, The Butler, Eugene Allen, Forest Whitaker, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, David Oyelowo, Freedom Bus, Martin Luther King, Jr., Black Panthers, Oakland, Forrest Gump, Oprah Winfrey, Liev Schreiber, Alan Rickman, Robin Williams, Steven Boone, Terrence Howard, Elijah Kelley, Barack Obama, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 20, 2012
A decade under the influence of terrible movies

The ten biggest turkeys I've reviewed
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Gross, This Will Kill You, Turkey Week, Film, Variations on a Theme, George Carlin, Doctor Benny, Nolan H. Lebovitz, Timothy Dowling, Josh Holloway, Jennifer Jostyn, Mark Binder, Eight Crazy Nights, Punch-Drunk Love, Adam Sandler, The Hills Have Eyes, Wes Craven, Alexandre Aja, High Tension, Rondo Hatton, Operation Iraqi Freedom, I Hate Valentine's Day, Nia Vardalos, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, John Corbett, Mike Starr, Stephen Guarino, Amir Arison, Rachel Dratch, Judah Friedlander, Jason Mantzoukas, Land of the Lost, Will Ferrell, Universal Pictures, Brad Silberling, Anna Friel, Danny McBride, Sid and Marty Krofft, H.R. Pufnstuff, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, The Life of David Gale, Alan Parker, Mississippi Burning, Kevin Spacey, Laura Linney, Jimmy Stewart, Call Northside 777, Kate Winslet, Love Ranch, Joe Pesci, Robert De Niro, The Good Shepherd, Helen Mirren, Taylor Hackford, Ray movie, Boogie Nights, Rocky movie, Play the Game, Paul Campbell, Andy Griffith, Marla Sokoloff, Northwestern University, Marc Fienberg, SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2, Bob Clark, Porky’s, Baby Geniuses, Look Who's Talking, Spy Kids, Jon Voight, Untraceable movie, Diane Lane, Rube Goldberg, Sony Pictures Entertainment, The Adventures of Pluto Nash, The Back-up Plan, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, Boat Trip, Broken Bridges, Darkness Falls, Detention, Feardotcom, How Much Do You Love Me?, Killer Elite, Mercy, Miss March, New Year's Eve, Paper Heart, Rambo, The Real Cancun, Spun, The Trip, Young @ Heart, Your Highness, bad movies, turkeys

Blogs, Bleader Oct 17, 2010
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Julie Taymor's "Tempest"

Helen Mirren conjures Julie Taymor's "Tempest" Monday at the Chicago International Film Festival.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Alfred Molina, Djimon Hounsou, Ben Whishaw, David Stathairn, Russell Brand, Helen Mirren, Felicity Jones, Julia Taymor, Tempest, Shakespeare, Chicago, International, Film Festival, River East, AMC, Oscar, Frida, Titus, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 14, 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, Chicago International Film Festival, Carancho, Ricardo Darin, The Secret in Their Eyes, Fair Game, Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Joseph Wilson, Valerie Plame, Hereafter, Clint Eastwood; Housemaid Im Sang-soo, The President's Last Bang, The Minutemen, Trust Clive Owen, Trust Catherine Keener, Winnebago Man, Ben Steinbauer, Jack Rebney, Gene Siskel Film Center, Charles Ferguson, No End in Sight, Last Train Home, My Soul to Take, Wes Craven, Nowhere Boy, John Lennon, RED, Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Sailor's Luck, Raoul Walsh, Skirt Day, Isabelle Adjani, Tehran Tehran, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Francis Ford Coppola, Grand Guignol, Century 12 and CineArts 6, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Portage theater, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Stanley Kubrick, The Lady From Shanghai, Orson Welles, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Robert Altman, The Trial, Franz Kafka, Block Museum of Art, White Heat, James Cagney, film festivals, movies., Video

Film, Movie Review Dec 17, 2009
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When Princesses Grow Up

The Young Victoria puts a reality check on the Disney fantasy.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, The Young Victoria, Jean-Marc Vallee, Julian Fellowes, Queen Victoria, The Princess Diaries, Anne Hathaway, Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth, Helen Mirren, The Queen, The Duchess, Keira Knightley, Emily Blunt, Gosford Park, Sir John Conroy, Mark Strong, Rupert Friend, Miranda Richardson, Landmark's Century Centre, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 5, 2009
Helen Mirren's Phedre at Steppenwolf

The National Theatre's production of Racine's tragedy comes to Chicago--on screen.
- By Albert Williams
- Tags: Onstage, Performing Arts, Arts, Helen Mirren, Steppenwolf Theatre, The History Boys, National Theatre, Phedre

Blogs, Bleader Jan 16, 2007
Right performer, wrong film

Meryl Streep wins another Golden Globe--but not for the role she should have.
- By Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, The Queen, A Prairie Home Companion, Golden Globe Awards, The Devil Wears Prada, Meryl Streep, Helen Mirren

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The new horror film Winchester is a missed opportunity

The Spierig brothers' latest is a major disappointment after Predestination

Michael Powell's last film, Age of Consent, features a young Helen Mirren

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Sentimental treatments of modern art and Judaism invade movie theaters

Considering the thematic overlap of a couple recent "feel-good" releases

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The year's best movie (so far), plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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Show us your Ibsen, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Remembering Dennis Potter's Blue Remembered Hills

Revisiting the 1979 BBC teleplay in light of I Declare War, the recent Canadian feature playing at Facets Multimedia

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The Butler: The anti-Gump

In Lee Daniels's film, painful social realities once again collide with delirious fantasy.

A decade under the influence of terrible movies

The ten biggest turkeys I've reviewed

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Julie Taymor's "Tempest"

Helen Mirren conjures Julie Taymor's "Tempest" Monday at the Chicago International Film Festival.

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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.

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When Princesses Grow Up

The Young Victoria puts a reality check on the Disney fantasy.

Helen Mirren's Phedre at Steppenwolf

The National Theatre's production of Racine's tragedy comes to Chicago--on screen.

Right performer, wrong film

Meryl Streep wins another Golden Globe--but not for the role she should have.

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The Spierig brothers' latest is a major disappointment after Predestination

Considering the thematic overlap of a couple recent "feel-good" releases

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Revisiting the 1979 BBC teleplay in light of I Declare War, the recent Canadian feature playing at Facets Multimedia

In Lee Daniels's film, painful social realities once again collide with delirious fantasy.

The ten biggest turkeys I've reviewed

Helen Mirren conjures Julie Taymor's "Tempest" Monday at the Chicago International Film Festival.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.

The Young Victoria puts a reality check on the Disney fantasy.

The National Theatre's production of Racine's tragedy comes to Chicago--on screen.

Meryl Streep wins another Golden Globe--but not for the role she should have.

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