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Blogs, Bleader Jun 5, 2015
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Cameron Crowe goes Hawaiian, plus the rest of this week's new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Gwynedd Stuart, Aloha Cameron Crowe, Say Anything, Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous, Entourage movie, Aloft movie, Claudia Llosa, The Milk of Sorrow, Jennifer Connelly, Cillian Murphy, Hard to Be a God, The Icing, Jan Hrebejk, Up and Down, Love & Mercy, Paul Dano, Brian Wilson, John Cusack, The Nightmare, Rodney Ascher, Room 237, Spy Melissa McCarthy, Paul Feig, Bridesmaids, Tonnerre, A Wolf at the Door, Orson Welles, Citizen Kane, Music Box Chicago, Tsai Ming-liang, Rebels of the Neon God, Gene Siskel Film Center, James Cameron, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Frank Tashlin, Who’s Minding the Store?, Jerry Lewis, University of Chicago Doc Films, Satyajit Ray, Apu Trilogy, Pather Panchali, Aparajito, The World of Apu, Group 312 Films 2014 Annual Report, Chicago Filmmakers, Columbia College Chicago, Retour de Flamme, Serge Bromberg, The Russian Woodpecker, Docs at the Box, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 22, 2014
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Young love, old bones, 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, Dinosaur 13, Sue dinosaur, Field Museum of Natural History, Ben Sachs, Eric Rohmer, A Summer's Tale, Land Ho!, Paul Eenhoorn, This Is Martin Bonner, Aaron Katz, Cold Weather, Martha Stephens, Are You Here, Owen Wilson, Zach Galifianakis, Mad Men, Matthew Weiner, The Forgotten Kingdom, From Above, If I Stay, Chloe Grace Moretz, Moebius, Kim Ki-duk, The One I Love, Mark Duplass, Elisabeth Moss, Waltzes From Vienna, Alfred Hitchcock, Johann Strass II, When the Game Stands Tall, Jim Caviezel, Michael Chiklis, Laura Dern, James Cameron, Avatar, Millennium Park, Howard Hawk, The Dawn Patrol, University of Chicago Doc Films, Frank Borzage, History Is Made at Night, David Lynch, Mulholland Drive, Music Box, Mel Brooks, The Producers, Bill Duke, A Rage in Harlem, Gene Siskel Film Center, Under Capricorn, Terror in the Aisles, Night of the Demons, Davis Theater Chicago, Linnea Quigley, Nightingale Chicago, Dearest Chicago Please Love Me Yours Truly Detroit, Basement Media Fest: Lo-Def Lo-Tech Lo-Fi, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 4, 2014
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The latest from Steve James, and the rest of this week's movies

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between July 4 and 10
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, 42nd Street, Aliens, James Cameron, An American Werewolf in London, John Landis, Doc Films, Begin Again, John Carney, Deliver Us From Evil, Earth to Echo, Mac and Me, Steve James, Life Itself, Elena, Gene Siskel Film Center, The Front Page, Lewis Milestone, Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia, A Hard Day's Night, John Hubley, Cartoons by John Hubley, Snowpiercer, Bong Joon-Ho, Last Holiday, The Lavender Hill Mob, Alec Guinness, Marketa Lazarova, Frantisek Vlacil, Nothing Bad Can Happen, Tammy, Melissa McCarthy, Transformers: Age of Extinction, Michael Bay, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 15, 2013
Weekly Top Five: The best of Joe Dante

Weekly Top Five: Joe Dante
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Home Alone, A Christmas Story, Nitecap Coffee Bar, Music Box, Logan, Joe Dante, Matinee, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, The Howling, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, James Cameron, Roger Corman, The 'Burbs, Rear Window, Gremlins, Steven Spielberg

Blogs, Bleader Jun 7, 2013
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The education of an illusionist, 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, Ricky Jay, Paul Thomas Anderson, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, David Mamet, House of Games, Things Change, Redbelt, Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay, Becoming Traviata, Aix-en-Provence Festival, Born in Chicago, Chicano Love Is Forever, The East movie, In the Shadow, The Internship movie, Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Google, The Kings of Summer, The Tragedy of Man, Violet & Daisy, Saoirse Ronan, Alexis Bledel, James Gandolfini, Billy Wilder, Ace in the Hole, Patio Theater Chicago, Agnes Varda, The Gleaners and I, University of Chicago Doc Films, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather, Logan Theater Chicago, Larry Clark, Passing Through, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, James Cameron, The Terminator, Gene Siskel FIlm Center, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Top Hat, Music Box, Alejandro Jodorowsky, El Topo, Music Box Chicago, movies, Video

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review May 26, 2011
A lynching deconstructed, in Charles Smith's The Gospel According to James
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, The Gospel According to James, Thomas Shipp, Abram Smith, Claude Deeter, James Cameron, Victory Gardens Theater, Charles Smith, Mary Ball, Anthony Peeples

Blogs, Bleader Feb 4, 2011
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Now Playing: Sanctum

Andrea Gronvall reviews the new underwater adventure from producer James Cameron.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Andrea Gronvall, James Cameron, Richard Roxburgh, Ioan Gruffudd, Papua, New Guinea, Rhys Wakefield, Avatar, action movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 7, 2009
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Sorry, Dave

"2001: A Space Odyssey" co-star Gary Lockwood appears at two Music Box screenings this weekend, one as part of Sci-Fi Spectacular 3.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Stanley Kubrick, aliens, Laurie's Planet of Sound, Music Box Theatre, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Gary Lockwood, Keir Dullea, Shawshank Redemption, Incredible Shrinking Man, James Cameron, David Cronenberg, The Fly, War of the Worlds, Rusty Nails, Sci-Fi Spectacular, Video

Film, Movie Review Feb 17, 2005
Here Be Monsters

James Cameron's latest creatures can outfreak any alien.
- By Brian Thomas
- Tags: Movie Review, Aliens of the Deep, James Cameron, Steven Quale

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Cameron Crowe goes Hawaiian, plus the rest of this week's new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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Young love, old bones, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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The latest from Steve James, and the rest of this week's movies

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between July 4 and 10

Weekly Top Five: The best of Joe Dante

Weekly Top Five: Joe Dante

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The education of an illusionist, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

A lynching deconstructed, in Charles Smith's The Gospel According to James

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Now Playing: Sanctum

Andrea Gronvall reviews the new underwater adventure from producer James Cameron.

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Sorry, Dave

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James Cameron's latest creatures can outfreak any alien.

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Weekly Top Five: Joe Dante

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Andrea Gronvall reviews the new underwater adventure from producer James Cameron.

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James Cameron's latest creatures can outfreak any alien.

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