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Blogs, Bleader Aug 28, 2015
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Brando is back, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Marlon Brando, Listen to Me Marlon, Zac Efron, We Are Your Friends, Christmas Wedding Baby, College Week, Black Harvest Film Festival, An Eye for Beauty, Denys Arcand, Grandma movie, Lily Tomlin, Learning to Drive, Patricia Clarkson, Ben Kingsley, Losing Ground, Kathleen Collins, No Escape, Pierce Brosnan, Owen Wilson, She's Funny That Way, Peter Bogdanovich, Imogen Poots, Jennifer Aniston, We Come As Friends, Hubert Sauper, Robert Siodmak, Criss Cross, Carl Reiner, The Jerk, Steve Martin, Stanley Kubrick, The Killing, Tim Burton, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Tomm Moore, Song of the Sea, Theory of Obscurity: A Film About the Residents, The Torrent, Greta Garbo, Silent Summer Film Festival, Noir City: Chicago, Alan K. Rode, Film Noir Foundation, The Racket, Robert Ryan, The Lives of Robert Ryan, The Chase, Hangover Square, Ride the Pink Horse, House of Bamboo, Witness to Murder, Criss Cross, The Underworld Story, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 30, 2015
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Jennifer Aniston takes the Cake, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Jennifer Aniston, Cake movie, Cake Jennifer Aniston, River East 21, Ben Sachs, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Drew Hunt, Oscar Nominated Short Films 2015: Live Action, Mommy Xavier Dolan, Amira & Sam, Freaks and Geeks, Martin Starr, Black or White, Kevin Costner, Octavia Spencer, Black Sea, Jude Law, The Bubble, Emptying the Skies, Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, Giuseppe Makes a Movie, Giuseppe Andrews, Independence Day, Still Life, Eddie Marsan, Happy-Go-Lucky, Jean-Luc Godard, Les Carabiniers, Masculine Feminine, Gene Siskel Film Center, Jack Arnold, Creature From the Black Lagoon, Wim Wenders, Pina movie, Maya Deren, University of Chicago Doc Films, Frank Capra, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Music Box, Alfred Hitchcock, Notorious movie, Jacques Rivette, The Nun, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Remembering Harold Washington, The Day After Groundhog Day, Harold Ramis, film festivals, movies, Video

Film, Movie Review Jan 28, 2015
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Jennifer Aniston finds her inner ugly in Cake

The veteran comic actress takes the dramatic plunge as a woman incapacitated by pain.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Cake, drama, Jennifer Aniston, Daniel Barnz I Frances, Monster, The Hours, Jessica Lange, Nicole Kidman, Charlize Theron, Recommended

Film, Movie Review Jan 22, 2015
In The Humbling, Al Pacino stars as a Shakespearean actor who can't get it up

Barry Levinson directs the screen adaptation of Philip Roth's novel.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Barry Levinson, The Humbling, Are You Here, Mad Men, Matthew Weiner, Life of Crime, Elmore Leonard, Owen Wilson, Zach Galifianakis, Amy Poehler, Jennifer Aniston, Mos Def, John Hawkes, Tim Robbins, Isla Fisher, Philip Roth, Michael Keaton, Al Pacino, video on demand, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Buck Henry, The Graduate, Heaven Can Wait, To Die For, Diner, Rain Man, Bugsy, Wag the Dog, Dianne Wiest, Dan Hedaya, Nina Arianda, Greta Gerwig, Joe Swanberg, Whit Stillman, Noah Baumbach

Blogs, Bleader Dec 1, 2014
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Horrible Bosses 2 has a lot to say about degradation—and almost none of it's funny

The latest lowbrow comedy from Warner Bros. also has a surprising amount in common with the chilling indie drama Ghosts of Empire Prairie, which screens in Chicago next week.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Gross, Film, Comedy, Horrible Bosses 2, Jennifer Aniston, Ghosts of Empire Prairie, Blake Eckard, Jon Jost, Tracy Letts, Killer Joe, Pang Ho-Cheung, Vulgaria, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 24, 2012
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Now showing: Wanderlust

Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston are New Yorkers experiencing a hippie commune in the latest from Role Models director David Wain
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Paul Rudd, Jennifer Aniston, Judd Apatow, David Wain, Role Models, Wet Hot American Summer, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 7, 2011
This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Gene Siskel Film Center, Patricio Guzman, Nostalgia for the Light, The Battle of Chile, Salvador Allende, Ben Sachs, Hands Up!, Jerzy Skolimowski, Andrea Gronvall, Project Nim, Man on Wire, James Marsh, A Better Life, Demian Bichir, Blank City, No Wave, Children of Hiroshima, The Ditch movie, Horrible Bosses, Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, Monte Carlo movie, The Names of Love, We Are the Night, Sergei Eisenstein, Alexander Nevsky, University of Chicago Doc Films, Douglas Fairbanks, The Black Pirate, Music Box, Dennis Scott, Spencer Tracy, Dante's Inferno, Portage theater, Roger Corman, The Masque of the Red Death, Facets Night School, Federico Fellini, I Vitelloni, National Pastime Theater, movies

Blogs, Bleader Jun 29, 2011
Free meat on the street from Horrible Bosses
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Free Shit, Food & Drink, Swag, Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, Warner Brothers comedy Horrible Bosses, Merchandise Mart, Chase Tower, free food, movies

Best of Chicago, Music & Nightlife Jun 23, 2011
Critics' Picks
Best musical YouTube sensation

Keenan Cahill
- Tags: Music & Nightlife, The Reader's picks, Keena Cahill, mucopolysaccharidosis VI, Maroteaux-Lamy syndrome, Katy Perry, 50 Cent, Jeremih, Dave Guetta, Pauly D, LMFAO, Britney Spears, Jennifer Aniston, Critics' Picks

Blogs, Bleader Mar 18, 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, Paul Greengrass, Green Zone, Universal Pictures, European Union Film Festival, Dogtooth, Just Anybody, Lourdes, Rembrandt's J'Accuse, A Year Ago in Winter, Helsinki Forever, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Jennifer Aniston, Bounty Hunter, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jonathan Demme, Neil Young Trunk Show, Nick Nolte No Exit, Repo Men, Runaways movie, She's Out of My League, Joseph H. Lewis, Gun Crazy, Gene Siskel Film Center, Paul Brickman, Risky Business, Music Box, Fritz Lang, Secret Beyond the Door, Nina Paley, Sita Sings the Blues, Bezazian Branch Library, Bank of America Cinema, God's Little Acre, Erskine Caldwell, Anthony Mann, Winchester 73, Bend of the River, Naked Spur, Man From Laramie, Man of the West, Jack Lord, Hawaii Five-O, Tina Louise, Gilligan's Island, Vic Morrow, Michael Landon, Little House on the Prairie, Robert Ryan, United Artists, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 14, 2009
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Size Does Matter

Masaki Kobayashi's ten-hour WWII epic "The Human Condition" opens tonight at Film Center. Would you trust a movie about the human condition that wasn't at least five or six hours?
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Movies, The Da Vinci Code, Gene Siskel Film Center, Music Box, J.R. Jones, Stanley Kubrick, The Betrayal, Gael Garcia Bernal, Cliff Doerksen, Masaki Kobayashi, The Human Condition, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, Full Metal Jacket, Every Little Step, Fatal Contact, Angels & Demons, Exclusively Yours, Lumpen, Mike Finch, Jazz in the Diamond District, Lost in the Fog, Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn, Management Jennifer Aniston, Management Aniston Zahn, Mob Sister, Next Day Air, Rudo y Cursi, Diego Luna, Video

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Brando is back, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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Jennifer Aniston takes the Cake, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Recommended
Jennifer Aniston finds her inner ugly in Cake

The veteran comic actress takes the dramatic plunge as a woman incapacitated by pain.

In The Humbling, Al Pacino stars as a Shakespearean actor who can't get it up

Barry Levinson directs the screen adaptation of Philip Roth's novel.

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Horrible Bosses 2 has a lot to say about degradation—and almost none of it's funny

The latest lowbrow comedy from Warner Bros. also has a surprising amount in common with the chilling indie drama Ghosts of Empire Prairie, which screens in Chicago next week.

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Now showing: Wanderlust

Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston are New Yorkers experiencing a hippie commune in the latest from Role Models director David Wain

This Week's Movie Action

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

Free meat on the street from Horrible Bosses

Critics' Picks
Best musical YouTube sensation

Keenan Cahill

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This Week's Movie Action

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

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Size Does Matter

Masaki Kobayashi's ten-hour WWII epic "The Human Condition" opens tonight at Film Center. Would you trust a movie about the human condition that wasn't at least five or six hours?

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

The veteran comic actress takes the dramatic plunge as a woman incapacitated by pain.

Barry Levinson directs the screen adaptation of Philip Roth's novel.

The latest lowbrow comedy from Warner Bros. also has a surprising amount in common with the chilling indie drama Ghosts of Empire Prairie, which screens in Chicago next week.

Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston are New Yorkers experiencing a hippie commune in the latest from Role Models director David Wain

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

Keenan Cahill

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

Masaki Kobayashi's ten-hour WWII epic "The Human Condition" opens tonight at Film Center. Would you trust a movie about the human condition that wasn't at least five or six hours?

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