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Film, Movie Review Jul 23, 2015
Staten Island Summer: Revenge of the teen-sex comedy

A new feature from the SNL crew brings back the bad old days of Porky's
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Movie Review, Rhys Thomas, Staten Island Summer, Colin Jost, teen sex comedy, Porky's, Revenge of the Nerds, SNL, Colin Jost, Graham Phillips, Zack Pearlman, Ashley Greene, Fred Armisen, Bill Murray, Caddyshack, Bobby Moynihan, John Belushi, Animal House, Michael Cera, Jonah Hill, Superbad

Film, Movie Review Jul 10, 2015
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Minions proves that celebrity voices don't make a children's animation

Sandra Bullock stars in the latest Despicable Me feature—but who cares?
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Kyle Balda, Pierre Coffin, Minions, Despicable Me, Despicable Me 2, Dreamworks, Shark Tale, Over the Hedge, Bruce Willis, William Shatner, Robert De Niro, Steve Carrell, MegaMind, Brad Pitt, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill, Sandra Bullock, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 17, 2015
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The Chicago Palestine Film Festival and CIMMFest highlight 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, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, Eyes of a Thief, Chicago Latino Film Festival, Chicago Internatonal Movies & Music Festival, Canal Zone, Clouds of Sils Maria, Olivier Assayas, Carlos Olivier Assayas, Summer Hours, Olivier Assayas, Ex Machina, 28 Days Later, Alex Garland, Oscar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson, The Longest Ride, Nicholas Sparks, George Tillman Jr., Soul Food, True Story, Jonah Hill, James Franco, John Hughes, The Breakfast Club, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Sound Opinions, Stephen Hopkins, The Ghost and the Darkness, Alaka Wali, Frank Tashlin, The Lieutenant Wore Skirts, Stanley Kubrick, Lolita, Mary Harron, The Notorious Bettie Pag, Orson Welles, The Trial, Nick Kroll, Adult Beginners, Roger Beebe, Andy Warhol, Dan Savage, Hump! Film Festival, Poetry on Public Television: The 1960s, Sci-Fi Spectacular, Sound of Silent Film Festival, film festivals, movies, Video

Film, Movie Review Apr 16, 2015
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James Franco and Jonah Hill exploit each other in True Story

In this adaptation of Michael Finkel's confessional memoir, a murder suspect plays mind games with a reporter.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Rupert Goold, True Story, Jonah Hill, James Franco, journalism, New York Times Magazine, Christian Longo, Michael Finkel, Shattered Glass, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Dec 19, 2014
Best Films of 2014, number seven: Joe

J.R. Jones counts down his favorite films of 2014. Today at number seven: Joe.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Joe David Gordon Green, Nicolas Cage, Werner Herzog, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Larry Brown, George Washington David Gordon Green, All the Real Girls, Undertow David Gordon Green, James Franco, Your Highness, Jonah Hill, The Sitter, Tye Sheridan, The Tree of Life, Terence Malick, best movies of 2014

Blogs, Bleader Jun 24, 2014
Further thoughts on 22 Jump Street, devils, and cartoons

How The Wolf of Wall Street and The Lego Movie made me change my tune on the Jonah Hill-Channing Tatum comedy series.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Arts, Film, Comedy, 22 Jump Street, 21 Jump Street, Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Christopher Miler, Pete Lord, The Wolf of Wall Street, Martin Scorsese, Frank Tashlin, Jerry Lewis, The King of Comedy, Looney Tunes

Blogs, Bleader Jun 13, 2014
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Chicago African Diaspora Film Festival, 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, Chicago African Diaspora Film Festival, Freedom Summer, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, The Cast Against 8, Mother Joan of the Angels, Night Moves, Kelly Reichardt, Wendy and Lucy, Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, Peter Sarsgaard, The Signal movie, Citizen Koch, Carl Deal, Tia Lessen, Trouble the Water, The Fault in Our Stars, The Grand Seduction, Seducing Dr. Lewis, Night Train, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon, Mike Myer, 22 Jump Street, Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Victor Fleming, Gone With the Wind, Pickwick Park Ridge, Jared Hess, Napoleon Dynamite, Music Box, Gene Saks, The Odd Couple, Logan Theater Chicago, Rare Baseball Films, Joe DiMaggio, Christy Mathewson, Willie Mays, Hack Wilson, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, 16mm Animation Showcase, George Griffin, Kathy Laughlin, Sally Cruikshank, Video

Film, Movie Review Nov 27, 2013
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The kids are all over in Delivery Man

Vince Vaughn stars as a sperm donor with 533 children.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Ken Scott, Vince Vaughn, Delivery Man, Lake Forest, The Dilemma, Ron Howard, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Cobie Smulders, Jennifer Connelly, Knocked Up, Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill, Martin Starr, Quebec, Starbuck, Ken Scott, Martin Petit, Chris Pratt, Jack Raynor, Britt Robertson, Sebastien Rene, Adam Chanler-Berat, Moneyball, The Five-Year Engagement, Seven Up, Ozzie & Harriet, The Kids Are All Right, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 21, 2013
All-American bullshitting with writer-director David Gordon Green (part two)

The director of Prince Avalanche expounds on his creative process, what makes him laugh, and the influence of Super Mario Brothers on his new film.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Comedy, David Gordon Green, interview, The Sitter, Prince Avalanche, Jonah Hill, Undertow, Snow Angels, All the Real Girls, Your Highness, Morse code, Howard Hawks, Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch, Craig Zobel, Judd Apatow, Super Mario Brothers, Buster Keaton

Film, Movie Critic's Choice Jun 20, 2013
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Armageddon is just the beginning in This Is the End

Seth Rogen and pals go surfing on the Lake of Fire.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Critic's Choice, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, James Franco, Craig Robinson, Danny McBride, Jonah Hill, Evan Goldberg, Superbad, Michael Cera, Channing Tatum, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 14, 2013
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English tape, 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, Gene Siskel Film Center, Toby Jones, Berberian Sound Studio, Man of Steel, Dirty Wars, Rick Rowley, Jeremy Scahill, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, Don't Stop, Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, Fill the Void, Gideon's Army, High Tech Low Life, Pandora's Promise, The Purge, Chicago African Diaspora Film Festival, Shadow Dancer, Andrea Risebrough, Clive Owen, Somm movie, The Source Family, Father Yod, Sourcin, This Is the End, Seth Rogen, James Franco, Jonah Hill, Haile Gerima, Ashes and Embers, Black Cinema House, Robert Zemeckis, Back to the Future, Busby Berkeley, The Gang's All Here, Northbrook Public Library, The Godfather Part II, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Swing Time, Music Box, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, UCLA Film & Television Archive, Joe DiMaggio, Christy Mathewson, Willie Mays, Hack Wilson, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 27, 2012
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All this and air-conditioning too: the week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Music Box, Chicago French Film Festival, Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin, 17 Girls, A Cat in Paris, Gene Siskel Film Center, Umberto Lenzi, Nightmare City, University of Chicago Doc Films. Hayao Miyazaki, Porco Rosso, Sacrifice movie, Chen Kaige, Farewell My Concubine, El Velador, Culiacan, The Watch movie, Ben Stiller, Jonah Hill, Vince Vaughn, Marx Brothers, Leo McCarey, Duck Soup, Logan theater, Harold Lloyd, The Kid Brother, Portage theater, Tim Baker, Frank Borzage, Little Man What Now?, Stuart Schulberg, Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today, Spertus Institute, Jame Whale, Show Boat, 50 Years @ 1512: A History of the Better Boys Foundation, Lawndale 10, Block Museum of Art, Rare Baseball Films: The Newsreels, David Filipi, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 26, 2012
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Opening soon: The Watch

Ben Stiller and company go hunting for aliens in this sci-fi comedy
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Neighborhood Watch, Trayvon Martin, Ben Stiller, Tropic Thunder, Tower Heist, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, Richard Ayoade, Costco, Akiva Skaffer, Saturday Night Live, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Rosemarie DeWitt, R. Lee Ermey, Will Forte, science fiction, comedy, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 15, 2012
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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, Marcin Wrona, The Christening, Gene Siskel Film Center, European Union Film Festival, Andre Techine, Unforgivable movie, Footnote movie, I Am Secretly an Important Man, Jesse Bernstein, Jeff Who Lives at Home, Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass, Ed Helms, Jason Siegel, Kill List, Seeking Justice, Nicolas Cage, Roger Donaldson, The Snowtown Murders, 21 Jump Street, Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Douglas Sirk, All That Heaven Allows, Music Box, Lucrecia Martel, The Holy Girl, Daniel Eisenberg, Terence Davies, The Long Day Closes, Music Box, The Deep Blue Sea, Terence Rattigan, Sound of Silent Film Festival, Chris Marker, La Jetee, Chantal Akerman, Hotel Monterrey, Columbia College, Dan Dinello, Kristen Day, Capone's Whiskey: The Story of Templeton Rye, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 16, 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, Carl Jung, Michael Fassbender, David Cronenberg, A Dangerous Method, Sigmund Freud, Viggo Mortensen, Sabina Spielrein, Keira Knightley, That Girl in Yellow Boots, Lads & Jockeys, Frederick Wiseman, The Last Circus, Alex de la Iglesias, El Crimen Perfecto, New Year's Eve, Garry Marshall, Pretty Woman, Valentine's Day, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, The Sitter movie, Jonah Hill, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John le Carre, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, John Hurt, Toby Jones, Ciaran Hinds, White Christmas, It's a Wonderful Life, Music Box, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Antonio Gaudi, Gene Siskel Film Center, The Johnny Cash Christmas Special, Delilah's, Vincente Minnelli, Meet Me in St. Louis, Northbrook Public Library, Mitchell Liesen, Remember the Night, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Santa Sangre, Chicago Cinema Society, film societies, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 8, 2011
Now playing: The Sitter

A review of the new Jonah Hill comedy.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, The Sitter movie, Jonah Hill, Sam Rockwell, Kylie Bunbury, David Gordon Green, Your Highness, movies

Blogs, Bleader Nov 4, 2010
Now Playing: Megamind

J.R. Jones reviews the new Dreamworks animation Megamind.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Pixar, The Incredibles, Zoom movie, Hancock movie, ABC, No Ordinary Family, Dreamworks, Will Ferrrell, Brad Pitt, Metro Man, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill, Tom MccGrath, Madagascar, animated features, computer animation, movies

Blogs, Bleader Apr 25, 2008
Here we go again . . .

Forgetting Sarah's easy ... but what about Wong Kar-wai?
- By Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, Judd Apatow, Sex Is Comedy, Catherine Breillat, Bruno Dumont, Wong Kar-wai, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, My Blueberry Nights, Jonah Hill, Natalie Portman, Norman Foster, Journey Into Fear, Twentynine Palms, Zabriskie Point

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A new feature from the SNL crew brings back the bad old days of Porky's

Sandra Bullock stars in the latest Despicable Me feature—but who cares?

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

In this adaptation of Michael Finkel's confessional memoir, a murder suspect plays mind games with a reporter.

J.R. Jones counts down his favorite films of 2014. Today at number seven: Joe.

How The Wolf of Wall Street and The Lego Movie made me change my tune on the Jonah Hill-Channing Tatum comedy series.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Vince Vaughn stars as a sperm donor with 533 children.

The director of Prince Avalanche expounds on his creative process, what makes him laugh, and the influence of Super Mario Brothers on his new film.

Seth Rogen and pals go surfing on the Lake of Fire.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Ben Stiller and company go hunting for aliens in this sci-fi comedy

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

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

A review of the new Jonah Hill comedy.

J.R. Jones reviews the new Dreamworks animation Megamind.

Forgetting Sarah's easy ... but what about Wong Kar-wai?

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