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Blogs, Bleader Sep 4, 2018
Gone too soon: five films by directors who died young

These final films by five directors who died too young give a taste of what was left unrealized.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, Foreign, History, LGBTQ+, Moviegoing, Poverty, RIP, The Music Box Theatre, Chicago Film Society City Girl, F.W. Murnau, L'Atalante, Jean Vigo, Dita Parlo, Jean Daste, Michel Simon, Louis Lefebvre, Gilles Margaritis, Boris Kaufman, Maurice Jaubert, Jonathan Rosenbaum, The House Is Black, Forugh Farrokhzad, leper colony, Iran, The Conqueror Worm, The Witchfinder General, Vincent Price, Matthew Hopkins, Ronald Bassett, Michael Reeves, Carl Dreyer, Day of Wrath, Tigon Films, Hammer Films, Roger Corman, Edgar Allan Poe, J.R. Jones, Wanda, Barbara Loden, Don Druker, Savage Nights, Jacques Fieschi, Cyril Collard, Les nuits fauves, Romane Bohringer, AIDS, Philadelphia, Carlos Lopez

Blogs, Bleader Apr 18, 2018
Truth or Dare is a middling effort from a studio capable of much more

The new kid-friendly horror film is one of Blumhouse Productions' weakest films.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Truth or Dare, Blumhouse, Jason Blum, Roger Corman, Sinister, Sinister 2, Happy Death Day, Jeff Wadlow, Lucy Hale, The Purge, Insidious, Oculus

Blogs, Bleader Aug 30, 2015
The end of Weekly Top Five: Peter Bogdanovich's five best films

Drew Hunt's very last Top Five
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Film, Weekly Top Five, Peter Bogdanovich, She's Funny That Way, The Last Picture Show, What's Up Doc, Paper Moon, Gene Siskel Picture Show, Daisy Miller, They All Laughed, Heaven's Gate, Cruising, Targets, Roger Corman, Texasville, Paper Moon

Blogs, Bleader Apr 5, 2015
Five great car movies to rev your engine

The best car-chase films
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Furious 7, the Fast and the Furious, Roger Corman, car-chase movie, Two-Lane Blacktop, Monte Hellman, The Driver, Walter Hill, Duel, Steven Spielberg, Thunder Road, Arthur Ripley, Vanishing Point, Richard Sarafian

Blogs, Bleader Aug 10, 2014
Weekly Top Five: The best of Jonathan Demme

Highlights from the filmography of Jonathan Demme
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Jonathan Demme, Caged Heat, Roger Corman, Stop Making Sense, Talking Heads, Beloved, Pantages Theater, Citizens Band, Marshall McLuhan, Something Wild, Pat Garham

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

Film, Movie Sidebar Oct 10, 2013
The Massacre: Shocks around the clock

The long-running horror marathon relocates to the Patio Theater.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Music Box, the Portage, the Patio, Frankensein, Edison Studios, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr., Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, Vincent Price, Guy Maddin, Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity, George Romero, Martin, Gary Sherman, Dead and Buried, Roger Corman, Fred Walton, April Fool's Day, Nightmare on Elm Street, Part Two: Freddy's Revenge, Mark Patton, Dario Argento, Deep Red, Army of Darkness, Sam Raimi

Blogs, Bleader Aug 14, 2013
Reader's Agenda Wed 8/14: The Sound Opinions End of Summer BBQ, Garlic Fest, and The Intruder

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wednesday, August 14
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Sound Opinions End of Summer BBQ, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Smoque, Bang Bang Pie Shop, Black Dog Gelato, Butcher & Larder, Goose Island, WBEZ, Navy Pier, Garlic Fest, Everts Park, Highland Park, Northwest Chicago Film Society, The Intruder, Roger Corman, Star Trek, William Shatner

Blogs, Bleader Aug 9, 2013
Video
Great popular art, past and present, and the rest of this week's movies

Noting new and notable movies playing in Chicago between August 9 and 15
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Drug War, Johnnie To, Gene Siskel Film Center, Black Harvest Film Festival, Alfred Hitchcock, Music Box Theatre, Hitchcock 9, silent films, popular art, 2 Guns, Mark Wahlberg, Denzel Washington, South Side Projections, Logan Center for the Arts, Revolution on Film, ONO, Trick Bag, Kartemquin Films, No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger, It's a Gift, W.C. Fields, Northbrook Public Library, Peter Kuttner, Elysium, Neill Blomkamp, District 9, Europa Report, Sebastian Cordero, sci-fi, Lovelace, Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, biopic, Kid-Thing, Facets Multimedia, The Spectacular Now, Landmark Century Center, We're the Millers, The Year I Broke My Voice, Chicago Filmmakers, Doc Films, Our Daily Bread, Babe, King Vidor, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Sergio Leone, David Fincher, The Game, Fight Club, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Patio Theater, The Intruder, Roger Corman, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 30, 2013
Between Beyond the Valley and Dutch Wife in the Desert, Chicago is in the "pink" this weekend

Two subversive sexploitation classics are screening in Chicago.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Film, Doc Films, University of Chicago, Film Studies Center, Russ Meyer, Koji Wakamatsu, pink films, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Roger Ebert, Music Box Theatre, The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai, Mitsuru Meike, Chicago International Film Festival, Stephanie Rothman, Roger Corman, New World Pictures, The Student Nurses, The Working Girls, sexploitation, Funeral Parade of Roses, Matsumoto Toshio, Dutch Wife in the Desert, Seijun Suzuki, Yamatoya Atsushi, Branded to Kill, Pandemonium

Blogs, Bleader Mar 3, 2013
Weekly Top Five: Science fiction, the art of extrapolation

Weekly Top Five: sci-films
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Don Siegel, Philip Kaufman, Dave Kehr, Fearless Frank, sci-fi, Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dead End Drive-In, Brian Trenchard-Smith, Raoul Walsh, Robert Aldrich, unk food, punk rock, B-movies, Silent Running, Douglas Trumbull, Southland Tales, Richard Kelly, Cannes Film Festival, 9/11, Repo Man, Alex Cox, Ronald Reagan, Criterion Collection, Luis Bunuel, Scanners, David Cronenberg, The Fly, Roger Corman, It Conquered the Earth, Edgar G. Ulmer, The Man From Planet X, Nacho Vigalondo, Timecrimes

Blogs, Bleader Feb 3, 2013
Weekly Top Five: The haphazard grace of Roger Corman

Weekly Top Five: the films of Roger Corman, auteur
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Cinema Minima, Cole's, Logan Square, Super Bowl, Ivan Reitman, Meatballs, Maya Deren, Roger Corman, Death Race 2000, It Conquered the Earth, The Wild Angels, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Undead, Bucket of Blood, Machine-Gun Kelly, The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, The Trip, Bloody Mama

Blogs, Bleader Sep 30, 2012
The Weekly Top Five: Debuts

Top Five Debut Films
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, They Live by Night, Nicholas Ray, Rebel Without a Cause, The Great McGinty, Preston Sturges, The Miracle of Morgan Creek, Unfaithfully Yours, Targets, Peter Bogdanovich, Roger Corman, Francis Ford Coppola, Monte Hellman, Jack Hill, Jack Nicholson, Boris Karloff, L'Age D'Or, Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali, Shadows, John Cassavetes, Bela Tarr, The Family Nest, Kevin Smith, Clerks, Badlands, Roman Polanski, Knife in the Water, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Accatone, Mama Roma, Citizen Kane, Orson Welles, Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard, Sauve qui peut (la vie), Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five

Blogs, Bleader Aug 9, 2012
The orgiast: an interview with Joe Dante (part two)

The second part of an interview with the director of Gremlins 2: The New Batch and The Movie Orgy
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Joe Dante, Gabe Klinger, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Music Box Theatre, The Movie Orgy, The Nightingale, Jon Davison, Bruce Dern, Schlitz Beer, The 'Burbs, Gremlins, Rick Baker, Innerspace, Trailers From Hell, Steven Spielberg, Warner Brothers Pictures, Movies Till Dawn, The Watch, Matinee, Hollywood Boulevard, Roger Corman

Film, Movie Sidebar Aug 8, 2012
Joe Dante invites you to an orgy

The veteran fantasy filmmaker hits town for screenings of The Hole, Gremlins 2, and his 1968 pop-culture epic The Movie Orgy
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Joe Dante, Roger Corman

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 Sep 16, 2009
"Shades of Bacchus!" Joe Dante Talks W.C. Fields
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Toronto International Film Festival, Joe Dante, Joe Dante Hole, Piranha, The Howling, Gremlins, W.C. Fields, It's a Gift, Innerspace, Joe Dante Matinee, Small Soldiers, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Norman Z. McLeod, Marx Brothers, Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, Danny Kaye, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Bob Hope, Road to Rio, The Paleface, David Lynch, Martin Short, Ted Kotcheff, Wake in Fright, Trailers From Hell, Roger Corman, Jahn Sayles, Martin Scorsese, filmmakers, fi;m festivals, movies

Blogs, Bleader Jan 9, 2007
Klaatu barada nikto

We have met the aliens, and they are us.
- By Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Forbidden Planet, Ray Harryhausen, Roger Corman, UFOs, Woods Theater, Roswell, New Mexico

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These final films by five directors who died too young give a taste of what was left unrealized.

The new kid-friendly horror film is one of Blumhouse Productions' weakest films.

Drew Hunt's very last Top Five

The best car-chase films

Highlights from the filmography of Jonathan Demme

Weekly Top Five: Joe Dante

The long-running horror marathon relocates to the Patio Theater.

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wednesday, August 14

Noting new and notable movies playing in Chicago between August 9 and 15

Two subversive sexploitation classics are screening in Chicago.

Weekly Top Five: sci-films

Weekly Top Five: the films of Roger Corman, auteur

Top Five Debut Films

The second part of an interview with the director of Gremlins 2: The New Batch and The Movie Orgy

The veteran fantasy filmmaker hits town for screenings of The Hole, Gremlins 2, and his 1968 pop-culture epic The Movie Orgy

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

We have met the aliens, and they are us.

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