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Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jan 25, 2019
There will be blood in Evil Dead: The Musical

Especially if you sit in the splatter zone.
- By Josh Flanders
- Tags: Theater Review, Evil Dead: The Musical, Black Button Eyes, Evil Dead, Sam Raimi, Jordan Dell Harris, Caitlin Jackson, Shane Roberie, George Reinblatt, Oliver Townsend, horror, spoof

Film, Movie Review Jun 16, 2016
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Warcraft: The game was better

Humans and Orcs battle for supremacy in this adaptation of the medieval fantasy game.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Warcraft, Duncan Jones, Blizzard Entertainment, Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, World of Warcraft, George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road, Warner Bros., STX Entertainment, Hardcore Henry, Timur Bekmambetov, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Ilya Naishuller, Moon Duncan Jones, Source Code, Sam Raimi, Travis Fimmel, Toby Kebbell, Paula Patton, video games, role-playing games, MMORPG, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 30, 2015
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Psychologists gone wild, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable sceenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Michael Almereyda, Experimenter, Stanley Milgram, Kyle Patrick Alvarez, The Stanford Prison Experiment, Taxi Jafar Panahi, The Assassin, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Burnt movie, Bradley Cooper, Jem and the Holograms, The Last Witch Hunter, Vin Diesel, Nasty Baby, Sebastian Silva, The Maid, Kristen Wiig, Our Brand Is Crisis, Suffragette, Carey Mulligan, Tokyo-Ga, Wim Wenders, Truth movie, Dan Rather, Francis Ford Coppola, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight, Sam Raimi, Drag Me to Hell, William Friedkin, The Exorcist, Jean Epstein, The Fall of the House of Usher, Chris Marker, Le Joli Mai, Ingmar Bergman, The Magician, F.W. Murnau, Nosferatu, Trinity United Methodist Church, Fred Zinnemann, Oklahoma!, Michael Curtiz, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, Victor Halperin, White Zombie, Wim Wenders, Wings of Desire, Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema, Chicago International Children's Film Festival, A Day's Work, Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, First Nations Film & Video Festival, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 11, 2015
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Fall movies on the march, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Agnes Varda, Cleo From 5 to 7, The Gleaners and I, Stuart Sherman, Asian Pop-Up Cinema, Rahmin Bahrani, Man Push Cart, Ryan Coogler, Fruitvale Station, Patricio Guzman, The Battle of Chile, Thomas McCarthy, The Station Agent, Steven Spielberg, The Sugarland Express, Denis Villeneuve, Incendies, Dreamcatcher, Brenda Myers-Powell, 4th Man Out, Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival, Meet the Patels, The Mend, Sandra Luchino Visconti, The Transporter Refueled, Milos Forman, Amadeus: The Director's Cut, Sam Raimi, The Evil Dead, Fritz Lang, Metropolis, Fred Camper, Alfred Hitchcock, North by Northwest, Ernst Lubitsch, So This Is Paris, Jay Warren, Frank Capra Submarine, Dennis Scott, Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver, Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival, Red Squads and Beyond 1960s to Present, Reel Abilities Film Festival, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 8, 2015
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Far From the Madding Crowd, the rest of our new movie reviews, and this week's notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Far From the Madding Crowd, Carey Mulligan, Ben Sachs, The D Train, Jack Black, James Marsden, Queen and Country, Gene Siskel Film Center, John Boorman, Point Blank, Deliverance, Hope and Glory, M*A*S*H, Stripes, About Elly, Asghar Farhadi Separation, Aspen Frederick Wiseman, Black Souls, Heaven Adores You, Elliott Smith, Christina Noble documentary, Roar movie, Tippi Hedren, Welcome to Me, Kristen Wiig, Music Box Chicago, Shira Piven, Joan Cusack, Orson Welles, Chimes at Midnight, University of Chicago Doc Films, Sam Raimi, The Evil Dead, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Flowers of Shanghai, Hope and Glory, Edward S. Curtis, In the Land of the Head Hunters, Dennis Scott, Hayao Miyazaki, Princess Mononoke, Alexander Korda, That Hamilton Woman, Frank Tashlin, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, CineYouth Festival, Columbia College Film Row Cinema, Dyke Delicious May Shorts, Chicago Filmmakers, For Educational Purposes Only, Washington Park Arts Incubator, Sing-A-Long Mamma Mia, Sonic Celluloid, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Ruined Heart, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 31, 2014
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Everyone else is wrong, 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, Damien Chazelle, Whiplash, Ben Sachs, Nightcrawler, Jake Gyllenhaal, CitizenFour, Laura Poitras, Edward Snowden, Hellaware, J'Accuse, Abel Gance, E-Team, Human Rights Watch, Harmontown, Community Dan Harmon, Horns Daniel Radcliffe, The X-Ray of Civilization, Tom Rubnitz, David Wojnarowicz, Tommy Turner, Ernst Lubitsch, Broken Lullaby, Gene Siskel Film Center, Robert Wiene, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Chicago Symphony Center, Cameron Carpenter, Sam Raimi, The Evil Dead, Logan Theater Chicago, Ingmar Bergman, Fanny and Alexander, University of Chicago Doc Films, Alain Resnais, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Music Box Chicago, Albert Brooks, s Modern Romance, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Henry Selick, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Roberto Rossellini, Open City, Samuel Fuller, Shock Corridor, WIP Theater Chicago, Lee Kepraios, Mostra V: Brazilian Film Series, Columbia College Film Row Cinema, First Nations Film and Video Festival, Mitchell Museum, LaDonna Harris: Indian 101, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 24, 2014
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The inmates take over the asylum, 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, Ben Sachs, Stonehearst Asylum, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Edgar Allan Poe, The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether, Anda Korsts's Video Metropolis, Anda Korsts, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Michael Keaton, The Blue Room, Mathieu Amalric, Creative Writing, Dear White People, John Wick, Keanu Reeves, Levitated Mass, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Listen Up Philip, Alex Ross Perry, The Color Wheel, Jason Schwartzman, Music Box Chicago, Nagisa Oshima, Death by Hanging, Empire of Passion, Gene Siskel Film Center, Sam Raimi, The Evil Dead, Logan Theater Chicago, John Carpenter Halloween, Satyajit Ray, Pather Panchali, University of Chicago Doc Films, Avi Nesher Secrets, Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema, Errol Morris, Standard Operating Procedure, Akira Kurosawa, Throne of Blood, Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema, Chicago International Children's Film Festival, Facets Cinematheque, Fatal Frame: Avant-Garde Horror on 16mm, South Side Projections, Robert Downey Sr., Putney Swope, Black Cinema House, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, Wyatt Cenac, Lav Diaz, Norte the End of History, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, film festivals, movies, Video

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

Film, Movie Review Sep 18, 2013
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A fish-out-of-water comedy that’s just Godunov

The Family features Robert De Niro parodying not just his past films but Americans abroad.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, witness protection program, My Blue Heaven, Sister Act, The Family, Luc Besson, Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dianna Agron, John D'Leo, Boris Godunov, Looney Tunes, mafia, The Heat, Identity Thief, We're the Millers, Grown Ups 2, The Hangover Part III, The Lone Range, R.I.P.D., Despicable Me 2, Monsters University, The Croods, Buster Keaton, Mack Sennet, Frank Tashlin, Jerry Lewis, Joe Dante, Sam Raimi, the Coen brothers, Tommy Lee Jones, No Country for Old Men, Bruno Dumont, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 5, 2013
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An old-school Reader blowout, 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, Room 237, Stanley Kubrick, The Shining, Tabu, F.W. Murnau, Tabu: A Story of the South Seas, Evil Dead, Sam Raimi, The Host movie, Twilight Stephenie Meyer, Never the Same: The Prisoner of War Experience, The Place Beyond the Pines, Derek Cianfrance, Blue Valentine, Adam McKay, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Landmark's Century Centre, Arthur Penn, Bonnie and Clyde, University of Chicago Doc Films, Werner Herzog, Only Dwarfs Started Small, Stephen Frears, High Fidelity, Logan Theater Chicago, Chris Marker, La Jetee, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 19, 2012
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Our enormous film-festival package, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Chicago International Film Festival, Alex Cross, Tyler Perry, James Patterson, Easy Money, The Eight-Diagram Pole Fighter, Shaw Brothers Studio, For Ellen, Paul Dano, Middle of Nowhere, Mourning movie, Sinister movie, Ethan Hawke, Smashed movie, War of the Buttons, You've Been Trumped, Donald Trump, Aberdeenshire, Hayao Miyazaki, Castle in the Sky (1986), University of Chicago Doc Films, Claude Sautet, Classe Tous Risques, Sam Raimi, Drag Me to Hell, Wes Craven, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Logan Theater Chicago, William Wellman, Night Nurse, Music Box, Jacques Tourneur, Nightfall movie, Gene Siskel Film Center, Fred Camper, Edgar Wright, Shaun of the Dead, Vic Theatre Chicago, Steve McQueen, Hunger movie, Shame movie, Art Institute of Chicago Rubloff Auditorium, Don Mullan, Bloody Sunday, Paul Greengrass, DePaul University Daley Building, Terror in the Aisles, The Massacre, Portage Theater Chicago, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 7, 2012
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A Tony Scott memorial and this week's other notable screenings

A roundup of local screenings happening this week
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Unstoppable, Tony Scott, Music Box Theatre, Bone, Larry Cohen, Seeing the Light, South Side Projections, Poetry Magazine, The Crowd, King Vidor, Compliance, King Vidor, Love in Another Language, Turkish cinema, Green, Sophia Takal, The Possession, Sam Raimi, Queen of Hearts, Valerie Donzelli, Samsara, California State of Mind, Big Trouble in Little China, repertory screenings, Cinema Borealis, John Carpenter, I'm No Angel, Mae West, The Searchers, John Ford, Fred Camper, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 3, 2012
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Sick with fear, and the rest of the week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's, you know, issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Drew Hunt, Columbia College, Killer Joe, William Friedkin (The Boys in the Band, The French Connection, The Exorcist, Cruising, Bug movie, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Tracy Letts, August: Osage County, Knox College, Galesburg, The Exorcist, William Friedkin, A Black Harvest Feast, Gene Siskel Film Center, Black Harvest Film Festival, The Christmas Tree, Angel Krsiti Williams, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Girlfriend Boyfriend, The Loves of Pharoah, Ernst Lubitsch, The Queen of Versailles, Richard's Wedding, Total Recall, Paul Verhoeven, Alice Svankmajer, Lewis Carroll, Jan Svankmajer, Abel Ferrara, The Driller Killer, Sam Raimi, The Evil Dead, Logan theater, Busby Berkeley, The Gang's All Here, Music Box, Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life, King Kong, Lewis Milestone, Hallelujah I'm a Bum, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Dziga Vertoz, The Man With the Movie Camera, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 29, 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, Bob Bowdon, Landmarks Century Centre, The Cartel, Bob Bowdon Cartel, Harry Brown, Michael Caine, Square movie, Exit Through the Gift Shop, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Jackie Earle Haley, Robert Englund, Freddy Krueger, The Scientist, Scientist movie, Who Do You Love, Phil Chess, Leonard Chess, Chess Records, Cadillac Records, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, A Canterbury Tale, Bank of America Cinema, Akira Kurosawa, Drunken Angel, Gene Siskel Film Center, Sam Raimi, The Evil Dead, Music Box, The Hidden Fortress, Otto Preminger, Saint Joan, University of Chicago Doc Films, Anthony Mann, Winchester 73, Northbrook Public Library, Chicago movies, movies., Video

Film, Movie Sidebar Aug 13, 2009
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Terror in the Aisles 2

The Portage Theater hosts an evening of campy horror festivities.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Terror in the Aisles, Portage Theater, Evild Dead, horror, My Bloody Valentine, Sam Raimi, Rusty Nails, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 29, 2009
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Up: Yours!

The new Pixar animation opens today. Also in this week's issue, Sam Raimi's "Drag Me to Hell," the Oscar-winning "Departures," and a Jonathan Rosenbaum review of the Noel Coward adaptation "Easy Virtue."
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Movies, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Gene Siskel Film Center, Facets Cinematheque, North Avenue Beach, Andrea Gronvall, Ed M. Koziarski, Spider-Man, RiffRaff, Up Pixar, Up Pixar movie, Sam Raimi, Drag Me to Hell, Easy Virtue, Noel Coward, Stephan Elliott, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Alison Lohman, Departures, Eldorado, Dillinger Is Dead, Courting Condi, Condoleezza Rice, What Goes Up, Steve Coogan, Olivia Thirlby, Hilary Duff, Video

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Especially if you sit in the splatter zone.

Humans and Orcs battle for supremacy in this adaptation of the medieval fantasy game.

New reviews and notable sceenings in this week's issue

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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

The Family features Robert De Niro parodying not just his past films but Americans abroad.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

A roundup of local screenings happening this week

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's, you know, issue

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

The Portage Theater hosts an evening of campy horror festivities.

The new Pixar animation opens today. Also in this week's issue, Sam Raimi's "Drag Me to Hell," the Oscar-winning "Departures," and a Jonathan Rosenbaum review of the Noel Coward adaptation "Easy Virtue."

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