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- Blogs, Bleader Sep 17, 2018
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Raya Martin discusses Filipino cinema and his latest film, the crime drama Smaller and Smaller Circles
The 34-year-old filmmaker will be in Chicago this Wednesday when Asian Pop-Up Cinema screens Smaller and Smaller Circles.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 13, 2018
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Pro tip for mayoral hopefuls: Don't govern by press release, do sweat the small stuff
Many Chicagoans never felt that Rahm Emanuel was their mayor.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 22, 2018
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Lana Turner shines as FilmStruck's Star of the Week
FilmStruck's "star of the week" Lana Turner shines in these five films.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 15, 2018
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Alderman who joked about the ‘gangsters’ on the City Council to plead guilty to corruption charges
Hmm, maybe 20th Ward alderman Willie Cochran really wasn't joking about being a gangster after all.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 14, 2018
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The scrappy pre-Code years of William A. Wellman — FilmStruck's director of the week
Hollywood stalwart William A. Wellman had a long, diverse career, but his 1930s pre-Code films remain his most vital.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 13, 2018
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Noir City: Chicago travels back in time to the postwar golden age of noir
The organizing principle seems to have been: what was a typical night at the movies like for the average American crime fiction fan in the late 40s and 50s?
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 31, 2018
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Jean-Pierre Melville's brooding cinema surveyed on FilmStruck
FilmStruck presents the films of influential French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 20, 2018
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Does the Second Amendment apply to black people?
With all the attention focused on the Chicago Police shooting of Harith Augustus, the silence coming from the gun rights groups is deafening.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 18, 2018
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FilmStruck spotlights the sophisticated cinema of George Cukor
George Cukor, the great Hollywood auteur hiding in plain sight, gets the "director of the week" treatment form FilmStruck.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 3, 2018
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James Cagney is more than just a tough-guy as FilmStruck's Star of the Week
James Cagney dances past his gangster persona in several of FilmStruck's "Star of the Week" selections.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 28, 2018
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Historic home destroyed in fire; ex-owner furious at county for failing to secure it
The 125-year-old home had been ravaged by vandals after crews decided not to board up a basement window.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 19, 2018
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Distinguished CPS principal resigns after threats, controversy over anti-police speaker
The tension at Wildwood Elementary comes as the Jon Burge police torture curriculum is rolled out across the district.
- Blogs, Bleader May 25, 2018
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That time a Cook County judge ruled on the case of a man he himself put in prison when he was still a prosecutor
In 2006 John Conroy reported an incredible story about how the Jon Burge torture scandal continues to reverberate in the judiciary
- Blogs, Bleader May 23, 2018
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John Huston, FilmStruck's Director of the Week, had a way with actors
FilmStruck "Director of the Week" John Huston always got great performances, from Humphrey Bogart in the 1940s to his daughter Anjelica Huston in the '80s,
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 25, 2018
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Life inside a supermax prison
Tamms Correctional Center was Illinois's only supermax prison. The Reader may have played a part in shutting it down.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 24, 2018
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FilmStruck’s ‘Early Hitchcock’ shows the master of suspense mastering suspense
The streaming-video channel FilmStruck collects early films by the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 10, 2018
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Undercover cops infiltrate FilmStruck this week
FilmStruck showcases undercover cop films this week, with movies by Anthony Mann and Quentin Tarantino.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 27, 2018
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Nautical thrillers and mysteries set sail on FilmStruck this week
The streaming-cinema channel presents features by Antonioni, Arthur Penn, and Rene Clement.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 20, 2018
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Thoroughbreds is a handsomely understated drama about awful people
Cory Finley's nifty debut about rich kids who plot a murder is now playing in general release.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 7, 2018
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For years the whereabouts of Allen Ross were a mystery—and then the mystery was solved
Jack Helbig told the whole strange story of the filmmaker's disappearance in two installments.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 2, 2018
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Going deep into the ‘Tylenol murders’ and the mind of the extortionist who claimed responsibility
How a horrible crime went unsolved.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 29, 2018
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Here's why it's now illegal to impersonate a firefighter in the state of Illinois
All thanks is due to the Lost Creek Fire Company of Lake County.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 23, 2018
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Jack Black is a delightful singing con man in The Polka King
The new comic docudrama is now available to stream on Netflix.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 2, 2018
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This was what it was like to live in Chicago in 2017
How can the police have any authority when they've squandered the public trust?
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 14, 2017
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My Friend Dahmer is a portrait of the mass murderer as a young man
Marc Meyers's film adaptation of Derf Backderf's graphic novel is an unlikely mix of exploitation and art.