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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 28, 2011
Now playing: In Time

Andrea Gronvall reviews the futuristic sci-fi thriller from director Andrew Niccols.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, In Time, Andrea Gronvall, Andrew Niccol, Gattaca, Lord of War, Justin Timberlake, Olivia Wilde, Vincent Kartheiser, Amanda Seyfried, science fiction, sci-fi movies

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 11, 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, Film Noir Foundation, Egyptian Theater, Noir City Chicago 3, Music Box, Brute Force, Burt Lancaster, Sorry Wrong Number, Barbara Stanwyck, Deadline USA, Humphrey Bogart, The Dark Mirror, Olivia De Havilland, The Blue Dahlia, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Loophole movie, Larceny movie, Andrea Gronvall, The Interrupters, Steve James, Alex Kotlowitz, Gene Siskel Film Center, Black Harvest International Festival of Film and Video, Yelling to the Sky, Gabourey Sidibe, Precious movie, Autumn Execution, Lee Hsing, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Detroit Wild City, The Help movie, Emma Stone, Sissy Spacek, Viola Davis, Jessica Chastain, The Tree of Life, Sleep Furiously, Wales, 30 Minutes or Less, Reuben Fleischer, Zombieland, Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network, Aziz Ansari, Funny People, The Whistleblower, Rachel Weisz, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Robert Wiene, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, University of Chicago Doc Films, Samuel Fuller, I Shot Jesse James, The Steel Helmet, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, F.W. Murnau, Sunrise movie, Sunrise Murnau, Silent Film Society of Chicago, Jay Warren, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 5, 2011
Hypnotizing Uday Hussein

A Chicagoan fondly remembers his time in the service of Saddam's son in this 2005 story by Grant Pick.
- by Sam Worley
- Tags: Film, Grant Pick, Saddam Hussein, Uday Hussein, The Devil's Double, Andrea Gronvall, Larry Garrett, hypnotism

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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

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 29, 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, Shout! Factory, Ernie Kovacs, Andrea Gronvall, Incendies, Ben Sachs, Stake Land, American: The Bill Hicks Story, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Werner Herzog, Fast Five, Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Forget Me Not movie, Henry's Crime, Keanu Reeves, The Kids Grow Up, Doug Block, 51 Birch Street, Madea's Big Happy Family, Tyler Perry Queen of the Sun, Uncle Kent, Joe Swanberg, Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen, Terence Malick, Badlands movie, Andre de Toth, Day of the Outlaw, Robert Ryan, Portage, Rene Laloux, Fantastic Planet, Lincoln Hall, Chris Marker, La Jetee, Terry Gilliam, 12 Monkeys, University of Chicago Doc Films, Luchino Visconti, The Leopard movie, Gene Siskel Film Center; Terence Davies, The Long Day Closes, Block Museum of Art, Sergei Eisenstein, Potemkin, Pritzker Military Library, Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo, movies., Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 10, 2011
Yo, Teach!

Reader contributor Andrea Gronvall lectures on contemporary Scandinavian films at University of Chicago's Graham School of General Studies.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Andrea Gronvall, Scandinavian filmmakers, University of Chicago Graham School of General Studies, Scandinavian Film Beyond Bergman: Dragon Tattoos and Midnight Suns, Erik Skjoldbjaerg, Insomnia, Roy Andersson, Songs From the Second Floor, Thomas Vinterberg, The Celebration, Aki Kaurismaki, The Man Without a Past, Bent Hamer, O'Horten, Niels Arden Oplev, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Baltasar Kormakur, Jar City, Susanne Bier, After the Wedding, Lukas Moodysson Together, Tomas Alfredson, Let the Right One In, continung education, film studies, movies

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 11, 2011
Now Playing: Gnomeo & Juliet

Andrea Gronvall reviews the new feather-length animation from Disney's Touchstone Pictures.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Andrea Gronvall, Walt Disney, Touchstone Pictures, William Shakespeare, Montague, James McAvoy, Capulet, Emily Blunt, Elton John, Kelly Asbury, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith, Patrick Stewart, Ozzy Osbourne, 3D animation, children’s movies

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 4, 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, en Sachs, The Housemaid, Im Sang-soo, The President's Last Bang, A Good Lawyer's Wife, Andrea Gronvall, Louder Than a Bomb, Gene Siskel Film Center, Greg Jacobs, Jon Siskel, Breath Kim Ki-duk, 3-Iron Kim Ki-duk, Spring Summer Fall Winter . . . and Spring Kim Ki-duk, Lemmy 49% Motherf**cker 51% Son of a Bitch, Lemmy Kilmister, Motorhead, The Regretters, The Devilles, Chicago Filmmakers, The Wild Triumphs of Martha Colburn, Luchino Visconti, The Leopard, Martin Scorsese, Giuseppe Rotunno, Georges Franju, Eyes Without a Face, Howard Hawks, Gentlemen Prefer Blonds, Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Goodfellas, Elvis Presley, Jailhouse Rock, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Sound Opinions, Music Box, W.C. Fields, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, Ernst Lubitsch, One Hour With You, Northbrook Public Library;, Satyajit Ray, Pather Panchali, Roberto Rossellini, Stromboli, Ingrid Bergman, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 4, 2011
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Now Playing: Sanctum

Andrea Gronvall reviews the new underwater adventure from producer James Cameron.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Andrea Gronvall, James Cameron, Richard Roxburgh, Ioan Gruffudd, Papua, New Guinea, Rhys Wakefield, Avatar, action movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 27, 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, D.W. Griffith, American Revolution, University of Chicago Doc Films, Andrea Gronvall, Biutiful, Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu, Amores Perros, 21 Grams, Babel Innaritu, Javier Bardem, Vivienne Dick, Gene Siskel Film Center, Family Affair, Koolhaas Houselife, Rem Koolhaas, The Mechanic Jason Statham, Charles Bronson, Nora's Will, Queen of the Sun, Taggart Siegel, The Real Dirt on Farmer John, The Rite Anthony Hopkins, The Secret to a Happy Ending, Drive-By Truckers, Strongman, Stanless Steel, A Useful Life, Claude Lanzmann, Shoah, Ernst Lubitsch, Cluny Brown, Block Museum of Art, Norman Lear, Cold Turkey, Rob Christopher, Cine-File, George Cukor, Gaslight, Music Box, Roman Polanski Repulsion, So This Is Paris, Northbook Public Library, Alejandro Jodorowsky, El Topo, Logan Square International Film Series, Chicago movies, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 6, 2010
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Now Playing: The Warrior's Way

Andrea Gronvall reviews the new ninja western The Warrior's Way.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Andrea Gronvall, Jang Dong-gun, Danny Huston, Geoffrey Rush, Kate Bosworth, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 23, 2010
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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, Death at a Funeral, Chris Rock, Andrea Gronvall, Secret in Their Eyes, Chicago Latino Film Festival, Cliff Doerksen, Joshua Katzman, Peter Margasak, Back-up Plan, Jennifer Lopez, Everything Strange and New, Frazer Bradshaw, The Losers, Zoe Saldana, Jason Patric, Pomegranates and Myrrh, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, Rebuilding Hope, 22 Years From Home, Lost Boys of Sudan, A Shine of Rainbows, Aidan Quinn, Connie Nielsen, Soundtrack for a Revolution, John Legend, Wyclef Jean, Joss Stone, Richie Havens, the Roots, Blind Boys of Alabama, Otto Preminger, Bunny Lake Is Missing, Northbrook Public Library, Ang Lee, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Gene Siskel Film Center, I'm No Angel, Mae West, Bank of America Cinema, Louis Malle, Vanya on 42nd Street, Doc Films, film festivals, movies., Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 3, 2010
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Reader Contributors Hit the Road

Reader contributors Andrea Gronvall and Ed M. Koziarski make personal appearances this week in the suburbs.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Ed M. Koziarski, Lake County Film Festival, Junko Kajino, First Breath of Tengan Rei, College of Lake County, Andrea Gronvall, Elmhurst College, Poverty on the Silver Screen, Schaible Science Center, John Ford, Grapes of Wrath, Sydney Pollack, They Shoot Horses Don’t They, Martin Scorsese, Gangs of New York, Kelly Reichardt, Wendy and Lucy, Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan, Slumdog Millionaire, Chicago Reader, film festivals, film series, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 26, 2010
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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, Andrea Gronvall, North Face, Nordwande, Music Box, Peace on Earth Film Festival, Chicago Cultural Center, Kevin Smith, Cop Out, Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, District 13: Ultimatum, Luc Besson, Roman Polanski, The Ghost Writer, Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, House Nobuhiko Obayashi, Unmade Beds, Visit Ingrid Bergman, The Wedding Song, Fritz Lang, Clash by Night, David Cronenberg, eXistenZ, Doc Films, John Ford, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Louis Malle, Vanya on 42nd Street, Fred Camper, Christopher Maclaine, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Material and Code, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 25, 2010
2/26—Free North Face Screening at REI

REI (1466 N. Halsted) hosts a free screening of North Face on Fri 2/26 at 6:30 PM.
- by Sam Worley
- Tags: Film, Free Shit, Swag, North Face, REI, Whole Foods, Andrea Gronvall, Philipp Stölzl, free movies, free screenings

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 6, 2009
Madam, I'm Adam
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Cliff Doerksen, Max Mayer, Adam movie, Adam Hugh Dancy, Adam Max Mayer, Hugh Dancy, Asperger's syndrome, Rose Byrne, Black Harvest International Film and Video Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Andrea Gronvall, The Seed, Scarred Justice: The Orangeburg Massacre 1968, Orangeburg massacre, The Nine Lives of Marion Barry, Marion Barry, Scott Hamilton Kennedy, The Garden, Scott Hamilotn Kennedy Garden, South Central Los Angeles, Revanche, Rumba, The Answer Man, Jeff Daniels, The Cove, In Sickness and In Health, In My Father's Church, Irene in Time, Henry Jaglom, Julie & Julia, Meryl Streep, Julia Child, Paper Heart, Michael Cera, Brighton Rock, Graham Greene, Busby Berkeley, Footlight Parade, James Cagney, Girl Shy, Harold Lloyd, Silent Summer Film Festival, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin, Pather Panchali, Satyajit Ray, Alfred Hitchcock, Hitchcock Psycho, Grant Park, Rear Window, Northbrook Public Library, movies, Chicago movies, film festivals

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A preview of movies playing in Chicago from January 6 - 12.

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Steve James's acclaimed documentary The Interrupters is passed over for Oscar consideration.

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Andrea Gronvall reviews the futuristic sci-fi thriller from director Andrew Niccols.

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

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A Chicagoan fondly remembers his time in the service of Saddam's son in this 2005 story by Grant Pick.

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

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

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Reader contributor Andrea Gronvall lectures on contemporary Scandinavian films at University of Chicago's Graham School of General Studies.

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Andrea Gronvall reviews the new feather-length animation from Disney's Touchstone Pictures.

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

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Andrea Gronvall reviews the new underwater adventure from producer James Cameron.

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

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Andrea Gronvall reviews the new ninja western The Warrior's Way.

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

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Reader contributors Andrea Gronvall and Ed M. Koziarski make personal appearances this week in the suburbs.

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

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REI (1466 N. Halsted) hosts a free screening of North Face on Fri 2/26 at 6:30 PM.

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