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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 10, 2012
Our awesome B Side cover from concept to color

See how Jeremy Wheeler made our awesome B Side cover on John Carpenter's music
- by Asher Klein
- Tags: Behind Our Scenes, Music, Jeremy Wheeler, illustrations, John Carpenter, drawing, yowza

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 9, 2012
John Carpenter, Lollapalooza celebrities, old-school death metal, and more on the B Side

Horror music, Lolla sightings, old-school death metal, and more
- by Miles Raymer
- Tags: Music, John Carpenter, Jeremy Wheeler, Chris Farley, Paul McCartney, Lollapalooza, Mahjongg, Robert Petway, Shame That Tune, Huey Lewis & the News, Jan Terri, Master, Paul Speckmann

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 9, 2012
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Joe Dante's fully clothed orgy, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, John Carpenter, Joe Dante, W.C. Fields, It's a Gift, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Steven Spielberg, Gremlins movie, Matinee movie, Small Soldiers, The Hole movie, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, The Movie Orgy, Ben Sachs, Ann Hui, A Simple Life, Facets Cinematheque, Ballplayer: Pelotero, The Bourne Legacy, Jeremy Renner, Matt Damon, The Campaign movie, Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, Celeste and Jesse Forever, Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, The Curators of Dixon School, Hope Springs, Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Kumare movie, Vikram Gandhi, Searching for Sugar Man, Surviving Life (Theory and Practice), Jan Svankmajer, Unforgivable movie, Andre Techine, Wolf, Lotte Reiniger, The Adventures of Prince Achmed, Music Box, Dennis Scott, David Lynch, Blue Velvet, Landmark’s Century Centre, William Friedkin, s The French Connection, Paul Wegener, The Golem, University of Chicago Doc Films, Yasujiro Ozu, A Hen in the Wind, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Charles Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux, Flashback Weekend, The Thing movie, The Exorcist, Linda Blair, film festivals, movies, Video

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Music, Music Feature, Aug 8, 2012
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Every day is Halloween

Decades later, John Carpenter's classic film scores make their influence felt in electronic dance music
- by Miles Raymer
- Tags: Music Feature, John Carpenter, film scores, scoring, Hans Zimmer, Philip Glass, horror movies, experimental classical music, digital classical music, Laurie Spiegel, Giorgio Moroder, music composition, synthesizer, Com Truise, Mogi Grumbles, Gatekeeper, Aaron David Ross, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 7, 2012
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Goblin goes for the gold

Vintage avant-garde psychedelic horror-movie music goes to the Olympics
- by Miles Raymer
- Tags: Paranormal, Music, John Carpenter, Goblin, Dario Argento, Raekwon, Neon Indian, Justice, Umberto, the Olympics, WTF, Russia, synchronized swimming, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 4, 2012
12 O'Clock Track: Gatekeeper, "Tree Drum"

Gloomy Chicagoans become cyberpunky New Yorkers
- by Miles Raymer
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Gatekeeper, John Carpenter, Mondo 2000, electronic dance music, cyberpunk, Hackers, HDBoyz

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 15, 2011
Now Playing: The Thing

Ben Sachs reviews the new prequel to John Carpenter's 1982 horror flick.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Ben Sachs, The Thing, John Carpenter, Howard Hawks, Matthijs van Heijningen Jr., Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, horror movies

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 13, 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, Jonathan Rosenbaum, List-o-Mania, Cinema Borealis, Pedro Costa, Change Nothing, Chicago International Film Festival, Alexander Payne, Election movie, About Schmidt, Sideways movie, Mia Hansen-Love, Father of My Children movie, Lynne Ramsay, Ratcatcher movie, Movern Callar, Beloved Sky, From No. 37, Gene Siskel Film Center, Festival of Films From Iran, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, Blackthorn movie, Butch Cassidy, Sam Shepard, Footloose movie, Happy Happy, Limelight movie, Peter Gatien, Lowlands movie, Johannes Vermeer, Peter Thompson, Shut Up Little Man!, Jan Svankmajer, Alice movie, Comfort Station, Tod Browning, Dracula, University of Chicago Doc Films, John Carpenter, Halloween movie, Valery Todorovsky, Hipsters movie, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Jacques Tourneur, I Walked With a Zombie, Facets Night School, Kelly Reichardt, Meek's Cutoff, Mark Robson, The Seventh Victim, Kimberly Peirce, Boys Don't Cry, Stop-Loss movie, Music Box, The Film That Changed My Life, The Godfather, Music Box Massacre, Waxworks, Herschell Gordon Lewis, The Wizard of Gore, Burn Witch Burn, Hour of the Wolf, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Poltergeist, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 1, 2010
How's This Grab Ya?

Landsharks ahoy!
- by Cliff Doerksen
- Tags: Film, Horror, comedy, John Carpenter, The Thing, Jack Sholder, The Hidden, Kathryn Bigelow, Near Dark, Greydon Clark, Without Warning, Adam Simon, Brain Dead, Stuart Gordon, From Beyond, Joe Dante, Ed Wood, Ron Underwood, Tremors, Kevin Bacon, Jaws, Nevada, Fred Ward, Dune, Frank Herbert

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 15, 2009
Killer Jams

Gatekeeper in Sharp Darts
- by Miles Raymer
- Tags: Crickets, Music, Gatekeeper, Chicago, electronic music, Sharp Darts, John Carpenter, Goblin

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Music, Music Column, Oct 15, 2009
Dance Macabre

The electronic duo Gatekeeper looks to the classic slasher soundtrack for inspiration.
- by Miles Raymer
- Tags: Music Column, Gatekeeper, Matthew Arkell, Aaron David Ross, Kompakt, Fright Records, Optimus Maximus, electronic music, horror music, Fabio Frizzi, Goblin, John Carpenter, Halloween, Mark Shreeve, industrial, electronic body music, EBM, synthesizers, digital synthesizers, Ensoniq SQ1, Yamaha DX7, Oberheim Matrix 6

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Movies, Movie Review, Sep 24, 2009
A Supernatural Bitch

How exactly is Diablo Cody's update of the rape-revenge shocker "feminist"?
- by Noah Berlatsky
- Tags: Movie Review, Jennifer's Body, Megan Fox, Meir Zarchi, I Spit on Your Grave, Abel Ferrara, Ms. 45, Diablo Cody, Juno, Karyn Kusama, Girlfight, John Carpenter, Christine, Brian De Palma, Carrie, Adam Brody, Amanda Seyfried, Johnny Simmons, Quentin Tarantino

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Blogs, Bleader, Jun 26, 2009
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I left my heart in the 400 Theater, and my gum under the seat

The long-shuttered Village North in Rogers Park reopens tonight as the New 400 Theater. Plus this week's new movie reviews.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Rogers Park, Movies, Gene Siskel Film Center, John Carpenter, Alfred Hitchcock, Facets Cinematheque, Burlesque, Michael Cera, Max Ophuls, In a Dream, Letter From an Unknown Woman, The Earrings of Madame de..., The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, The Hangover, Harold Ramis, Year One, Up, Village North Theater, 400 Theater, Rogers Park Chicago, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Tony Fox, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Big Man Japan, Atomic monster movies, Japanese monster movies, Cheri Collete, Stephen Frears, Michelle Pfeiffer, Isaiah Zagar, Jeremiah Zagar, My Sister's Keeper, Jeremy Leven, Nick Cassavetes, The Notebook, The Stoning of Soraya N., Whatever Works, Woody Allen, A Wink and a Smile, Jack Black, Dark Star, Family Plot, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 23, 2008
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Zombie Zombie and zombies

A brilliant fan-made stop-action music video for Zombie Zombie's "Driving This Road Until Death" on YouTube
- by Miles Raymer
- Tags: Music, Crickets, Video, John Carpenter, Zombie Zombie, fan-made, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 25, 2007
Blaze of gory

The better half of Grindhouse might not be the one you'd expect.
- by Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, Pere Portabella, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Grindhouse, Guy Maddin, Planet Terror, John Carpenter, Mario Bava, George Romero, Busby Berkeley, From Dusk Till Dawn

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A roundup of local screenings happening this week

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See how Jeremy Wheeler made our awesome B Side cover on John Carpenter's music

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Horror music, Lolla sightings, old-school death metal, and more

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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Decades later, John Carpenter's classic film scores make their influence felt in electronic dance music

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Vintage avant-garde psychedelic horror-movie music goes to the Olympics

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Gloomy Chicagoans become cyberpunky New Yorkers

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Ben Sachs reviews the new prequel to John Carpenter's 1982 horror flick.

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

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Landsharks ahoy!

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Gatekeeper in Sharp Darts

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The electronic duo Gatekeeper looks to the classic slasher soundtrack for inspiration.

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How exactly is Diablo Cody's update of the rape-revenge shocker "feminist"?

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The long-shuttered Village North in Rogers Park reopens tonight as the New 400 Theater. Plus this week's new movie reviews.

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A brilliant fan-made stop-action music video for Zombie Zombie's "Driving This Road Until Death" on YouTube

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The better half of Grindhouse might not be the one you'd expect.

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