Chicago Reader

Tools

Blogs, Bleader, Apr 5, 2012
Yes, do let them (or, Wilder at heart)

Considering the similarities between Chinese actor-director Jiang Wen (whose Let the Bullets Fly just opened in Chicago) and the great Billy Wilder
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Film, Comedy, Jiang Wen, Billy Wilder, Let the Bullets Fly, Devils at the Doorstep, Judd Apatow, Some Like It Hot, Avanti!, Funny People, 21 Jump Street

Tools

Blogs, Bleader, Feb 24, 2012
Video
Now showing: Wanderlust

Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston are New Yorkers experiencing a hippie commune in the latest from Role Models director David Wain
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Paul Rudd, Jennifer Aniston, Judd Apatow, David Wain, Role Models, Wet Hot American Summer, movies, Video

Tools

Blogs, Bleader, Dec 26, 2011
Video
Best of 2011, number 2: Bridesmaids

J.R. Jones on Bridesmaids, his second-favorite film of 2011.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Judd Apatow, Annie Hall, Frank Capra, You Can't Take It With You, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Funny People, Kristen Wiig, Saturday Night Live, Bridesmaids, Paul Feig, Freaks and Geeks, Annie Mumalo, Thelma Todd, ZaSu Pitts, Patsy Kelly, movies, Video

Tools

Blogs, Bleader, Dec 12, 2011
Not in theaters: Kenneth Lonergan's Margaret

A reflection on Kenneth Lonergan's Margaret and the Judd Apatow-produced comedy Bridesmaids.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Kenneth Lonergan, Margaret, Anna Paquin, Judd Apatow, Bridesmaids, Paul Feig, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Albert Brooks, J.R. Jones, improv comedy, alternative comedy, film editing, atheism, J. Camerson-Smith, pillow shots

Tools

Blogs, Bleader, May 12, 2011
Video
This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Universal Pictures, Bridesmaids, Judd Apatow, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Superbad, Funny People, Albert Brooks, The Double Hour, Meeks' Cutoff, Kelly Reichardt, Wendy and Lucy, Coming Back for More, Sly Stone, The Devil's Trap, Frantisek Vlacil, Everything Must Go, Raymond Carver, Will Ferrell, Forks Over Knives, Hesher, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Make Believe, World Magic Seminar, Mia and the Migoo, Twelve Thirty movie, Josef von Sternberg, Dishonored, Portage theater, Clara Bow, It movie, It Clara Bow, Music Box, Charlie Chaplin, The Kid movie, The Kid Chaplin, Gene Siskel Film Center, Wim Wenders, King of the Road, Block Museum of Art, Alfred Hitchcock, Marnie movie, Marnie Hitchcock, University of Chicago Doc Films, Fritz Lang, Metropolis movie, Metropolis Fritz Lang, Charles Burnett, My Brother's Wedding, Peter Pan movie, Wilmette theater, Bela Tarr, Satantango, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Terrence Malick, The Thin Red Line, Music Box, Oscar Micheaux, Within Our Gates, movies, Video

Tools

Movies, Movie Review, May 12, 2011
Funny Girls

With Bridesmaids, Kristen Wiig and company crash the boys' club of big-screen comedy
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Bridesmaids, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Paul Feig, Rose Byrne, Judd Apatow, Annie Mumolo, Melissa McCarthy, Ellie Kemper, Wendi McLendon-Covey

Tools

Blogs, Bleader, Apr 25, 2008
Here we go again . . .

Forgetting Sarah's easy ... but what about Wong Kar-wai?
- by Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, Judd Apatow, Sex Is Comedy, Catherine Breillat, Bruno Dumont, Wong Kar-wai, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, My Blueberry Nights, Jonah Hill, Natalie Portman, Norman Foster, Journey Into Fear, Twentynine Palms, Zabriskie Point

Tools

Blogs, Bleader, Apr 2, 2008
Without a trace

What ever happened to John Hughes?
- by Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, Judd Apatow, GreenCine Daily, Dogma, John Hughes, LA Times, Kevin Smith, J.D. Salinger, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Drillbit Taylor, Owen Wilson, Northbrook, Illinois, Shermer, Illinois, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Tools

Blogs, Bleader, Dec 9, 2007
Make mine music

John C. Reilly plays the Cubby Bear to beat the drum for Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.
- by Andrea Gronvall
- Tags: Film, Judd Apatow, Across the Universe, Julie Taymor, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, John C. Reilly, Cox Across America, Jake Kasdan, Once, Enchanted, Hairspray, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, movie musicals, Oscar, Golden Globes

Tools

Blogs, Bleader, Oct 16, 2007
Follow that bird

What robins, sparrows, and pigeons have to tell us about the movies
- by Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, Judd Apatow, How I Got Into College, Savage Steve Holland, Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange, Catastrophe theory, Birding

Tools

Blogs, Bleader, Sep 19, 2007
That's not funny

A good "movie-movie" comedy is hard to find.
- by Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, Brand Upon the Brain!, Knocked Up, Judd Apatow, Aki Kaurismaki, Lights in the Dusk, Sex Is Comedy, Catherine Breillat, Anne Parillaud, Sarah Silverman, Rob Zombie, The Forty-Year-Old Virgin, Superbad, Delirious, Fay Grim, White telephone movie

Tools

Blogs, Bleader, Jun 29, 2007
Apatow on abortion

Judd Apatow releases the missing abortion debate scene from "Knocked Up."
- by Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, Abortion, Knocked Up, Judd Apatow

Tools

Blogs, Bleader, Jun 18, 2007
Silence = birth

What Judd Apatow's Knocked Up doesn't want you to think about.
- by Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, Knocked Up, Judd Apatow, Carl Dreyer, Gertrud, Keri Russell, Waitress

Tools

Blogs, Bleader, Jun 12, 2007
Knock, knock . . .

High comedy or low? You be the judge.
- by Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, Knocked Up, Judd Apatow, 3 Men and a Cradle, Rebecca Eckler

Browse News & Politics

Browse Music

Browse Film

Browse Arts & Culture

Browse Food & Drink

Browse The Bleader

Browse Classifieds

Browse Rentals

You searched for:

Search for…

Narrow Search

Category

Author

Year

Show only

Other Searches

Showing:

Tools

Today's 12 O'Clock Track is D'Angelo's sensual stunner "Send It On," from his acclaimed album Voodoo

Tools

Presents opened? Christmas dinner consumed? Looking for something to do?

Tools

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Tools

What's on the Agenda for Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Tools

Where have all the male role models gone?

Tools

I finally had a chance to sit down with Cinema Scope magazine's 50th issue

Tools

Considering the similarities between Chinese actor-director Jiang Wen (whose Let the Bullets Fly just opened in Chicago) and the great Billy Wilder

Tools

Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston are New Yorkers experiencing a hippie commune in the latest from Role Models director David Wain

Tools

J.R. Jones on Bridesmaids, his second-favorite film of 2011.

Tools

A reflection on Kenneth Lonergan's Margaret and the Judd Apatow-produced comedy Bridesmaids.

Tools

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

Tools

With Bridesmaids, Kristen Wiig and company crash the boys' club of big-screen comedy

Tools

Forgetting Sarah's easy ... but what about Wong Kar-wai?

Tools

What ever happened to John Hughes?

Tools

John C. Reilly plays the Cubby Bear to beat the drum for Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.

Tools

What robins, sparrows, and pigeons have to tell us about the movies

Tools

A good "movie-movie" comedy is hard to find.

Tools

Judd Apatow releases the missing abortion debate scene from "Knocked Up."

Tools

What Judd Apatow's Knocked Up doesn't want you to think about.

Tools

High comedy or low? You be the judge.

FEATURED CLASSIFIED