- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 18, 2013
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A neglected Chicago filmmaker gets his due, and the rest of this week's screenings
Previewing new releases and notable revival screenings playing in town between January 18 and 24
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 11, 2013
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The birth of cinema verite, and the rest of this week's movies
Previewing notable film screenings in Chicago from January 11-17
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 7, 2013
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Lawrence of Arabia versus Tess: Looking up and looking around
Comparing two historical epics to have recently screened in new DCP restorations
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 4, 2013
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Controversy in action, and the rest of this week's movies
A rundown of Chicago film screenings for the week of January 4
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 30, 2012
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Reader's Agenda Sun 12/30: Neurosis, a servants' tour, and Lawrence of Arabia
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, December 30, 2012
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 28, 2012
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Thomas Mann, film critic
What might the author of Death in Venice have had to say about Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master?
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 8, 2012
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Reader's Agenda, Sat 12/8: Christmas bar crawl, Oliver Twist, and Young Jeezy
What's on the Agenda for Saturday, December 8, 2012
- Movies, Movie Review, Dec 5, 2012
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The thin blue lie in The Central Park Five
A new documentary revisits the Central Park rape that sent five innocent men to jail
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 26, 2012
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Tron, in 70-millimeter and in your head
Revisiting the pioneering effects of Disney's 1982 sci-fi film
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 12, 2012
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It's a clown's world in Holy Motors, Life Without Principle, and Pierre Étaix
Reconsidering the clownish antics of three works in light of the latest Trap Door Theatre production
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 11, 2012
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Chicago to host two more marathons . . . of horror
Previewing 24-hour horror marathons at the Music Box and the Portage Theater
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 20, 2012
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The Telephone Book: an X-rated comedy sees the light of day
Previewing the 1971 underground comedy, which screens this weekend at the Music Box Theatre
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 12, 2012
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Loss in The Crowd
Questioning the moral foundation of King Vidor's silent classic
- 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
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 31, 2012
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Focusing on the family in two new horror movies
Comparing visions of middle-class stability in The Possession and The Apparition
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 24, 2012
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Thank you, Foster Hirsch
What I gained from attending this year's Noir City series at the Music Box Theatre
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 22, 2012
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Conversion conversations: Doug McLaren, head projectionist at the Music Box Theatre
The Music Box Theatre's head projectionist talks about the conversion to digital cinema and explains how DCP projection works
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 15, 2012
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André Téchiné's Unforgivable: every person is a tracking shot
In praise of the latest feature by one of France's greatest directors
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 9, 2012
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The orgiast: an interview with Joe Dante (part two)
The second part of an interview with the director of Gremlins 2: The New Batch and The Movie Orgy
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 8, 2012
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The orgiast: an interview with Joe Dante (part one)
The first part of a long interview with the director of Gremlins, Small Soldiers, and Looney Tunes: Back in Action
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