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News & Politics, Politics Jan 25, 2019
Aldermen Goodfellas

Mayoral candidate Bill Daley’s proposed City Council cuts don’t sound so bad with aldermen talking like mobsters.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Politics, Politics, Danny Solis, Ed Burke, Rodney Sawyer, Matt O’Shea, Ameya Pawar, Robert De Niro, Jimmy Conway, Goodfellas, Chicago City Council, Rahm Emanuel, Bill Daley, Pat Quinn, Mrs. Maisel

Blogs, Bleader Jul 16, 2018
Rauner showers praise on Mike Pence, leaving no doubt how he feels about gay marriage

"Mike Pence, along with President Trump, are doing it for every American right now," our governor says.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: News, Politics, Bruce Rauner, gay marriage, Illinois Review, Mike Pence, Donald Trump, Indiana, Illinois, J.B. Pritzker, Sam McCann, W.H. Auden, Funeral Blues, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Goodfellas, Barack Obama

Film, Movie Review Jan 4, 2017
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Silence isn’t un-Scorsese—it’s very Scorsese

The director’s latest is cerebral, stoic, and tranquil, but it still shares much in common with his other films.
- By Tal Rosenberg
- Tags: Movie Review, Silence movie, Martin Scorsese, The Last Temptation of Christ, Kundun, The Wolf of Wall Street, Kim Allen Kluge, Kathryn Kluge, Goodfellas, Shusaku Endo, Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson, Shimabara Rebellion, Tokugawa shogunate, Yôsuke Kubozuka, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, The Departed, Issei Ogata, Casino movie, Recommended, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 29, 2016
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Son of Saul opens at Music Box, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Laszlo Nemes, Son of Saul, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Anesthesia movie, Kristen Stewart, Sam Waterston, Gretchen Mol, Michael K. Williams, Tim Blake Nelson, The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young, Frozen Head State Park, Cemetery of Splendor, Mekong Hotel, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, The 5th Wave, Chloe Grace Moretz, The Finest Hours, Hou Hsiao-hsien, The Assassin, Ronit Bezalel, 70 Acres in Chicago: Cabrini Green, Carl Reiner, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Martin Scorsese, Goodfellas, Fred Zinnemann, Julia movie, Charlie Chaplin, The Kid, John Stahl, Leave Her to Heaven, Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, On the Town, Seijun Suzuki, Pistol Opera, Steve James, Stevie movie, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 30, 2015
Cultural moments of 1990 revisited by someone born in 1990

In anticipation of the Chicago Humanities Festival program "Year in Review: 1990," a writer looks back at moments from the year of her birth.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Lit & Lectures, Chicago Humanities Festival, 1990, Twin Peaks, Pretty Woman, Hold On, Wilson Phillips, Web browser, Thunderstruck, Goodfellas, Law & Order, Milli Vanilli, Bridesmaids, Lip Sync Battle, Spike, WBEZ

Film, Movie Review Jul 9, 2014
Blood Ties and Gambit: Two genre films for the grown-ups

Both feature name actors—and both have been marginalized by distributors. Is there no place for serious American cinema?
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Blood Ties, Guillaume Canet, Gambit, Michael Hoffman, James Gray, The Immigrant, Gene Siskel Film Center, Cannes Film Festival, Weinstein Company, Darius Khondji, Happy Massee, Harvey Weinstein, Jim Jarmusch, Dead Man, 12 Years a Slave, Nebraska, Her, Indiewire, Raging Bull, Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, genre cinema, Mean Streets, GoodFellas, James Caan, Abel Ferrara, Tell No One, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Michael Caine, Shirley MacLaine, Joel and Ethan Coen, The Ladykillers, Colin Firth, Alan Rickman, Cameron Diaz, Chef, Think Like a Man Too, Vladimir Nabokov, Despair, Laughter in the Dark

Blogs, Bleader Aug 19, 2013
Reader's Agenda Mon 8/19: Richard Buckner, Porn and Chicken, and GoodFellas

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Monday, August 19
- By Tosten Burks
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Richard Buckner, Schuba's, Porn and Chicken, Evil Olive, Martin Scorsese, GoodFellas, Jonathan Rosenbaum

Blogs, Bleader May 26, 2013
Weekly Top Five: What's in the frame and what's out—the best of Martin Scorsese

Weekly top five: Martin Scorsese films
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver, Doc Films, New Hollywood, Shutter Island, The Departed, Hugo, Taxi Driver, Michael Powell, Steven Spielberg, Jaws, Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now, My Voyage to Italy, Roberto Rossellini, Goodfellas, Casino, The King of Comedy, Dave Kehr, Juliette Lewis, New York City

Film, Movie Review May 1, 2013
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Pain & Gain wants to kick your ass

Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson star in Michael Bay's satire of the American dream.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Paul Verhoeven, Showgirls, Jacques Rivette, Michael Bay, Pain & Gain, Miami, Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie, Bad Boys, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Transformers, Tony Shalhoub, GoodFellas, Horatio Alger, Ken Jeong

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

Blogs, Bleader Feb 4, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable films in this week's Chicago Reader.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Beeswax, Andrew Bujalski, Funny Ha Ha, Mutual Appreciation, Gene Siskel Film Center, Fish Tank, Andrea Arnold, Red Road, The Last Station, Leo Tolstoy, Christopher Plummer, Paul Giamatti, James McAvoy, Kerry Condon, Helen, Black Mail, Hurt McDermott, Dear John, Amanda Seyfried, Channing Tatum, Edge of Darkness, Mel Gibson, From Paris With Love, John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Frozen, Open Water, Lady Terminator, Facets Night School, Mystery Team, Music Box, The Necessities of Life, Ward No. 6, Anton Chekhov, When in Rome, Kristen Bell, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Luis Bunuel, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Doc Films, Martin Scorsese, Goodfellas, Northbrook Public Library, Jacques Tati, Jour de Fete, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, Erich von Stroheim, Queen Kelly, John Ford, The Quiet Man, Buster Keaton, Sherlock Jr., Chicago Symphony Ochestra, movies, Video

News & Politics, Our Town Oct 8, 2009
The Making of a Chicago Outfit

How six recent Columbia College grads got Hollywood muscle to help them make their mob movie
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Our Town, Chicago Overcoat, Beverly Ridge Pictures, Brian Caunter, Frank Vincent, Mike Starr, Armand Assante, John Bosher, Chris Charles, Kevin Moss, JoAnne Moss, Kathrine Narducci, Stacy Keach, Chicago International Film Festival, Italic Institute of America, Bill Dal Cerro, The Sopranos, Goodfellas, River East 21

Blogs, Bleader Mar 2, 2007
Running on empty

Is The Departed the film of a director on his last legs? At least one critic seems to think so.
- By Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, The Departed, Tony Scott, 79th Annual Academy Awards, Martin Scorsese, Mean Streets, GoodFellas, The Age of Innocence, Kundun, Michael Mann, Bodhisattva

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Aldermen Goodfellas

Mayoral candidate Bill Daley’s proposed City Council cuts don’t sound so bad with aldermen talking like mobsters.

Rauner showers praise on Mike Pence, leaving no doubt how he feels about gay marriage

"Mike Pence, along with President Trump, are doing it for every American right now," our governor says.

Recommended Video
Silence isn’t un-Scorsese—it’s very Scorsese

The director’s latest is cerebral, stoic, and tranquil, but it still shares much in common with his other films.

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Son of Saul opens at Music Box, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Cultural moments of 1990 revisited by someone born in 1990

In anticipation of the Chicago Humanities Festival program "Year in Review: 1990," a writer looks back at moments from the year of her birth.

Blood Ties and Gambit: Two genre films for the grown-ups

Both feature name actors—and both have been marginalized by distributors. Is there no place for serious American cinema?

Reader's Agenda Mon 8/19: Richard Buckner, Porn and Chicken, and GoodFellas

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Monday, August 19

Weekly Top Five: What's in the frame and what's out—the best of Martin Scorsese

Weekly top five: Martin Scorsese films

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Pain & Gain wants to kick your ass

Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson star in Michael Bay's satire of the American dream.

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This Week's Movie Action

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

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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable films in this week's Chicago Reader.

The Making of a Chicago Outfit

How six recent Columbia College grads got Hollywood muscle to help them make their mob movie

Running on empty

Is The Departed the film of a director on his last legs? At least one critic seems to think so.

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Mayoral candidate Bill Daley’s proposed City Council cuts don’t sound so bad with aldermen talking like mobsters.

"Mike Pence, along with President Trump, are doing it for every American right now," our governor says.

The director’s latest is cerebral, stoic, and tranquil, but it still shares much in common with his other films.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

In anticipation of the Chicago Humanities Festival program "Year in Review: 1990," a writer looks back at moments from the year of her birth.

Both feature name actors—and both have been marginalized by distributors. Is there no place for serious American cinema?

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Monday, August 19

Weekly top five: Martin Scorsese films

Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson star in Michael Bay's satire of the American dream.

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

New reviews and notable films in this week's Chicago Reader.

How six recent Columbia College grads got Hollywood muscle to help them make their mob movie

Is The Departed the film of a director on his last legs? At least one critic seems to think so.

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