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Movie Review
Jun 14, 2018
Upgrade
is so derivative, it’s original
Horror director Leigh Whannell rips off so many other movies that his new feature becomes a collage.
By Ben Sachs
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Upgrade movie
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Leigh Whannell
,
Brian De Palma
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Hi, Mom!
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Phantom of the Paradise
,
Takashi Miike
,
Fudoh: The New Generation
,
The Happiness of the Katakuris
,
Logan Marshall-Green
,
Melanie Vallejo
,
David Cronenberg
,
eXistenZ
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Spike Jonze Her
,
Mi
Blogs
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Bleader
Mar 9, 2018
You probably missed
Blade of the Immortal
when it played here, but now you can catch it on DVD and BluRay
Takashi Miike's thrilling 2017 action fantasy is worth seeking out.
By Ben Sachs
Tags:
Film
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Foreign
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On Video
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Blade of the Immortal
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Takashi Miike
,
Jeremy Thomas
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13 Assassins
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Hara-Kiri
,
manga
,
Visitor Q
,
Ichi the Killer
,
The Great Yokai War
,
Zebraman
,
Audition
,
Imprint
,
Dead or Alive
,
Shinjuku Triad Society
,
The Negotiator
,
Izo
,
Big Bang Love: Juvenile A
,
Detective Story
,
Takuya Kimura
,
Hana Sugisaki
,
Akira Kurosawa
,
Hiroaki Samura
Blogs
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Bleader
Oct 9, 2015
Video
Life on Mars
, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
By J.R. Jones
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Opening
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Ridley Scott
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The Martian
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Matt Damon
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Yakuza Apocalypse
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Takashi Miike
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Big Stone Gap
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Ashley Judd
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Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
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National Lampoon
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The Fool movie
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Freeheld
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Julianne Moore
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He Named Me Malala
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Malala Yousafzai
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Nobel Peace Prize
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Labyrinth of Lies
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Pan movie
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Hugh Jackman
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Rooney Mara
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Spring Night Summer Night
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Leo McCarey
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The Awful Truth
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Buster Keaton
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Battling Butler
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Dennis Scott
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George Roy Hill
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
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Anthony Mann
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Men in War
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Luis Bunuel
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Los Olvidados
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Fred Camper
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Eric Rohmer
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Pauline at the Beach
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Archie Mayo
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The Petrified Forest
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Gordon Parks
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Shaft
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Ingmar Bergman
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Smiles of a Summer Night
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Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World
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Global Girls Film Fest
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Heart Like a Hand Grenade
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Green Day
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American Idiot
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Agnes Varda
,
The Gleaners and I
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Cleo From 5 to 7
,
The Beaches of Agnes
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Video
Movies
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Movie Review
Oct 8, 2015
Yakuza Apocalypse
: Splatter and silliness
Japanese cult director Takashi Miike unleashes one of his wackiest creations.
By Ben Sachs
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Yakuza Apocalypse
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Takashi Miike
,
Ichi the Killer
,
13 Assassins
,
Yoshitaka Yamaguchi
Movies
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Movie Review
Aug 12, 2015
Recommended
Tokyo Tribe
: A mixture of Cassavetes, Fassbinder, and arterial spray
Japanese street gangs do battle in the latest art-shocker from Sion Sono.
By Ben Sachs
Tags:
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Sion Sono
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Tokyo Tribe
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Suicide Club
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Love Exposure
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John Cassavetes
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Walter Hill
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The Warriors
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Riki Takeuchi
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Takashi Miike
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Dead or Alive
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Recommended
Movies
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Movie Review
Mar 25, 2015
Recommended
Video
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
: A Japanese comedy by two guys from Austin
In David and Nathan Zellner's film, a Tokyo office drone arrives in Minnesota to dig up the loot from
Fargo
.
By Ben Sachs
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Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
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David Zellner
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Music Box
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Nathan Zellner
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Rinko Kikuchi
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Norwegian Wood
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Fargo
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Coen Brothers
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Hirokazu Kore-eda
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After Life
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Air Doll
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Takashi Miike
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The Bird People of China
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Zebraman
,
Katsuhito Ishii
,
The Taste of Tea
,
Funky Forest: The First Contact
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Recommended
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Bleader
Aug 17, 2014
Weekly Top Five: The best of Japanese horror cinema
The best of Japanese horror
By Drew Hunt
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Japanese horror
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Hausu
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Onibaba
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Kaneto Shindo
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Jigoku
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Kuroneko
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Kwaidan
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Audition
,
Takashi Miike
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Marebito
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Takashi Shimizu
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Ju-On
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the Grudge
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Fritz Lang
,
H.P. Lovecraft
,
Richard Sharpe Shaver
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Suicide Circle
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Sion Sono
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Himizu
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Guilty of Romance
,
A Page of Madness
,
Teinosuke Kinugasa
,
School of New Perceptions
,
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
,
Jonathan Rosenbaum
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Bleader
May 12, 2014
How a movie might be memorable because of a single detail
Snacking on some nourishing movie crumbs
By Ben Sachs
Tags:
Moviegoing
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Film
,
Moviegoing
,
I Am Breathing
,
Neil Platt
,
Takashi Miike
,
White-Collar Worker Kintaro
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Bleader
Jun 13, 2012
There's no zebra time like the present
In praise of Takashi Miike's wonderfully warped
Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City
, now available on DVD
By Ben Sachs
Tags:
Foreign
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On Video
,
Takashi Miike
,
Zebraman
,
Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City
,
Dead or Alive 2: Birds
,
Happiness of the Katakuris
,
13 Assassins
,
V-cinema
Blogs
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Bleader
Jan 6, 2012
This week's movie action
A preview of movies playing in Chicago from January 6 - 12.
By Ben Sachs
Tags:
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Japanese film
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Mikio Naruse
,
Hideko Takamine
,
Lightning
,
Takashi Miike
,
13 Assassins
,
A Fistful of Dollars
,
Doc Films
,
Takeshi Kitano
,
Outrage
,
Chicago Reader
,
Ben Sachs
,
J.R. Jones
,
Andrea Gronvall
Blogs
,
Bleader
Dec 13, 2011
Coming soon: Alex de la Iglesia's
The Last Circus
A preview of Alex de la Iglesia's
The Last Circus
, which screens in Chicago this Saturday.
By Ben Sachs
Tags:
Film
,
Alex de la Iglesia
,
The Last Circus
,
Alejandro Jodorowsky
,
Santa Sangre
,
Chicago Cinema Society
,
Portage Theater
,
800 Bullets
,
El Crimen Perfecto
,
Common Wealth
,
Accion Mutante
,
Quentin Tarantino
,
Inglourious Basterds
,
Takashi Miike
,
fascism
,
2010 Venice Film Festival
,
Anthony Mann
,
Spaghetti Westerns
,
Winchester '73
Blogs
,
Bleader
Dec 5, 2011
Best of 2011, number 9:
13 Assassins
Our best of 2011 countdown revisits Takashi Miike's
13 Assassins
.
By Ben Sachs
Tags:
Film
,
13 Assassins
,
Takashi Miike
,
Best of 2011
,
Chicago
,
Dead or Alive 2: Birds
,
Izo
,
Ben Sachs
,
J.R. Jones
,
battle sequence
,
Music Box Theatre
Blogs
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Bleader
May 26, 2011
Video
This Week's Movie Action
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Film
,
Woody Allen
,
Midnight in Paris
,
Bullets Over Broadway
,
Alexandre O. Phillipe
,
The People vs. George Lucas
,
The Hangover Part II
,
The Hypnagogic Empiric
,
George Monteleone
,
Sirius Frantisek Vlacil
,
13 Assassins
,
Takashi Miike
,
Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie
,
This Is My Land . . . Hebron
,
Human Rights Watch Film Festival
,
Charlie Chaplink City Lights
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Alfred Hitchcock
,
Family Plot
,
University of Chicago Doc Films
,
Manoel de Oliveira
,
I'm Going Home
,
Tim Burton
,
Mars Attacks
,
Modern Times
,
David Gordon Green
,
Undertow
,
Music Box
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film festivals
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movies
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