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Blogs, Bleader Jan 8, 2019
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Let us now praise Elvis Presley and his movies

It's the King's birthday, so Viva Las Vegas, baby!
- By Aimee Levitt and Jamie Ludwig
- Tags: Film, Flopcorn, Music, Elvis Presley, Blue Hawaii, Viva Las Vegas, Change of Habit, Hawaii, tourism, Angela Lansbury, Ann-Margret, Mary Tyler Moore, nuns, Las Vegas, He's Your Uncle Not Your Dad, Speedway, Bill Bixby, Nancy Sinatra, IRS, Black Panthers, The Sound of Music, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 26, 2017
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Dunkirk and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets are alive with the sound of money

The latest from Christopher Nolan and Luc Besson are both weighed down by their sense of spectacle.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Boom!, Film, Shots Fired, Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk, 70-millimeter film, IMAX, The Sound of Music, Luc Besson, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Nowhere to Hide, Zaradasht Ahmed, Video

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Jun 15, 2016
Congo Square’s A Small Oak Tree Runs Red, Black Ensemble’s The Marvin Gaye Story, and ten more new theater reviews

Two African-American companies present revelatory dramas.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Bars and Measures, Idris Goodwin, Osiris Khepera, Anthony Conway, Tara Branham, John Keats, The Dark Ages: Otho the Great, The Divine Sister, Hell in a Handbag Productions, Charles Busch, David Cerda, Shade Murray, Charlotte Mae Ellison, Chad, Hauptmann, John Logan, Denis O'Hare, Terry McCabe, Bruno Hauptmann, Lindberg kidnapping, George Seegebrecht, Brian Pastor, The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling, Tracey Power, Theatre-Hikes, Eldridge Shannon III, William Goff, Felix Mayes, Timothy Sullivan, The Marvin Gaye Story: Don't Talk About My Father Because God Is My Friend, Jackie Taylor, Black Ensemble Theater, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gay Sr., Rashawn Thompson, Henri Watkins, Lake Forest Theatre, The Secret Garden, Steve Malone, Edward Fraim, A Small Oak Tree Runs Red, Congo Square Theater, Lekethia Dalcoe, Harry Lennix, Mary Turner, lynchings, The Sound of Music, Kerstin Anderson, Ben Davis, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Jack O'Brien, A Storm of Limbs, Piebenga Plumbing, Tapped: A Treasonous Musical Comedy, Jed Levine and Brad Kemp, Holly Gombita, Molly Todd Madison, Laureen Siciliano, The Untold, Untrue Love Story of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Grace Perry, Lyndsay Rush, Sarah Ashley, iO Theater

Blogs, Bleader Nov 27, 2015
Post-Thanksgiving weekend events and things to do in Chicago

Windy City Soul Club, ZooLights, The Sound of Music, and more events in Chicago from November 27-29
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Agenda, Caroling at Cloud Gate, The Sound of Music, Empty Bottle Book Club, Christkindlmarket, Windy City Soul Club, Bell Hop, Zoo Lights

Blogs, Bleader May 1, 2014
A Sound of Music for its fans, old and new

The Sound of Music at Lyric Opera is big, beautiful, and traditional.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Theater, Arts, Lyric Opera of Chicago, The Sound of Music, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Jean Gambatese, Christine Brewer, Elizabeth Futral, Edward Hibbert, Michael Yeargan, Zach Sorrow, Marc Bruni, Billy Zane

Blogs, Bleader Nov 29, 2013
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Sperm blowout, hoop dreams deferred, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Delivery Man, Starbuck, Vince Vaughn, Lenny Cooke, Ben Safdie, Joshua Safdie, Third Ward TX, Joe Swanberg, All the Light in the Sky, Jane Adams, Claire Denis, Bastards, Kasi Lemmons, Black Nativity, Forest Whitaker, Angela Bassett, Langston Hughes, Disney Frozen, Hans Christian Andersen, Homefront movie, Jason Statham, Sylvester Stallone, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressberger, Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes, Gene Siskel Film Center, Joe Dante, The Burbs, University of Chicago Doc Films, Olivier Assayas Carlos, Jean-Luc Godard Contempt, Joseph Losey, The Servant, Claire Denis, The Intruder, W.C. Fields, Million Dollar Legs, Joel McCrea, Girls About Town, Terence Davies, Of Time and the City, Dario Argento, Suspiria, Patio Theater Chicago, The Sound of Music, Music Box Chicago, Block Museum of Art, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis, Logan Center for the Arts, From 2337 West Monroe Street, Fred Hampton, Greg Sestero, The Disaster Artist, The Room movie, Cinema Minima, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deck the Holodeck, Cole's Bar, Chicago movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 29, 2013
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Black is beautiful, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, L.A. Rebellion, Gene Siskel Film Center, From Up on Poppy Hill, Studio Ghibli, Gimme the Loot, Warrendale, Olympus Has Fallen, The Sapphires, Starbuck movie, Jacques Audiard, The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Alliance Francais, Sergio Leone, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Landmark's Century Centre, Alfred Hitchcock Psycho, Sascha Gervais, Music Box Chicago, The Sound of Music, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 23, 2011
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This week's movie action: special grandma edition

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Hugo movie, Hugo Martin Scorsese, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, The Muppets movie, Arthur Christmas, Caldecott Medal, Brian Selznick, J. Edgar movie, Clint Eastwood, J. Edgar Hoover, Melancholia movie, Melancholia Lars von Trier, Rachel Getting Married, El Bulli: Cooking in Progress, The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch, My Week With Marilyn, Marilyn Monroe, Rid of Me, Tape movie, Tape Li Ning, Jacques Tourneur, Curse of the Demon, University of Chicago Doc Films, The Last Waltz, Music Box, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Sound Opinions, Robert Wise, The Sound of Music, Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard, Northbrook Public Library, Carol Reed, The Third Man, Thomas McCarthy, The Visitor movie, Gene Siskel Film Center, West Side Story, Orchestra Hall, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 31, 2011
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The dB's rock again

The brilliant guitar-pop band reunites for a new album and tour in early 2012.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Music, The dB's, R.E.M., Revolution of the Mind, Falling Off the Sky, Stands for Decibels, Black and White, Peter Holsapple, Chris Stamey, Revolver, Repercussion, Like This, The Sound of Music, Christmastime Is Here, Mavericks, Here and Now, Hideout Block Party, House of Blues Back Porch Stage, Will Rigby, Gene Holder, What Becomes of the Broken Hearted, jangle pop, new wave, guitar pop, rock music, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 5, 2011
The King's Speech—A Wonderful Movie

BRITISH KING TRIUMPHS (as world goes to war)
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, Film, News Bites, The King's Speech, King George VI, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, World War II, Winston Churchill, The Sound of Music

Blogs, Bleader Nov 25, 2009
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No One's Pardoning These Turkeys

New movies open today for the holiday weekend, including Fantastic Mr. Fox. Also: a recap of the fall's best movies still screening in theaters.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Old Dogs, Ninja Assassins, Robin Williams, John Travolta, Wes Anderson, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl, John HIllcoat, Road Cormac McCarthy, Cormac McCarthy, John Woo, Red Cliff, Sing-A-Long Sound of Music, The SOund of Music, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, La Danse--The Paris Opera Ballet, An Education, Good Hair, Inglourious Basterds, Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, A Serious Man, Where the Wild Things Are, movies, Video

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Let us now praise Elvis Presley and his movies

It's the King's birthday, so Viva Las Vegas, baby!

Video
Dunkirk and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets are alive with the sound of money

The latest from Christopher Nolan and Luc Besson are both weighed down by their sense of spectacle.

Congo Square’s A Small Oak Tree Runs Red, Black Ensemble’s The Marvin Gaye Story, and ten more new theater reviews

Two African-American companies present revelatory dramas.

Post-Thanksgiving weekend events and things to do in Chicago

Windy City Soul Club, ZooLights, The Sound of Music, and more events in Chicago from November 27-29

A Sound of Music for its fans, old and new

The Sound of Music at Lyric Opera is big, beautiful, and traditional.

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Sperm blowout, hoop dreams deferred, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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Black is beautiful, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Video
This week's movie action: special grandma edition

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

Video
The dB's rock again

The brilliant guitar-pop band reunites for a new album and tour in early 2012.

The King's Speech—A Wonderful Movie

BRITISH KING TRIUMPHS (as world goes to war)

Video
No One's Pardoning These Turkeys

New movies open today for the holiday weekend, including Fantastic Mr. Fox. Also: a recap of the fall's best movies still screening in theaters.

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It's the King's birthday, so Viva Las Vegas, baby!

The latest from Christopher Nolan and Luc Besson are both weighed down by their sense of spectacle.

Two African-American companies present revelatory dramas.

Windy City Soul Club, ZooLights, The Sound of Music, and more events in Chicago from November 27-29

The Sound of Music at Lyric Opera is big, beautiful, and traditional.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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

The brilliant guitar-pop band reunites for a new album and tour in early 2012.

BRITISH KING TRIUMPHS (as world goes to war)

New movies open today for the holiday weekend, including Fantastic Mr. Fox. Also: a recap of the fall's best movies still screening in theaters.

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