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Blogs, Bleader Nov 24, 2017
Thanksgiving weekend in Chicago: Best things to do

Rising hip-hop artist G Herbo, Late Show writer and humorist author Daniel Kibblesmith, a discussion about the best books of 2017, and more goings-on November 24-26
- By Steve Heisler
- Tags: Arts, Do This, daniel kibblesmith, stephen colbert, santa, challenger comics, conversation, gremlins, dave kehr. e.t., pbr movie night, boiler room, annoyance christmas pageant, charlie brown, rudolph, all funkd' up, savion glover, g herbo, liz taylor, charles finch, Tanya Aguiñiga

Blogs, Bleader Dec 15, 2013
Weekly Top Five: The best of Joe Dante

Weekly Top Five: Joe Dante
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Home Alone, A Christmas Story, Nitecap Coffee Bar, Music Box, Logan, Joe Dante, Matinee, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, The Howling, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, James Cameron, Roger Corman, The 'Burbs, Rear Window, Gremlins, Steven Spielberg

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Dec 4, 2013
Recommended
New Stages at diez anos

Goodman Theatre's festival of developing plays focuses on Latino writers.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Goodman Theatre, New Stages, Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue, Pulitzer Prize, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Water by the Spoonful, The Brothers Size, Tarell Alvin McCraney, The Brother/Sister Plays, Lynn Nottage, Ruined, The Rooster Room, Another Word for Beauty, José Rivera, The Motorcycle Diaries, Feathers and Teeth, Charise Castro Smith, Greek Tragedy, Gremlins, Kristoffer Diaz, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, Victory Gardens Theater, Ignition Festival, New York, The Solid Sand Below, Adam Poss, The Upstairs Concierge, The Solid Sand Below, Recommended

Music, Gossip Wolf Jun 13, 2013
Gossip Wolf: Cafe Mustache crowdfunds a bigger music room

Plus: Pelican tweak their studio lineup for their fifth LP, and Bric-a-Brac Records opens in Logan Square
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Cafe Mustache, Logan Square, Kickstarter, Pelican, lectrical Audio, Chris Common, Dallas Thomas, Laurent Schroeder-Lebec, Yakuza, Bruce Lamont, Trevor de Brauw, Bric-a-Brac Records, Nick Mayor, Jen Lemasters, Burger, HoZac, 1-2-3-4 Go, Full Breach 77, Hall & Oates, Masters of the Universe, Gremlins, Star Wars, Robocop

Blogs, Bleader Dec 9, 2012
Weekly Top Five: Ho-ho-ho horror films

Top five Christmas horror films
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Paranormal, Weekly Top Five, Film, Rare Exports: A Christmas Story, Black Christmas, Silent Night Deadly Night III Better Watch Out, You'd Better Watch Out, Gremlins, Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five

Blogs, Bleader Dec 7, 2012
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The wrong man times five, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Chicago International Film Festival, The Central Park Five, Burn: One Year on the Front Lines of the Battle to Save Detroit, Generation P, Starlet movie, Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present, New Jerusalem, Rick Alverson, The Comedy movie, Oliver Twist, Jackie Coogan, Lon Chaney, Step Up to the Plate, Michel Bras, Sebastien Bras, We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists, Joseph von Sternberg, Anatahan, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Eric von Stroheim, Blind Husbands, Gene Siskel Film Center, Busby Berkeley, The Gang's All Here, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Joe Dante, Gremlins, Logan Theater Chicago, Alfred Hitchcock, Marnie Hitchcock, Facets Cinematheque, Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, Gretchen Helfrich, WBEZ, Hayao Miyazaki, Spirited Away, University of Chicago Doc Films, Chicago movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 5, 2012
Video
Aria going to Facets? and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Schroeter, Goethe-Institut, Facets Cinematheque, The Paperboy movie, Lee Daniels, Precious movie, Shadowboxer movie, About Cherry, James Franco, Dev Patel, Lili Taylor, Heather Graham, The Ambassador movie, Mads Brugger, The Red Chapel, Escape Fire The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare, Frankenweenie, Tim Burton, The Last Step, Leila Hatami, A Separation movie, The Oranges movie, Hugh Laurie, Allison Janney, Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, Three Films: Straub and Huillet, Twenty Days Without War, Aleksei Guerman, V/H/S, Ti West, Joe Swanberg, The Well-Digger's Daughter, Marcel Pagnol, Daniel Auteuil, Won't Back Down, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Holly Hunter, Stanley Donen, Charade movie, Northbrook Public Library, King Hu, Come Drink With Me, University of Chicago Doc Films, Vera Chytilova, Daisies, Gene Siskel Film Center, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Alexander Payne, Election movie, Columbia College Film Row Cinema, Frank Tashlin, The Girl Can't Help It, Fred Camper, Joe Dante, Gremlins, Jean-Luc Godard, Pierrot le Fou, Ken Jacobs, Tom Tom the Piper's Son, Greek Film Fest Chicago, National Hellenic Museum, Pickwick Theater, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 9, 2012
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
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Joe Dante, Gabe Klinger, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Music Box Theatre, The Movie Orgy, The Nightingale, Jon Davison, Bruce Dern, Schlitz Beer, The 'Burbs, Gremlins, Rick Baker, Innerspace, Trailers From Hell, Steven Spielberg, Warner Brothers Pictures, Movies Till Dawn, The Watch, Matinee, Hollywood Boulevard, Roger Corman

Blogs, Bleader Dec 4, 2009
New on DVD: Paper Heart, Terminator Salvation, and Gremlins on Blu-ray, plus other films recently released on DVD

A list of films recently released on DVD.
- By Sean Cronin
- Tags: Film, New on DVD, Paper Heart, Terminator Salvation, Secondhand Lions, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, A Christmas Tale, Night at the Museum: Battle at the Smithsonian, Gomorrah, Rolling Stones, Gimme Shelter, Gremlins, Criterion, Blu-ray

Blogs, Bleader Sep 16, 2009
"Shades of Bacchus!" Joe Dante Talks W.C. Fields
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Toronto International Film Festival, Joe Dante, Joe Dante Hole, Piranha, The Howling, Gremlins, W.C. Fields, It's a Gift, Innerspace, Joe Dante Matinee, Small Soldiers, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Norman Z. McLeod, Marx Brothers, Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, Danny Kaye, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Bob Hope, Road to Rio, The Paleface, David Lynch, Martin Short, Ted Kotcheff, Wake in Fright, Trailers From Hell, Roger Corman, Jahn Sayles, Martin Scorsese, filmmakers, fi;m festivals, movies

Blogs, Bleader Dec 20, 2007
Attention, shoppers ...

Some last-minute suggestions for the ax-wielding movie lover: it's the season of Christmas giving!
- By Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, Allison Hayes, Child's Play series, Handbags of Horror, Radar Online, The Mummy, Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, Gremlins, Creature From the Black Lagoon, The Terminator, Betsey Johnson, Attack of the 50-Foot Woman

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Thanksgiving weekend in Chicago: Best things to do

Rising hip-hop artist G Herbo, Late Show writer and humorist author Daniel Kibblesmith, a discussion about the best books of 2017, and more goings-on November 24-26

Weekly Top Five: The best of Joe Dante

Weekly Top Five: Joe Dante

Recommended
New Stages at diez anos

Goodman Theatre's festival of developing plays focuses on Latino writers.

Gossip Wolf: Cafe Mustache crowdfunds a bigger music room

Plus: Pelican tweak their studio lineup for their fifth LP, and Bric-a-Brac Records opens in Logan Square

Weekly Top Five: Ho-ho-ho horror films

Top five Christmas horror films

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The wrong man times five, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Video
Aria going to Facets? and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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

New on DVD: Paper Heart, Terminator Salvation, and Gremlins on Blu-ray, plus other films recently released on DVD

A list of films recently released on DVD.

"Shades of Bacchus!" Joe Dante Talks W.C. Fields

Attention, shoppers ...

Some last-minute suggestions for the ax-wielding movie lover: it's the season of Christmas giving!

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Rising hip-hop artist G Herbo, Late Show writer and humorist author Daniel Kibblesmith, a discussion about the best books of 2017, and more goings-on November 24-26

Weekly Top Five: Joe Dante

Goodman Theatre's festival of developing plays focuses on Latino writers.

Plus: Pelican tweak their studio lineup for their fifth LP, and Bric-a-Brac Records opens in Logan Square

Top five Christmas horror films

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

The second part of an interview with the director of Gremlins 2: The New Batch and The Movie Orgy

A list of films recently released on DVD.

Some last-minute suggestions for the ax-wielding movie lover: it's the season of Christmas giving!

Other Searches