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Meet the New Bossnew
The new head of the Illinois Film Office is politically connected -- just not the way the Sun-Times reported.
Chicago Reader |
Deanna Isaacs |
01-22-2007 |
Movies
New Perspectivesnew
Clint Eastwood looks at WW II from the losing side in Letters From Iwo Jima; Karen Moncrieff slices and dices the usual slasher narrative in The Dead Girl.
Chicago Reader |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
01-17-2007 |
Reviews
Thinking Inside the Boxnew
In Pan's Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro makes genre work for him -- in Children of Men, Alfonso Cuaron lets it get in his way.
Chicago Reader |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
01-08-2007 |
Reviews
Hometown Heroesnew
If you're looking for heartland truths, Smallville's soap-opera fantasy beats the "reality" of Friday Night Lights.
Chicago Reader |
Lee Sandlin |
01-08-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Difference Between Smart and Wisenew
For the big screen, Alan Bennett presents a less cynical version of his play about what an education is good for.
Chicago Reader |
J.R. Jones |
12-11-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Nicholas Hytner, The History Boys
Mainly a Borenew
Dexter puts an absurd twist on Hollywood's favorite bugaboo.
Chicago Reader |
Lee Sandlin |
11-22-2006 |
TV
Tags: TV
Bites of Realitynew
Death of a President wants to function as a mindless thriller that eventually makes us think -- and only after the film is over question the form that encouraged us to be mindless.
Chicago Reader |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
10-30-2006 |
Reviews
Disorderly Conductnew
Things have gotten so out of hand on Law & Order it's a wonder the accused are allowed any defense at all.
Chicago Reader |
Lee Sandlin |
10-23-2006 |
TV
Tags: TV
A Place in the Worldnew
The new Scorsese and a film about Idi Amin share a theme: young men in search of themselves.
Chicago Reader |
J.R. Jones |
10-09-2006 |
Reviews
Quaint Is the New Cutting Edgenew
Or so you might think after the first few episodes of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
Chicago Reader |
Lee Sandlin |
10-09-2006 |
TV
Tags: TV
