Caroline Polachek might be the queen of crushes. As half of the synth-pop duo Chairlift, she wrote cheeky sleeper favorites such as “Crying in Public” and “Bruises” in the late 2000s, before branching out into solo work, taking opera lessons (inspired by a Handel aria in the soundtrack of the 2009 Lars von Trier film […]
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Sweden’s Antichrist deliver a second riff-loaded record of 1980s post-Slayer thrash
It’s been six years since this stalwart Swedish thrash band’s last full-length, and the new Sinful Birth (released by Sweden’s I Hate Records), the long-awaited follow-up to 2011’s Forbidden World, delivers an even more solid wall of riffage that never stops rising. There’s such a purity to their studied 1980s post-Slayer thrash that a listener […]
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Weekly Top Five: The best of Lars von Trier
Highlights from the filmography of Lars Von Trier
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This Week’s Movie Action
New reviews and notable films in this week’s Chicago Reader.
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I don’t get Lars von Trier but he makes people write interesting things
Ebert on von Trier’s Antichrist, screening Monday at River East 21 as part of the Chicago International Film Festival: “Von Trier’s original intention, it’s said, was to reveal at the end that the world was created by Satan, not God: That evil, not goodness, reigns ascendant. His finished film reflects the same idea, but not […]
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The Reader’s Guide to the 45th Chicago International Film Festival: Week One
Selected films making their Chicago premieres at the festival through Thursday, October 15
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In case of Rapture, a heretic will maintain this blog
Obama as antichrist: a real thing… and an advantage?