Like Long Shot, these five films mine American politics for laughs.
Tag: Marx Brothers
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Il Trovatore’s plot is grim, but who cares when you know the score?
Giuseppe Verdi’s greatest-hits score keeps this warhorse on the stages of major opera companies.
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The French drama Marguerite tells the story of the world’s worst soprano
Catherine Frot stars as an amateur vocalist based on the real-life Florence Foster Jenkins.
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European Union Film Festival kicks off Friday, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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The Hunting Ground exposes rape on campus, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Peacenicks invade the Chicago Cultural Center, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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The European Union Film Festival invades Chicago, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Taste the blood of Jemaine Clement, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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High and dry at Fifty Shades of Grey, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Al Pacino in The Humbling, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Hitch-Cocktails makes for a good (tanked) evening
Hitch-Cocktails features mostly drunk improvisers creating a Hitchcock-style thriller, or something.
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LGBT, PFFA, and the rest of TWS*
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Nuns, superspies, wild animals, and the rest of this week’s movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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All this and air-conditioning too: the week’s movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Chicago’s comedy secret? Margaret Hicks says it’s fail again, fail better.
“Chicago is different because it’s not on a coast, it’s different from New York or Los Angeles because you have the right to fail. You get more than one chance. You have the right to fail and pick yourself up and start again.” —Second City cofounder Bernard Sahlins, quoted in Chicago Comedy: A Fairly Serious […]