Jonathan Rosenbaum talks retirement with Nick Digilio of WGN Radio.
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What’s the real story behind The Bank Job?
Fact and fiction in Roger Donaldson’s new thriller The Bank Job.
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Eurotreasure
Gene Siskel Film Center releases its schedule for the European Union Film Festival.
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Don’t touch that dial
Early films by Charles Burnett screen tonight on Turner Classic Movies.
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Changing of the guard
In February J.R. Jones assumes the role of chief film critic at the Chicago Reader.
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Bobcat Goldthwait’s new comedy delayed yet again
The Chicago release of Bobcat Goldthwait’s bestiality comedy Sleeping Dogs Lie has been delayed yet again.
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Philadelphia Sorry
Philadelphia is a heartbreakingly mediocre movie. It’s dishonest, it’s often legally, medically, and politically inaccurate, and it breaks my heart that I must say it’s simply not good enough and I’d rather people not see it at all. For 12 years millions of people, gays, people with AIDS, people with HIV infection, their families and […]
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Social Climbing
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE Directed by Martin Scorsese Written by Jay Cocks and Scorsese With Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, Stuart Wilson, Miriam Margolyes, Geraldine Chaplin, Mary Beth Hurt, and Norman Lloyd. Martin Scorsese clearly intends The Age of Innocence—his close adaptation of Edith Wharton’s 1920 novel about wealthy New York society in the […]