If you head down to the basement of Chicago Comics, past the endless rows of back issues and vintage titles waiting to be priced, you’ll find 15 white boxes. They contain a pretty standard collection of 60s and 70s comics—Thor, Conan the Barbarian, X-Men, MAD magazine. But these comics have a special allure. They belonged […]
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Continental Sales Lots-4-Less is a real treasure island
John Sanchez reckons he downs 12 cases of bubbly a month. “I don’t drink pop, or juice, or anything diet, so I usually come here for the bubbly,” he shouted. “It’s cheaper.” We were struggling to hear each other in a sun-beaten Clearing parking lot on a recent morning while he loaded two-liter bottles of […]
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Pulp Fiction, The Glass Shield, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week
Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.
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Daddy deals death in 3 Days to Kill
Kevin Costner stars as a CIA assassin in the farcical 3 Days to Kill.
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Death be proud, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Quentin Tarantino at College of DuPage
A new course surveys the director’s career as his latest feature, Django Unchained, nears release
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Back to school with Tim Kinsella, class of ’93
“Sam stealing Owsley Stanley’s car seemed like just the next logical thing”
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Raindance Reunion
Hollywood producer and Chicago native Michael Shamberg joins his comrades from the Vietnam-era radical video collective Raindance Corporation for their first-ever reunion Tuesday, Nov. 30 at Loyola University.
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Lists that keep on giving, part 2
A farewell selection of favorite films from the last two decades.
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Denby on Kiarostami and Resnais
New Yorker film critic David Denby knocked Taste of Cherry in 1998, recommends it in 2007, and continues to slight Alain Resnais.