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Home » Pulp Fiction

Tag: Pulp Fiction

a series of X-Men comic book covers
Posted inArts & Culture

From the Dan Clowes Collection

by Megan Kirby January 10, 2022January 10, 2022

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 […]

Portrait of Continental Sales Lots-4-Less owner Ron Rojas
Posted inFood & Drink

Continental Sales Lots-4-Less is a real treasure island

by Mike Sula August 16, 2021August 18, 2021

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 […]

Posted inBlogs

Pulp Fiction, The Glass Shield, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

by Reader staff January 16, 2015August 18, 2021

Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.

3 Days to Kill
Posted inFilm

Daddy deals death in 3 Days to Kill

by J.R. Jones February 21, 2014August 18, 2021

Kevin Costner stars as a CIA assassin in the farcical 3 Days to Kill.

Posted inBlogs

Death be proud, and the rest of this week’s screenings

by J.R. Jones June 28, 2013August 19, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue

Posted inBlogs

Quentin Tarantino at College of DuPage

by J.R. Jones August 22, 2012August 19, 2021

A new course surveys the director’s career as his latest feature, Django Unchained, nears release

Posted inNews & Politics

Back to school with Tim Kinsella, class of ’93

by Tim Kinsella August 25, 2011August 19, 2021

“Sam stealing Owsley Stanley’s car seemed like just the next logical thing”

Posted inBlogs

Raindance Reunion

by Ed M. Koziarski November 29, 2010August 19, 2021

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.

Posted inBlogs

Lists that keep on giving, part 2

by Pat Graham December 23, 2008August 19, 2021

A farewell selection of favorite films from the last two decades.

Posted inBlogs

Denby on Kiarostami and Resnais

by Jonathan Rosenbaum March 6, 2007August 19, 2021

New Yorker film critic David Denby knocked Taste of Cherry in 1998, recommends it in 2007, and continues to slight Alain Resnais.

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