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Home » Richard Pryor

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Posted inArts & Culture

Aziza Barnes’s BLKS needs to take itself more srsly

by Justin Hayford December 22, 2017August 18, 2021

Steppenwolf’s Girls-like latest scores laughs but pulls its own punches.

Posted inBlogs

This year’s edition of Noir City: Chicago expands its focus

by Ben Sachs August 25, 2017August 18, 2021

The annual series celebrates the art of the heist.

Posted inBlogs

Reader’s Agenda Sat 8/16: Residue Records Showcase, Chicago Hip-Hop Day Festival, and the Black Harvest Film Festival

by Kerry Cardoza August 16, 2014August 18, 2021

What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Saturday, August 16

Posted inBlogs

The cross, the crosshairs, and the rest of this week’s screenings

by J.R. Jones August 15, 2014August 18, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue

Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias
Posted inFilm

Gabriel Iglesias: A comic on the couch

by Ben Sachs July 30, 2014August 18, 2021

Gabriel Iglesias’s concert doc The Fluffy Movie is part stand-up, part psychotherapy.

Trainspotting
Posted inArts & Culture

Our ten best bets for fall theater

by Chicago Reader September 12, 2012August 19, 2021

Our ten best bets for fall theater: Trainspotting, 44 plays for 44 presidents, and more

Posted inBlogs

The best repertory screenings of 2011

by Ben Sachs December 28, 2011August 19, 2021

A recap of Chicago’s best revival screenings in 2011.

Posted inBlogs

This Week’s Movie Action

by J.R. Jones May 5, 2011August 19, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue.

Posted inBlogs

This Week’s Movie Action

by J.R. Jones April 8, 2011August 19, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue.

Yaphet Kotto, Harvey Keitel, and Richard Pryor in Blue Collar
Posted inFilm

Blue Collar, Black Mark

by Ben Sachs April 7, 2011August 19, 2021

What happened when Paul Schrader, Hollywood’s Calvinist doomsayer, met Richard Pryor.

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