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Film Review: Two Old Dogs Prove Very Entertaining in ‘Escape Plan’
CHICAGO– Great action movies have one truth in common – they mix their face-offs with a psychological battle, which complements the pyrotechnics of invincible super humans. “Escape Plan,” with grizzled...
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Blu-ray Review: Dated ‘Riot in Cell Block 11’ is Beautifully Filmed
CHICAGO– The Criterion Collection has added “Riot in Cell Block 11” (1954) to their stellar Blu-ray family, and the transfer is absolutely gorgeous, especially if you’re an admirer of the stark...
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Film Review: ‘Get Hard’ is Less Than the Sum of Its Parts
CHICAGO– Will Ferrell is a funny guy. Kevin Hart can be a funny guy. But the prison buddy comedy “Get Hard” is woefully less than the sum of its comedic parts. It fires buckshot of lame jokes at its...
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Film Review: American Legal System is Put on Trial in ‘Crown Heights’
CHICAGO– There is no justice for the poor. That should be carved in stone on courthouses beside all the platitudes of American “equality” and “law.” In an eye-opening narrative film based on a true...
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Podtalk: Co-Stars Daveed Diggs & Rafael Casal of ‘Blindspotting’
CHICAGO– If there are themes emerging in the 2018 film year, a couple of them are incorporated in Oakland, California, and African American identity. Like the recent “Black Panther” and “Sorry to...
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Film Review: The Tumbling Delicacy of Life in ‘Blindspotting’
CHICAGO– How can we understand the day-to-day factors of men and women who continued to be judged by their skin color, economic circumstances, difficult jobs or gender fluidity, if we are not any of...
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DAY SIX Podtalk: Chinonye Chukwu for ‘Clemency’ at 55th Chicago International...
CHICAGO– “I’m a filmmaker” proclaimed director Chinonye Chukwu on the Red Carpet at the 55th Chicago International Film Festival, before the screening of her new film “Clemency.” That exchange took...
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