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16th CineYouth Festival announces winners

By Reel Chicago May 10, 2021

CineYouth Festival, presented by Cinema/Chicago, announced award winners for its expanded 2021 edition, comprising films accepted for the pandemic-preempted 2020 edition plus ...

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Music Box Theatre showing trio of 2021 Oscar Nominees

By Reel Chicago Apr 17, 2021

The Music Box Theatre is giving you a chance to see a trio of 2021 Oscar Nominees on the big screen! From April 16th – April 22nd only, you can catch ...

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Coda Collection acquires Dave Grohl’s What Drives Us

By Reel Chicago Apr 12, 2021

Dave Grohl has been one of the most beloved and respected figures on the international music scene since his recorded debut with Nirvana on 1991's generation-defining Nevermind...

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Hollywood stars join Humane Society’s ‘Save Ralph’

By Reel Chicago Apr 6, 2021

Hollywood filmmakers and movie stars have joined forces with Humane Society International to produce a powerful stop-motion animated short film, Save Ralph, to end cosmetic tes...

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Safe Humane Chicago hosts screening of Stray

By Reel Chicago Feb 23, 2021

Safe Humane Chicago announced today a virtual fundraising screening event of Magnolia Pictures' new, upcoming documentary Stray, directed by Independent Spirit Award-nominee fi...

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‘Postcards From Home’ personalizes the pandemic

By Daniel L. Patton Feb 18, 2021

Chicago-based filmmaker Richard Cohen explores the depths of isolation in Postcards From Home, a series of one-act vignettes about the affects of the pandemic. The ten-minut...

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Chicago Med, Fire actors in Rain Beau’s End

By Reel Chicago Feb 16, 2021

Rain Beau's End is an intimate lesbian family-drama situated in the late 1990s, depicting how the labelling of their adopted son affects a progressive lesbian couple's relation...

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Think you know everything about Groundhog Day?

By Joia Davida Feb 2, 2021

Every February 2 on Groundhog Day, North Americans wait with bated breath to discover if there will be six more weeks of winter or if there will be an early spring as foretold ...

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Chicago filmmakers have the #1 box-office hit this week

By Barbara Roche Jan 29, 2021

Chicago filmmakers Chris Charles, Columbia College Chicago Adjunct Professor Danny Kravitz, and three-time Academy Award nominee Robert Lorenz have a No. 1 box-office hit this ...

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Gotham winner ‘Identifying Features’ comes to Siskel

By Reel Chicago Jan 15, 2021

The acclaimed, gripping Mexican border thriller from debut Mexican filmmaker Fernanda Valadez, Identifying Features, will open January 22 with Chicago's Gene Siskel Film Center...

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Macaulay Culkin supports Trump out of Home Alone 2

By Reel Chicago Jan 15, 2021

Macaulay Culkin speaks out in his supports the removal of Donald Trump's cameo from Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. Culkin, who starred as Kevin McAllister in the popular 19...

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Groundbreaking doc ‘What About Me’ to air in Feb

By Reel Chicago Jan 14, 2021

Groundbreaking documentary What About Me will air in syndication February 6–28, 2021. In an effort to change the negative perceptions of African American Men in the media, 5J...

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REVIEW: Boseman, Davis make ‘Ma Rainey’s’ a must-see

By Joia DaVida Dec 23, 2020

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is the long-awaited adaptation of the hit stage play, written by August Wilson by the same name. Aside from a few scenes in the beginning of the film...

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REVIEW: ‘Trial of Chicago 7’ is compelling entertainment

By Joia DaVida Dec 23, 2020

The Trial of the Chicago 7 is a compelling courtroom drama that is filled with crisp dialogue that debuted on Netflix a month before the election. While Trump's Justice Departm...

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Transgender doc ‘Born to Be’ opens in Chicago 11.20

By Reel Chicago Nov 12, 2020

Born to Be follows the work of Dr. Jess Ting, a plastic surgeon at the groundbreaking Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery in New York City-where, for t...

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‘Doll Eyes’ come to life for Chicago director Piñeiro

By Reel Chicago Nov 12, 2020

Felix Piñeiro has signed on to direct Doll Eyes written by award-winning screenwriter Amir Mohabbat. The horror film follows a developmentally disabled man who protects ...

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ECHO BOOMERS Chicago Premiere with Seth Savoy Q&A

By Reel Chicago Nov 5, 2020

Echo Boomers, the crime drama feature starring Oscar nominee Michael Shannon (Knives Out, Nocturnal Animals, The Shape of Water) and Patrick Schwarzenegger (Scouts Gu...

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Unashamed Media releases poignant short “Otis’ Dream”

By Reel Chicago Nov 1, 2020

Otis Moss, Sr.’s journey to vote in 1946 Georgia is one of heartbreak and enduring hope, and it is as relevant today as it was back then. Especially as people of color across...

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Interview with Eileen Cabiling director of Basurero

By Reel Chicago Oct 27, 2020

Basurero, a short film written and directed by Eileen Cabiling, has been making some serious waves at Asian film festivals this year. In it, a struggling young Filipino fis...

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37th Annual Chicago International Children’s Film Fest

By Reel Chicago Oct 26, 2020

The full schedule was announced for Facets 37th Annual Chicago International Children's Film Festival (CICFF37) one of only two Academy Award-qualifying international...