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Conversations at the Edge: Fall Season at Gene Siskel Center

By Reel Chicago Sep 17, 2021

Conversations at the Edge’s fall 2021 calendar begins Thursday, September 23 with a season of virtual and in-person screenings and talks by groundbreaking media artists. ...

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Full Spectrum Features announces selections for Chicagoland Shorts

By Reel Chicago Aug 31, 2021

Full Spectrum Features (FSF) announces the films and filmmakers selected to take part in Chicagoland Shorts Vol. 7, an annual short film collection featuring boundary-pushing, ...

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Jordan Peele’s Candyman shakes up the critics on opening day

By Reel Chicago Aug 27, 2021

The past year has been a chaotic one for movies as the Covid-19 pandemic has forced countless films to either move to VOD, release in a hybrid manner in theaters and VOD, or de...

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Home Alone reboot releases on Disney+ in time for the holidays

By Barbara Roche Aug 20, 2021

The reboot of Home Alone is coming exclusively to Disney+ as Home Sweet Home Alone on November 12, just in time for the holiday season. I had the extreme good fortune of wor...

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CANDYMAN: inside Chicago’s Cabrini-Green urban legend

By Reel Chicago Aug 16, 2021

Filmed in Chicago, Oscar winner Jordan Peele unleashes a fresh take on Chicago's Cabrini-Green blood-chilling urban legend: Candyman.  Filmmaker Nia DaCosta (Little W...

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Chicago-based Sheridan Road Productions premieres ‘The Road Dance’

By Reel Chicago Aug 10, 2021

The Road Dance, a WWI drama/love story, based on actual events, was developed and produced by Sheridan Road Productions, a Chicago-based development and production company. ...

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Star-studded doc honors life and career of Chicago’s Michael Madsen

By Reel Chicago Aug 3, 2021

There is an impressive group of Hollywood's A-List in the new documentary American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective. Among those who honor the life and career of Mich...

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Steven Spielberg sets multiple feature deal with Netflix

By Reel Chicago Jun 25, 2021

Steven Spielberg, a filmmaker synonymous with big-screen enchantment, has set a new deal with Netflix in which his production company, Amblin Partners, will make multiple featu...

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It’s CINEMA WEEK and The Logan Theatre is celebrating

By Reel Chicago Jun 25, 2021

It's CINEMA WEEK and The Logan Theatre is celebrating movie-going with fellow theaters nationwide! The real treat is the return of the big screen—everything beyond is to...

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The Music Box Theatre has plans for a big weekend

By Reel Chicago Jun 11, 2021

Whether you venture out on Open Chicago weekend or plan to stay in, Music Box has an awesome lineup of entertainment. From the creator of HAMILTON and the director of CRAZY ...

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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...