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Movies

Clap your hands, stomp your feet for ‘River City Drumbeat’

Pam Grady -
River City Drumbeat (playing Fri/7-August 21 at Roxie Virtual Cinema) captures a Louisville, KY, phenomenon: the River City Drum Corp, a youth brigade of African...
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Screen Grabs: Sentiment averse

Dennis Harvey -
Normally I wouldn’t bother explaining why a certain movie is not being covered in this column, but this weekend there’s a particular glut of ‘em, all...
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Movies: ‘Around the Sun’ makers bring mumblecore teachings to a château

Pam Grady -
A visit to London planted the seeds for the romantic sci-fi drama Around the Sun, which opens a run in the Roxie Virtual Cinema...
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Screen Grabs: Art imitates life

Dennis Harvey -
Social media political propaganda campaigns, sexual abuse accusations, invaded privacy—art certainly seems to be imitating life even more than usual amongst new streaming releases...
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Screen Grabs: The shift evident, women directors rise

Dennis Harvey -
While the stampede of sexual harassment and assault accusations unleashed by the #MeToo movement may make it seem the entertainment industry is a sexist...
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City quarantine, set to film for the Roxie’s Mixtape-in-Place fest

Pam Grady -
When the Roxie Theater announced the first open call for a Mixtape event in 2015, the festival was never meant to become an annual...
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Screen Grabs: Films that pull back the veil

Dennis Harvey -
The Trump regime’s egregious wrongdoing and pollutive effect on society has wound up bringing greater attention to long-term (yet rapidly worsening) woes of American...
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Screen Grabs: Don’t look away from ‘Decade of Fire’ and ‘The Painted Bird’

Dennis Harvey -
This weekend’s new streaming releases are dominated by two major literary adaptations, both of which would have looked great on the big screen ......
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New restorations of Arthur Bressan Jr.’s films make for porn reborn

Johnny Ray Huston -
Imagine, if you will, a time before carefully categorized and context-free snippets and vignettes on PornHub—a time before 10,000 slangy, jokey descriptors turned sex...
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Screen Grabs: Welcome to Jewish Film Fest’s online ‘Cinegogue’

Dennis Harvey -
Four months into the COVID crisis (with no end in sight yet), many film festivals and organizations have had time to come up with...
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