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Screen Grabs: Every day they write the book

Dennis Harvey - August 6, 2020

Writing and writers seem to be the dominant theme in this weekend’s new releases—something that is seldom a particularly exciting subject for movies, admittedly....

Movies

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

Pam Grady - August 5, 2020

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: You say you wanted a ‘Revolution’

Dennis Harvey - August 4, 2020

At this point even six months ago may feel like an entirely different, long-lost epoch—as, meanwhile, November 3 can’t possibly come soon enough. But...

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Screen Grabs: Sentiment averse

Dennis Harvey - July 31, 2020

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...

Movies

Movies: ‘Around the Sun’ makers bring mumblecore teachings to a château

Pam Grady - July 29, 2020

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: The shift evident, women directors rise

Dennis Harvey - July 24, 2020

While the stampede of sexual harassment and assault accusations unleashed by the #MeToo movement may make it seem the entertainment industry is a sexist...

Movies

City quarantine, set to film for the Roxie’s Mixtape-in-Place fest

Pam Grady - July 22, 2020

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 - July 21, 2020

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 - July 17, 2020

This weekend’s new streaming releases are dominated by two major literary adaptations, both of which would have looked great on the big screen ......

Arts + Culture

Screen Grabs: From the dark, to the streaming services

Dennis Harvey - July 9, 2020

The demand for streaming movies has increased such during recent months that many films are getting taken off the shelf where they’ve laid neglected...

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Screen Grabs: Every day they write the book

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

Screen Grabs: You say you wanted a ‘Revolution’

Screen Grabs: Sentiment averse

Movies: ‘Around the Sun’ makers bring mumblecore teachings to a château

Screen Grabs: The shift evident, women directors rise

City quarantine, set to film for the Roxie’s Mixtape-in-Place fest

Screen Grabs: Films that pull back the veil

Screen Grabs: Don’t look away from ‘Decade of Fire’ and ‘The Painted Bird’

Screen Grabs: From the dark, to the streaming services

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