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Director John Jeffcoat Will be Present The Movie “Outsourced”

Director John Jeffcoat Will be Present The Movie “Outsourced”

This movie, released in 2006, is receiving its Chicago premiere in a weeklong run beginning today at the Gene Siskel Film Center. Director John Jeffcoat will be present for an audience discussion at the 5:15 p.m. screening Sunday. There is nothing in India more mysterious than the lovely land itself. The riot of colors, the careless jumble of the cities, …

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Drama Romance Movie “Friends With Money” resembles Crash, Money for Nothing

Drama Romance Movie “Friends With Money” resembles Crash, Money for Nothing

“Friends With Money” resembles “Crash,” except that all the characters are white, and the reason they keep running into each other is because the women have been friends since the dawn of time. Three of them are rich and married. The fourth is, and I quote, “single, a pothead and a maid.” That’s Olivia (Jennifer Aniston), who used to teach …

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The Movie a Drama Romance for One Season “My Summer of Love”

The Movie a Drama Romance for One Season “My Summer of Love”

Her brother has gone bonkers. He’s pouring all the booze down the drain and announcing he’s turning the pub into a worship center for Jesus people. Mona and Phil inherited the pub from their parents, and live upstairs; Phil (Paddy Considine) has come to Jesus belatedly, after a spell in prison. Mona (Natalie Press) gets on her moped, which has …

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Storyline Drama Family Comedy The Movie “Dead Pigs”

Storyline Drama Family Comedy The Movie “Dead Pigs”

It can’t be said that this movie’s title is false advertising. Cathy Yan’s 2018 feature, coming to streaming in the U.S. this week, opens with a wide-eyed pig farmer coming home from a virtual reality demo to find one of his prize animals unexpectedly turned into an ex-pig. Old Wang (Haoyu Yang) is first befuddled, then highly dispirited as the …

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The Movie Adventure Fantasy ” Strawberry Mansion “

The Movie Adventure Fantasy ” Strawberry Mansion “

This is a crucial exchange in “Strawberry Mansion,” a witty and thoughtful movie from co-writer/directors Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney, about one man’s struggle to recognize the unreality of what is deemed accepted reality, and to embrace the logic of dreams over the morally compromised “real” world. This makes “Strawberry Mansion” sound pretty heady and abstract, but it isn’t, not …

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Storyline Drama Horror a Movie “Let Me In”

Storyline Drama Horror a Movie “Let Me In”

“Let Me In,” like the Swedish film that inspired it, deals brutally with the tragic life of the vampire. It’s not all fun, games and Team Edward. No lifestyle depending on fresh human blood can be anything but desperate. A vampire, like a drug addict, is driven by need. After a certain point, all else is irrelevant, and the focus …

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“The World Is Not Enough” Movie Action Adventure

“The World Is Not Enough” Movie Action Adventure

“The World Is Not Enough” is a splendid comic thriller, exciting and graceful, endlessly inventive. Because it is also the 19th James Bond movie, it comes with so much history that one reviews it like wine, comparing it to earlier famous vintages; I guess that’s part of the fun. This is a good one. Instead of summarizing the plot, let’s …

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Storyline Drama Comedy Romance a Movie “The Other Side Of The Bed”

Storyline Drama Comedy Romance a Movie  “The Other Side Of The Bed”

Sun-Times Film Critic Nobody quite makes it to the other side of the bed in the new Spanish musical comedy “The Other Side of the Bed,” but that’s not for lack of talking about it. Although they don’t come right out and say so, I gather that this side of the bed is for heterosexuals, and that side is for …

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Storyline Drama Romance a Movie “Raising Victor Vargas”

“Raising Victor Vargas” tells the heartwarming story of first love that finds a balance between lust and idealism. Acted by fresh-faced newcomers who never step wrong, it sidesteps the cliches of teenage coming-of-age movies and expands into truth and human comedy. It’s the kind of movie you know you can trust, and you give yourself over to affection for these …

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