Sean Stangland
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Movie reviews for 'Joe Six-Pack': New podcast serves as oral history of 'Siskel & Ebert'Jul 29, 2021 6:00 am - "Chicago is unbelievably proud of itself. Anyone from Chicago will tell you the best things come from Chicago." So says Erik Rydholm on this week's episode of "Gene & Ro...
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Faster than Space Mountain: 'Behind the Attraction' packed with quips, detailsJul 21, 2021 6:00 am - With rapid-fire jokes and factoids, "Behind the Attraction," a 10-part documentary series streaming now on Disney+, plays like a loose sequel to "The Imagineering Story....
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Age has been kind to Indiana Jones' most absurd adventureJul 17, 2021 7:30 am - A fifth Indiana Jones movie has been filming around the U.K. the past couple of months - even while 78-year-old Harrison Ford has been sidelined with a shoulder injury -...
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Widescreen: This Independence Day, look to the stars (no, not for aliens)Jul 01, 2021 6:00 am - There are revolutionary war films such as Mel Gibson's "The Patriot" (Netflix), biographies of great Americans including Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" (HBO Max) and rah-r...
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Widescreen: Nightmarish, naughty 'Evil' is a show on the cusp of greatnessJun 24, 2021 6:00 am - Investigator David Acosta (Mike Colter), a priest-in-training who drops psilocybin in his tea to induce divine visions, sees himself in a golden field of wheat. Walking ...
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Wizard World, C2E2 offer virtual fan events ahead of conventions' return this fallJun 17, 2021 6:00 am - The whispers about the coronavirus started to get loud at the end of February 2020, which was also the last time a major pop culture convention was held in Chicago. As a...
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Wizard World Chicago returns to Rosemont in OctoberJun 14, 2021 1:00 am - Movies are back, baseball games are back, concerts are back. On Oct. 15, pop culture conventions are back. Wizard World Chicago will return Oct. 15 through 17 to the Don...
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Time-bending 'Loki' has potential once it puts the past awayJun 08, 2021 11:00 pm - The first episode of "Loki," now streaming on Disney+, offers glimpses of a clever sci-fi pastiche in between rehashed scenes from the Marvel villain's previous film app...
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Widescreen: Grohl's Paramount+ show profiles Libertyville's raging Morello familyJun 03, 2021 6:00 am - Rage Against the Machine won't be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this year, but they've already cemented a place in music history as a loud, creative voi...
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Widescreen: Winslet's 'Mare of Easttown' joins the pantheon of great detective showsMay 27, 2021 11:00 pm - Like most of the world, I first swooned for Kate Winslet in 1997 when she was dancing in steerage with Leonardo DiCaprio. In 2021, she sat down at a Pennsylvania dive ba...