Reviews by Bears Rebecca Fonte Cinepocalypse arrived in Chicago last month (a festival which arose from the not quite cool ashes of suburban Chicago/Wizard World Con inhabiting Bruce Campbell’s Horror Film Festival) and touched down in downtown Chicago at the historic and totally cool Music Box Theater. The fest featured the US and Midwest premieres
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THE RIDER: Brady Jandreau Says Acting and Breaking A Horse Are Very Similar Achingly beautiful, yet still and quiet, THE RIDER is a semi-autobiographical docu-drama about Brady Jandreau (acting here as Brady Blackburn), a horse whisperer from South Dakota who is thrown violently from a bucking horse during a rodeo competition. This part of the
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Review by Lilly Lilova/Chris Thompson Summary: Chronic alcoholic John Callahan (Joaquin Phoenix), loses the ability to use his legs after a destructive night of drinking. John blames everyone but himself for the way he turned out and the behavior that led to that fateful car crash. His journey of acceptance is guided through a small
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Father-son duo Rick and Richie Daniels have been barbecuing together most of Richie’s life, starting…
There is an “otherness” that comes from watching a film from a country I don’t…
And We LOVE it! In a red hot, era-spanning collaboration, The Queen of Funk and multiple Grammy winner Chaka Khan has teamed up with Major Lazer founder and Grammy-nominated producer Switch (M.I.A., Beyoncé, Rihanna) to drop brand new track, ‘Like Sugar’. Not only does it represent a scintillating collaboration between two leading talents, but it’s
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#worlddrivingday Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 24 June 2018: Female racing driver Aseel Al Hamad celebrated the end of the ban on women drivers with a lap of honour in a Jaguar F-TYPE. Aseel, the first female board member of the Saudi Arabian Motor Federation, had never driven on a track in her home country before. Aseel
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Inductees: Bill Anderson, Steve Dorff, Jermaine Dupri, Alan Jackson, Robert “Kool” Bell, Ronald Bell, George…