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Keith Lee, food critic for our economy

Lee has a critic's ethos, just like the late Roger Ebert and the misunderstood Anton Ego from "Ratatouille"

Salon

10 Years Ago, a Legendary Indie Adventure Redefined Video Games

Are video games art? A 'Half-Life 2' mod turned standalone phenomenon answered that question in the most ludicrous way possible.

Inverse

James Hoge, Sun-Times editor who oversaw era of audacious investigations and 6 Pulitzers, dies at 87

Mr. Hoge didn’t hesitate to sign off on the Mirage Tavern sting when reporter Pam Zekman pitched it to him while walking across the Michigan Avenue Bridge in 1977.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Spike Lee: critics said Do the Right Thing would ‘incite riots’

Speaking at the Toronto film festival, where he was accepting an award, the auteur recalled the press response to his 1989 film

The Guardian - UK

William Friedkin’s best films to watch after The Exorcist

He was known for his 1973 genre-changing horror, but many of the director’s shocking and electrifying films also reached deep into the American psyche

Evening Standard

30 Years Ago, A Gory Sci-Fi Thriller Beat Steven Spielberg to the Punch

No budget? No problem.

Inverse

Making movies in video games: why the film world is finally ready to take ‘machinima’ seriously

Last week in a small city in the Ruhr area of Germany, a film that I made inside the video game Grand Theft Auto was screened at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, as part of an extensive overview of machinima.

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25 Years Ago, a Criminally Underrated Sci-Fi Movie Beat 'The Matrix' to the Punch

The brooding existential cousin to its more popular rival, Alex Proyas' thriller is still impressive and unsettling.

Inverse

Sun-Times turns 75, how to find your mayoral match and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Chicago Sun-Times

Gather in the newsroom for a brief meeting

On the 75th birthday of the paper, a visit with colleagues long gone.

Chicago Sun-Times

Sun-Times at 75: A look back, starting with a story that became a Jimmy Stewart movie

The first daily edition was a reminder to readers that, while they were reading a new paper, they could trust the reporting. That has never changed.

Chicago Sun-Times

Review: No, movies are not empathy machines — and the brilliant 'Saint Omer' shows why

Roger Ebert once famously likened the movies to "a machine that generates empathy." It's a formulation I've never fully been able to swallow, for reasons that have less to do with Ebert's specific insight than with its reductive, ad-nauseam recycling by other critics and moviegoers.

Los Angeles Times

'Avatar: The Way of Water' producer doesn't care about its "cultural footprint"

'Avatar: The Way of Water' producer Jon Landau dives into the innovations behind James Cameron's new sequel, and defends against movie's lack of a footprint.

Inverse

20 years ago, Christian Bale made a sci-fi box office disaster — and a secretly great action movie

If you need an emotionless sci-fi world, don’t call Spock. Call Bale.

Inverse

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The scariest town in Illinois does not exist. But you can visit in ‘Halloween Ends’

CHICAGO — Haddonfield, Illinois, does not exist.

Inverse

You need to watch Spielberg's misunderstood sci-fi masterpiece on Amazon Prime ASAP

Spielberg's merciless yet maudlin take on a classic fairytale deserves a revisit.

Evening Standard

Gaming the System: meet the new indie developers changing the game

A brave band of indie game developers is making it their mission to bring positive messages to the world’s three billion gamers, writes Amy Francombe

The Conversation

Never made, destroyed, in a locked safe for 100 years: with Batgirl cancelled, here are 5 other films we will never get to see

Batgirl has become the latest film to be added to a growing list of movies we will never get to see. The US$90 million film had been shot and largely edited, but now the whole thing will be consigned to the cutting room floor.

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Unmade, destroyed, locked away: With Batgirl cancelled, here are five other films we’ll never see

The US$90 million film had been shot and largely edited, but now the whole thing joins other films in being consigned to the cutting room floor.

Inverse

You need to watch the most bombastic sci-fi monster movie on Netflix before it leaves next week

A fascinatingly misguided insight into how the summer blockbuster can go horribly awry.

Inverse

50 years ago, Watergate changed the American political thriller forever

When Richard Nixon’s administration covered up its involvement in the 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee’s offices, a new cinematic catnip was born.

France 24

Ray Liotta, 'Goodfellas' star, dies at 67

Ray Liotta, the blue-eyed actor best known for playing mobster Henry Hill in “Goodfellas” and baseball player Shoeless Joe Jackson in “Field of Dreams,” has died. He was 67

The Guardian - US

Alien 3 at 30: David Fincher’s divisive threequel remains a fascinating failure

The first-time film-maker memorably disowned his grim and grimy Alien movie but a devoted fanbase insists it’s better than its bad reputation

The Independent UK

William Hurt: Oscar-winning star of 1980s films

His performance in ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ earned him the prestigious prize

Reason

The Awful Uncharted Raises the Question: Are Video Game Movies Art?

Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg star in another timid, lifeless video game adaptation.

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