“The Meg”
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Black Harvest Film Festival 2018
(Siskel, August 4-30)
The twenty-fourth edition of the showcase of independent cinema offers eighteen features and thirty-four shorts, and includes an appearance by Rusty Cundieff with one of his pioneering 1990s movies.
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The Captain
(Music Box, Opens Friday, August 3)
Char-black fact-based drama set in waning weeks of the Third Reich is a tonally insolent thrill dissecting the timeless, fathomless urge to follow.
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The Meg
(Opens Friday, August 10)
Jason Statham versus a seventy-foot shark. “Jaws” vs. “Crank”?
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BlackKkKlansman
(Opens Friday, August 10)
Spike Lee’s latest comic vehemence is shepherded by producers Jordan Peele and Jason Blum, bringing 1970s period crimes into the modern moment.
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Crazy Rich Asians
(Opens Wednesday, August 15)
Comedy of color rushes the stage to high expectations.
Ray Pride is Newcity’s film critic and a contributing editor to Filmmaker magazine.
His history of Chicago “Ghost Signs” in words and images is in the works. Previews on Twitter (twitter.com/chighostsigns) as well as photography on Instagram: instagram.com/raypride.
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