Tagged: Chicago

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1980s / Comedy / Romance

Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985)

Repressed teenager Janey Glenn (Parker) is newly moved to Chicago with her newly retired military dad, mom, and younger brother, having been enrolled in an all-girls Catholic school, but making a fast friend with...

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2010s / Comedy

Bad Moms (2016)

Bad Moms is one of the more pushy raunchy comedies you’ll likely come across, a film so reliant on using vulgarity as a crutch it has characters drop F-bombs at their children’s schools and during...

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2010s / Action / Science Fiction / Thriller

Allegiant (2016)

At this point in the Divergent series, the makers have decided that they have little chance of actually coming out of the shadow of the Hunger Games series to be thought of as anything more than a blatant...

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2010s / Action / Science Fiction / Thriller

Insurgent (2015)

The Divergent series is like that stick of chewing gum you popped into your mouth before a big meeting that you keep chewing on long, long, long after the flavor has gone.  You want to spit...

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1990s / Horror / Science Fiction / Thriller

Flatliners (1990)

Flatliners is a difficult film to pigeonhole.  It’s sci-fi, but not really, and it’s horror, but not really that either.  It’s more like a supernatural drama/thriller that dabbles with the question of the afterlife,...

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2010s / Science Fiction / Thriller

Divergent (2014)

Comparisons will immediately be drawn between Divergent and The Hunger Games, as both are dystopian sci-fi film series based on a trilogy of young adult novels written by women, featuring teenage female protagonists in an action-thriller scenario...

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1980s / Adventure / Comedy / Thriller

Adventures in Babysitting (1987)

Adventures in Babysitting is Chris Columbus’s directorial debut, after years of screenwriting for such Spielberg-produced hits as Gremlins and The Goonies, putting his name on the map as a go-to director of broad family entertainment.  He more than borrows...

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1970s / Comedy / Drama

The Sting (1973)

The duo of Robert Redford (The Candidate, Three Days of the Condor) and Paul Newman (Cool Hand Luke, Torn Curtain) reunite for another classic, directed by George Roy Hill (Slap Shot, Funny Farm), who had worked with...

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2010s / Action / Mystery / Science Fiction / Thriller

Source Code (2011)

Oh, how to relate the plot? Jake Gyllenhaal (Prince of Persia, Jarhead) stars as Air Force Captain Colter Stevens, a U.S. pilot in the War in Afghanistan who finds himself inhabiting the body of a...

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1980s / Comedy / Fantasy / Science Fiction

Weird Science (1985)

In April of 1984, on the strength of his yet-to-be-released debut feature as director, Sixteen Candles, and his scripts for The Breakfast Club and Weird Science, the prolific John Hughes entered into a $30...