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😈GENRE • HORROR • CULT
🎥 microcinema / film club in Chicago
🍿 screenings • events • reviews
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In Chicago, the resurgence of microcinemas has evolved to meet the current moment; there is a clear consensus on the power of movies as a way of bringing people together. Across the city, there are more than 20 microcinemas located in at least 12 different communities.

Interestingly, across more than a dozen alternative theaters surveyed, there are no owners or operators whose sole responsibility is running their microcinema; a great majority are also juggling full-time roles, other creative practices, and personal responsibilities.

Read the full story at the link in bio.

✍️ Cortlyn Kelly (@coolkidcort)
📸 Danielle DeGrasse-Levi (slide 1); Courtesy Black Film Club Collective (slide 2); Amber Huff (@berhuff) (slide 3); Courtesy Tough Luck Cinema (slide 4); M. Lamourt Studios (slide 5); Courtesy Logan Square Film Club (slide 6)

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embarking on my annual tour de cinema and picked up a couple of copies of my double-billed presence in the @chicago_reader’s Fall Arts Issue!

debut of my new column (!!!), The Cinema Scrapbook: placing film screenings in conversation with other local creative happenings, illuminating Chicago’s rich cultural connectivity

AND my massive feature about chicagoland’s microcinema scene!!!! i love da movies & i cherish those independently operating to increase access for audiences and makers alike!!!

many many many many many more words coming from me soon 💌🧘🏽‍♀️🫰🏽🧿📽️🎞️✍️ thank you to marina m who captured me so smiley about making my first (short) film & thank you to my magnificent editor @taryn.mcf & thank YOU for reading 🗞️

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🎬☕️ The camera is rolling, the latte is iced, and the body count is about to rise.

Now Brewing – Episode 2 features Jackie (@thejackattaaack) from @toughluckcinema, fueled by a Skull Island coffee and digging deep into the Blu-ray shelf for two killer horror picks worth adding to your watchlist.

No spoilers. No survivors. Just great coffee, great horror, and physical media done right.

Drink coffee. Watch more horror. 🖤

#Horror #HorrorMovies #BluRay #PhysicalMedia horrorcommunity

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🌈HAPPY PRIDE🌈

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🎥 CAROLINA, CAROLINE 🎥 a new film from Adam Carter Rehmeier, hits theaters this weekend! Swipe through to read my Letterboxd review from when I caught it back at @chicagocritics film fest in May…it was my favorite from the whole fest. Thrilling, sexy and surprisingly heartfelt. Don’t sleep on this one!

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05.29.26 /// THE PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE @TOUGHLUCKCINEMA @SPACETIMECHICAGO

thanks so much for inviting us for your first-ever drag programming, @thejackattaaack /// tough luck cinema club! we <3 u.
xo, @ricky_rufff + @delta__badhand of @haus.of.redacted 👻🎸🎞️

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Careful who you wish for ✨OBSESSION hits theaters May 15th. Tix on sale now! Swipe thru to read my full spoiler-free review from last month’s newsletter. I guess you could say I’m… obsessed (Sorry, I’ll see myself out).

#movies #horror #obsession #horrormovies #film

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@toughluckcinema 's recent screening of "Coffee and Cigarettes" made me realize that in addition to fans of the 1900s scientist Nikola Tesla having a good reason to be pissed off at elon musk for ruining the name "Tesla",

fans of underrated 80s rock bands have a righteous reason for indignation, as well

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Community is important now more than ever and we are grateful to a part of this one. Join us if you can for these incredible events in March.

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