The Chicago Reader Movie Blog

A new addition to the small blogroll at the right is the Chicago Reader On Film, where the Reader's critics, limited in the weekly paper by space constraints, can write about movie topics that might not fit a standard review column, or might not be reviews at all—Jonathan Rosenbaum takes on spoiler-obsessives in the blog's inaugural post. (Although I think he generally misses the point when he says "The whole concept of spoilers invariably privileges plot over style and form, assumes that everybody in the public thinks that way, and implies that people shouldn't think any differently"—I'm not a spoiler-obsessive, but I can pretty definitively answer right, wrong, and wrong to that statement.) It should be an interesting experiment; at the very least I hope it will introduce more people to J.R. Jones, the paper's second critic who will presumably take over when Rosenbaum retires.