CHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Dan Baker on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on March 21st, 2024, reviewing the new streaming series “Manhunt” – based on the bestseller by James L. Swanson – currently streaming on Apple TV+.
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On Air Review: Dior & Chanel Design ‘The New Look’ on Apple TV+
Submitted by PatrickMcD on February 24, 2024 - 10:20amCHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Ben Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on February 22th, 2024, reviewing the Apple TV+ series “The New Look,” which profiles the real people and their WW2-era decisions, behind fashion’s greatest names and brands. Currently streaming on the Apple TV+ platform.
On-Air Film Review: Eggers Regards Shakespeare in ‘The Northman’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on April 21, 2022 - 12:46pmCHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on April 21st, reviewing “The Northman,” an adaptation of the legend that inspired Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” by visionary writer/director Robert Eggers. In theaters April 22nd.
Film Review: Rosebud! On-Air Reviews of ‘Mank’ & ‘The Last Vermeer’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on November 19, 2020 - 7:13pm- Amanda Seyfried
- Citizen Kane
- Claes Bang
- Gary Oldman
- Guy Pierce
- Herman Mankiewicz
- HollywoodChicago.com Content
- Mank
- Monroe
- Movie Review
- Nazis
- Netflix
- Orson Welles
- Patrick McDonald
- Rosebud
- Scott Thompson
- The Last Vermeer
- The Morning Mess
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- WBGR-FM
- William Randolph Hearst
- Wisconsin
- World War II
CHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on November 19th, 2020, reviewing the new films “Mank” (in theaters, on Netflix December 4th) and “The Last Verneer” (in theaters).
Film Review: Story Spins Out of Reach for ‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on November 9, 2018 - 5:30pm- Claes Bang
- Claire Foy
- Columbia Pictures
- Fede Alvarez
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- Lakeith Stanfield
- Lisbeth Salander
- Movie Review
- Patrick McDonald
- Rooney Mara
- Steig Larsson
- Stephen Merchant
- Stockholm
- Sverrir Gudnason
- Sylvia Hooks
- The Girl in the Spider’s Web
- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
- Vicky Krieps
CHICAGO – There is nothing wrong with revisiting The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. That tattoo has made beaucoup bucks in book and film forms (both foreign language and Americanized versions), and Claire Foy taking over for Rooney Mara in the title role is seamless. So why the totally lackluster story? Is this a narrative source problem?
Film Review: Art & Real World Taken to Task in Angular ‘The Square’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on November 23, 2017 - 1:54pmCHICAGO – Recently, the record for highest bid ever on a work of art was shattered – $450 million for Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Salvador Mundi’ – and the ownership of a canvas, for the price of supporting a small country, calls into question the meaning of art and collecting. All of this, and everything more, is generated in the cinematic rendering of “The Square.”
