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CHICAGO – Society, or at least certain elements of society, are always looking for scapegoats to hide the sins of themselves and authority. In the so-called “great America” of the 1950s, the scapegoat target was comic books … specifically through a sociological study called “The Seduction of the Innocent.” City Lit Theater Company, in part two of a trilogy on comic culture by Mark Pracht, presents “The Innocence of Seduction … now through October 8th, 2023. For details and tickets, click COMIC BOOK.
On-Air Film Review: Merry NES! Review of ‘8 Bit Christmas’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on December 5, 2021 - 12:01am
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“8 Bit Christmas” is currently streaming on HBO Max. Featuring Neal Patrick Harris, Steve Zahn, Winslow Fegley, June Diane Raphael and Bellaluna Resnick. Written by Kevin Jakubowski. Directed by Michael Dowse. Rated “PG”
Click here for Patrick McDonald’s full on-air review of “8 Bit Christmas”
8 Bit Christmas
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Click here for Patrick McDonald’s full on-air review of “8 Bit Christmas”
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CHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Ben Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on December 2nd, 2021, reviewing a Christmas film currently streaming on HBO Max, a nostalgic look back on a 1980s childhood aptly entitled “8 Bit Christmas.”
 Rating: 3.0/5.0 |
The film is set in Chicagoland, and the obsession of the main character is for the latest video game console … in this 1980s case an old school Nintendo NES. Jake is portrayed as an adult by Neal Patrick Harris, who forces his daughter to listen to the story of how he procured his Nintendo unit that remarkably still works. Young Jake is portrayed by Winslow Fegley in flashbacks, and the story makes references to lost things like Malls, Marshall Fields and Bears Championships.
Click here for Patrick McDonald’s full on-air review of “8 Bit Christmas”8 Bit Christmas
Photo credit: HBO Max/Warner Bros.
Click here for Patrick McDonald’s full on-air review of “8 Bit Christmas”
