CHICAGO – In anticipation of the scariest week of the year, HollywoodChicago.com launches its 2024 Movie Gifts series, which will suggest DVDs and collections for holiday giving.
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Film Review: ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Hints Marvel is Out of Ideas
Submitted by PatrickMcD on July 25, 2024 - 8:04amCHICAGO –In “Wolverine & Deadpool” we witness the complete and utter exhaustion of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This movie is like sitting next to a particularly annoying Twitter/X feed that never stops announcing its own cleverness, but whose quips aren’t nearly as funny as it thinks they are. I may be in the minority, but I’ve always found Deadpool to be a little exhausting.
Podtalk: Filmmaker Sarah Lasley for ‘Welcome to the Enclave’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on July 23, 2024 - 4:26pmCHICAGO – Scheduled within the recent 2024 Chicago Critics Film Festival was “Shorts Program #2.” During that event … curated by CCFF shorts programmer Collin Souter … the Windy City was introduced to Filmmaker Sarah Lasley, with her surreal, expressive and brilliant short “Welcome to the Enclave.”
Podtalk: Michael P. Nash on Updated Issues from HIs 2010 Film ‘Climate Refugees’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on July 20, 2024 - 6:27amCHICAGO – Michael P. Nash is a filmmaker on a mission. As searing heat bakes the country this summer, with extreme weather like severe tornadoes and the recent Galveston floods in its wake, the realities in Nash’s prescient 2010 documentary “Climate Refugees” is coming to our own shores.
Audio Film Review: All Greek to Harry Connick Jr. in ‘Find Me Falling’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on July 19, 2024 - 12:35pmCHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio film review for “Find Me Falling,” featuring Harry Connick Jr. as a depressed rock star and the Greek island country he escapes to go back to his past to help his present. Streaming on Netflix beginning on July 19th.
Film Review: 'Twisters' is the Popcorn Movie it Sets Out to Be
Submitted by PatrickMcD on July 18, 2024 - 6:32amCHICAGO – “Twisters” is the kind of movie seemingly engineered to be seen on a big screen, accompanied by ear splitting sound that rattles your seat. And in that kind of environment, it’s exactly the kind of big dumb popcorn movie it sets out to be, even if it doesn’t add up to much once it’s all over.
Podtalk: Director Greg Kwedar & Producer Monique Walton of ‘Sing Sing’ w/ Colman Domingo
Submitted by PatrickMcD on July 17, 2024 - 6:37pmCHICAGO – The power of performance is on unique display in “Sing Sing,” expanding in theaters this August. It’s directed/co-adapted by Greg Kwedar and features the consummate Colman Domingo. The film is set in the infamous prison, as the incarcerated become a troupe of actors, and how it changes their lives.
Podtalk: Paul Raci, Divine Eye Maclin & Dino Johnson of ‘Sing Sing’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on July 17, 2024 - 5:47pmCHICAGO – The power of performance is on unique display in “Sing Sing,” expanding in theaters this August. It’s directed/co-adapted by Greg Kwedar and features the consummate Colman Domingo. The film is set in the infamous prison, as the incarcerated become a troupe of actors, and how it changes their lives.
Podtalk: Gregg Jaffe for ‘Big Teeth Small Shorts’ Summer ’24 Live Film Fest
Submitted by PatrickMcD on July 16, 2024 - 3:50pmCHICAGO – In filmmaking, the short film is usually the medium where most potential directors do their first works or present a shorter version of what they hope will become a longer film or simply that they prefer that length of story-telling. One of the short films fests that has been around Chicago for several years is the “Big Teeth Small Shorts” presentation, and the founder of Big Teeth Productions … Gregg Jaffe …will be facilitating their Summer ’24 Live Screening on Thursday, July 18th, at FACETS Cinema in Chicago’s DePaul Neighborhood. For details and tickets, click BIG TEETH.
Podtalk: Johnny Brower Remembers John Lennon in ‘REVIVAL69’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on July 16, 2024 - 8:53amCHICAGO – One month after John Lennon made his iconic walk across Abbey Road for that classic album cover, he got a call from Canadian promoter Johnny Brower. Would Lennon play at a Toronto rock show? The answer to that question is told in the recently released rock doc “REVIVAL69: The Concert That Rocked the World.”
Audio Film Review: Blast-Off From the Past in ‘Fly Me to the Moon’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on July 11, 2024 - 3:51amCHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio film review for “Fly Me the Moon,” an alternative history satire about the Apollo 11 first-msn-on-the-moon mission, featuring Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum and Woody Harrelson. In theaters on July 12th.
Podtalk: Richard Knight Jr. for His Music Appearance at Evanston's SPACE
Submitted by PatrickMcD on July 10, 2024 - 8:02pmCHICAGO – Singer/songwriter Richard Knight Jr. believes that “Love is Possible,” so that is the title of his latest album. He will be performing selections from that album and more as he appears at SPACE in Evanston, Illinois, on Monday July 15th, along with Gerald Dowd. For tickets and details, click SPACE.
Podtalk: Brittani Ward for ‘Single Car Crashes’ at Gene Siskel Film Center July 12-14 & 16, 2024
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CHICAGO – Writer/director Brittani Ward is bringing her made-in-Chicagoland feature, “Single Car Crashes” back home to the Gene Siskel Film Center for a special screening run on July 12th-14th & 16th, 2024, after the festival circuit with Cinequest (New Vision Award) and the Midwest Film Fest. For tickets and details, click SCC SISKEL.
Podtalk: Exec Director Karen Cardarelli of FACETS on 2024 So Far
Submitted by PatrickMcD on July 9, 2024 - 6:15pmCHICAGO – It’s been an exciting year so far for the gem of film exhibition, FACETS Cinema in Chicago’s DePaul Neighborhood. And spearheading that excitement is Executive Director Karen Cardarelli, who began in that position in the pandemic year of 2020 and has shepherded FACET’s growth and new programming, in addition to becoming a leader in Chicago’s film scene.
