CHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio review for the doc series “Charlie Hustle & the Matter of Pete Rose,” about the rise and bitter fall of the major league legend, the MLB’s all-time hits leader, only to be banned from the sport because of gambling. Streaming on MAX and on HBO since July 24th.
A Raisin in the Sun
Film Feature: HollywoodChicago.com Remembers Sidney Poitier
Submitted by PatrickMcD on January 10, 2022 - 2:34pm- 94
- A Raisin in the Sun
- Blackboard Jungle
- Dead
- Dies
- Film News
- Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
- HollywoodChicago.com Content
- In the Heat of the Night
- Jon Lennon Espino
- Let’s Do it Again
- Lilies of the Field
- Michael Spike Walters
- No Way Out
- Obituary
- Passed Away
- Patrick McDonald
- Sidney Poitier is Dead
- Sneakers
- The Defiant Ones
- To Sir with Love
CHICAGO – With the passing of actor Sidney Poitier at the age of 94 on January 6th, 2022, another lion of the cinema – who represented succinctly an era of the movies – has left the mortal coil. HollywoodChicago.com presents the following appreciation through three film essays in retrospect by Patrick McDonald, Spike Walters and Jon Lennon Espino.
Flashback Podtalk, Photo: Jussie Smollett on The Red Carpet in 2017
Submitted by PatrickMcD on February 21, 2019 - 10:21pmCHICAGO – Before everything else happened, Jussie Smollett was an actor from the TV series “Empire” and portrayed Langston Hughes in the film “Marshall” … featuring Chadwick Boseman of “Black Panther” as young Thurgood Marshall. Smollett walked the Red Carpet for the film in 2017, at the 53rd Chicago International Film Festival.
