CHICAGO – It began with a boy and his dream (nightmare?). John LaFlamboy, to be exact, as he took an idea he had in college and made it his life’s work. He owns and operates the HellsGate Haunted House in Lockport (Illinois), which was designed, built and put together by Haunted House experts expressly for the spookiest month of the year. For info on how to purchase tickets, click HellsGate.
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Podtalk: Filmmaker Cooper Raiff is Doing the ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on June 16, 2022 - 1:14pmCHICAGO – Cooper Raiff was ready for his close-up. His improbable journey to filmmaker, aided in part by a random tweet to Jay Duplass, came to fruition with the success at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival with “Cha Cha Real Smooth.” The film streams on Apple TV+ beginning June 17th, 2022.!—break—>
CCFF2022: Opening Night Portraits of Director/Actor Cooper Raiff for ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on May 14, 2022 - 9:56amCHICAGO – The lines were out the door, the buzz was in the air and the Opening Night film of the 9th Chicago Critics Film Festival (CCFF) was “Cha Cha Real Smooth.” The Fest continues through May 19th, click CCFF for schedule and ticket info.
Film News: 2022 Sundance Film Festival in the Home Stretch
Submitted by PatrickMcD on January 28, 2022 - 3:08pm- 2022
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- Am I Okay
- Awards
- Dakota Johnson
- Documentary
- Dramatic
- Film News
- Filmmakers
- Finland
- Girl Picture
- HollywoodChicago.com Content
- Lulu
- My Old School
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CHICAGO – The 2022 Sundance Film Festival is on Day Nine, and will be announcing their top film honorees on January 28th. The festival is wrapping up as virtual/online, meaning anyone/anywhere with a ticket or a pass (link) can indulge in the film offerings and events throughout the festival, which runs until January 30th.
On-Air Film Review: Now I’m Found! ’The Lost Daughter’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on December 31, 2021 - 4:57pmCHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on December 30th, 2021, reviewing the directorial debut of actor Maggie Gyllenhaal, “The Lost Daughter,” currently streaming on Netflix.
Film Review: HollywoodChicago.com Reviews of ‘The High Note,’ ’The Vast of Night,’ Bonus
Submitted by PatrickMcD on June 1, 2020 - 10:04amCHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on May 29th, 2020, discussing new releases “The High Note” (VOD) and “The Vast of Night” (Amazon Prime) and BONUS review.!—break—>
Film Review: Final Chapter of ’Fifty Shades Freed’ for Masochists Only
Submitted by PatrickMcD on February 10, 2018 - 10:51amCHICAGO – Only masochists and other gluttons for punishment will be heading to the theaters for “Fifty Shades Freed.” But be sure to grab a blindfold, because you can at least get 40 winks while the incompetent and unintentionally hilarious Fifty Shades Trilogy reaches its deadly dull climax.
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 50 Pairs of Passes to ‘Fifty Shades Freed’ With Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on February 5, 2018 - 10:27am- Adam Fendelman
- Arielle Kebbel
- Brant Daugherty
- Bruce Altman
- Callum Keith Rennie
- Dakota Johnson
- E.L. James
- Eloise Mumford
- Eric Johnson
- Fifty Shades Freed
- HollywoodChicago.com Content
- HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film
- James Foley
- Jamie Dornan
- Luke Grimes
- Marcia Gay Harden
- Max Martini
- Niall Leonard
- Rita Ora
- Robinne Lee
- Universal Pictures
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CHICAGO – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the highly anticipated new film “Fifty Shades Freed” starring Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan!
Film Review: ‘Fifty Shades Darker’ is More Silly Than Sexy
Submitted by PatrickMcD on February 10, 2017 - 10:24amCHICAGO – While offering a veritable sex scene smorgasboard, “Fifty Shades Darker” fails to offer much in the way of anything that is actually sexy. As the mousy Anastasia Steele and the billionaire Mr. Grey, Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan are slightly more comfortable in their roles than they were the first time around.
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 40 Pairs of Passes to ‘Fifty Shades Darker’ With Dakota Johnson
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on February 6, 2017 - 12:01pm- Adam Fendelman
- Bella Heathcote
- Dakota Johnson
- E.L. James
- Eric Johnson
- Fifty Shades Darker
- Fifty Shades of Grey
- HollywoodChicago.com Content
- HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film
- James Foley
- Jamie Dornan
- Jennifer Ehle
- Kim Basinger
- Luke Grimes
- Marcia Gay Harden
- Max Martini
- Niall Leonard
- Rita Ora
- Tyler Hoechlin
- Universal Pictures
CHICAGO – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 40 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the highly anticipated new film “Fifty Shades Darker” starring Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan!
Film Review: Shapeless ‘How to Be Single’ is Dreadfully Unfunny
Submitted by PatrickMcD on February 13, 2016 - 3:07pmCHICAGO – Rebel Wilson’s raunchy and vulgar schtick is now way past its freshness date, but she’s the only one able to elicit any chuckles in this otherwise woebegone women-behaving-badly, anti-romantic comedy, “How to Be Single.”
