CHICAGO – Excelsior! Comic book legend Stan Lee’s famous exclamation puts a fine point on the third and final play of Mark Pracht’s FOUR COLOR TRILOGY, “The House of Ideas,” presented by and staged at City Lit Theater in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood. For tickets/details, click HOUSE OF IDEAS.
Food, Inc.
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Free DVDs to ‘Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,’ ‘Food, Inc.,’ ‘Man on Wire’
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on November 9, 2010 - 12:34amCHICAGO – In this edition of the HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: DVD, two lucky winners will win three DVDs each from Magnolia Pictures for the movies “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,” “Man on Wire” and “Food, Inc.” in support of the new film “Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer” from Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney!
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: ‘Countdown to Zero’ Signed Poster, DVDs to ‘No End in Sight,’ ‘Food, Inc.,’ ‘Man on Wire’
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on August 12, 2010 - 11:03amCHICAGO – In this edition of the HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: DVD, one lucky winner will clean up with three DVDs from Magnolia Pictures for the movies “Man on Wire,” “Food, Inc.” and “No End in Sight” plus a full-size poster for “Countdown to Zero” signed by director Lucy Walker, producer Lawrence Bender and narrator Valerie Plame Wilson!
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Free Posters, Magnolia DVDs to ‘Man on Wire,’ ‘Food, Inc.,’ ‘Jesus Camp’
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on May 15, 2010 - 1:50pmCHICAGO – Following our rave review this week of the new documentary “Casino Jack and the United States of Money” and following our Hookup this week with 50 free advance-screening passes to the film in Chicago, we’ve secured even more!
DVD Review: ‘The Cove’ Captures Truths That Deserve Global Awareness
Submitted by BrianTT on December 10, 2009 - 3:44pmCHICAGO – Ric O’Barry made the world fall in love with dolphins. He captured and trained the five dolphins used in the classic TV series, “Flipper.” But as he learned more about these extraordinarily intelligent, self-aware creatures, he became increasingly disturbed about the detrimental effects of their captivity.
Blu-Ray Review: Galvanizing ‘Food, Inc.’ is Riveting, Must-See Viewing
Submitted by BrianTT on November 9, 2009 - 2:23pmCHICAGO – If you thought Al Gore’s truth was inconvenient, get a load of the one presented by filmmaker Robert Kenner. To paraphrase Peter Finch, Kenner’s new documentary is guaranteed to make viewers exclaim, “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to eat the same way anymore.”
‘Food, Inc.’: An Undercooked Documentary With Simply Too Much on Its Plate
Submitted by Ebeth on June 19, 2009 - 1:19pmCHICAGO – The side effect of a well-executed horror film is lack of sleep. The side effect of a well-executed documentary on corruption of our food supply is lack of appetite. Personally? I left “Food, Inc.,” went straight to lunch and had a big ole’ fried-chicken salad.
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 20 Admit-Two Passes to ‘Food, Inc.’ Screening in Chicago
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on June 3, 2009 - 6:53pmCHICAGO – In our latest edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 20 admit-two passes up for grabs to the Chicago screening of the new documentary “Food, Inc.,” which lifts the veil on the nation’s food industry from filmmaker Robert Kenner.