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: Hair-Raising Black & White! On-Air Review of ‘Cruella’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on May 30, 2021 - 10:29pmCHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on The Eddie Volkman Show on WSSR-FM (Star 96.7 Joliet, Illinois) on May 28th, 2021, reviewing the new Walt Disney release “Cruella,” opening in theaters on May 28th, 2021.
Film Review: Fixing a Hole! On-Air Review of ‘Four Good Days’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on May 1, 2021 - 8:30amCHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Dan Baker on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on April 29th, 2021, reviewing the new film “Four Good Days” in theaters (check local listings) beginning April 30th.
Oscar 2021: And the Nominees Are … in a Exclusive Slideshow by Photographer Joe Arce
Submitted by PatrickMcD on April 25, 2021 - 7:59amCHICAGO – Roll out the red carpet on Oscar Day 2021! Throughout the years, Photographer Joe Arce of HollywoodChicago has had close encounters with many of this year’s nominees and had captured them with his intrepid camera eye. Presenting a slideshow of the 93rd Academy Awards Best Acting nominations.!—break—>
Film Review: ‘The Wife’ is Classic Drama & Relevant Social History
Submitted by PatrickMcD on August 23, 2018 - 11:58pmCHICAGO – One of the more fascinating questions about civilization is ‘how much talent went unrealized because of time and place of birth?’ The patriarchy – which denied people of color and women for so long – often reduced fellow travelers into subservient roles. For example, there were women who were just known as “The Wife.”
Film Review: ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ a Gleeful Space Romp
Submitted by PatrickMcD on August 3, 2014 - 6:01amCHICAGO – “Guardians Of The Galaxy” is a gleeful Star Wars knockoff dressed up in Marvel Comics clothing. It occupies the same universe as Marvel’s other properties, but its tone is decidedly sillier. It has a spirit more akin to the later joke heavy installments of the Star Trek franchise or low budget exploitation mogul Roger Corman’s “Battle Beyond The Stars” than the ponderous pontificating of “Thor.”
TV Review: Fifth, Final Season of ‘Damages’ Starts with a Bang
Submitted by BrianTT on July 11, 2012 - 1:41pmCHICAGO – “Damages” is back for its fifth and final season and there’s every reason to believe the award-winning show is going to end on a high note given the strength of the first two episodes of this impressive final arc. We’re finally going to get what we’ve been dying to see since the amazing first season — Patty vs. Ellen in a court of law.
Film Review: Glenn Close, Janet McTeer in Melancholy ‘Albert Nobbs’
Submitted by BrianTT on January 27, 2012 - 11:51amRating: 3.5/5.0 |
CHICAGO – People who put themselves in boxes often go through their entire lives without meeting anyone who show them what it’s like on the outside. There’s every possibility that the tragically confined title character in “Albert Nobbs” would have remained in her box till her death if not for a chance encounter with someone who shows her that there is another way. The sad drama that follows charts her attempt to break free and realization that it may have come too late.
Blu-Ray Review: Horrible ‘Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil’
Submitted by BrianTT on August 22, 2011 - 1:14pmCHICAGO – Rarely has a theatrical kids movie been more of a complete disaster than “Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil,” recently released on Blu-ray and DVD. The film was such a train wreck that it sat on the shelf for years and was unceremoniously dumped in theaters in early 2011 with nearly no marketing and no promotion. The film barely crested $10 million at the domestic box office (only 20% of the original’s take) and I feel sorry for those paying customers. This is a truly soulless, horrendous piece of animated filmmaking, one of the worst films of 2011.
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 10 ‘Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil’ DVDs With Hayden Panettiere
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on August 21, 2011 - 5:19pmCHICAGO – In our latest comedy/animation/family edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: DVD, we have 10 DVDs up for grabs in advance of the home entertainment release of “Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil” with Hayden Panettiere!
TV Review: Glenn Close, Rose Byrne Return For More ‘Damages’
Submitted by BrianTT on July 12, 2011 - 3:31pmCHICAGO – Can DirecTV do what so many other companies have failed to do and actually rewrite the way shows make it to air? They did something truly remarkable with their deal to co-produce and co-air “Friday Night Lights” and now they have taken it a step further by exclusively airing the new season of “Damages,” starting tomorrow night, July 13th, 2011.