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.
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On-Air Film Review: Sean Wang’s ‘Didi’ Seems Like Teen Spirit
Submitted by PatrickMcD on August 2, 2024 - 10:46amCHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on August 1st, reviewing “Didi,” set in the summer of 2008, with a 13-year-old boy experiencing the season before Freshman Year. In theaters on August 2nd.
TV Review: HBO’s Disappointing ‘Hemingway & Gellhorn’ with Clive Owen, Nicole Kidman
Submitted by BrianTT on May 28, 2012 - 10:00amCHICAGO – It pains me to say this — HBO’s “Hemingway & Gellhorn” is a complete mess, a film littered with awful directorial decisions, built on a misguided screenplay, and featuring performances that range from mediocre to downright horrendous. I’m as big a cheerleader for HBO and their line of original films as you’re likely to find but this is one of the worst.
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 35 Chicago Passes to ‘Mao’s Last Dancer’ With Bruce Greenwood
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on August 11, 2010 - 1:07amCHICAGO – In our latest drama edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 35 admit-two passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of the new film “Mao’s Last Dancer”!