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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Film Feature: HollywoodChicago.com Remembers the Films of Director John G. Avildsen
Submitted by PatrickMcD on June 23, 2017 - 9:29amCHICAGO – His films were more popular than his name, but director John G. Avildsen did put his mark on the last 30 years of 20th Century movies. Avildsen died last week at the age of 81. He is known best for the Oscar Best Picture-winning “Rocky” (1976), but also did the controversial “Joe” (1970), “Save the Tiger” (1973, Best Actor Oscar for Jack Lemmon), John Belushi’s last film “Neighbors” (1981), “The Karate Kid” (1984), “Lean on Me” (1989) and “8 Seconds” (1994). Patrick McDonald, Spike Walters and Jon Espino of HollywoodChicago.com offer three essays on their Avildsen favorites.
Film Feature: The 10 Best Films of 2014, By Nick Allen
Submitted by NickHC on December 31, 2014 - 4:19pm- A Most Violent Year
- Boyhood
- Christopher Nolan
- David Wain
- DMX
- Film Feature
- Frank
- Gary Poulter
- HollywoodChicago.com Content
- Interstellar
- Joe
- List
- Locke
- Marion Cotillard
- Michael Bay
- Nick Allen
- Nightcrawler
- Obvious Child
- Selma
- The Babadook
- The Best Films of 2014
- The LEGO Movie
- The Raid 2
- They Came Together
- Top Five
- Transformers: Age of Extinction
- Two Days One Night
- Whiplash
CHICAGO – Just like every year before it, there were no perfect films in 2014. I do not see this as a negative thing - reaching for greatness is far more electrifying than the plateau of achieving it, as presented in a hustler’s opus like ‘Whiplash,” which specifically eschews applause after a drum solo that just may have been perfection.
Film Review: Captivating Tale of Primal Manhood in David Gordon Green’s ‘Joe’
Submitted by NickHC on April 12, 2014 - 4:05pmCHICAGO – This week in movies about men we have “Joe”, a wild drama about Texas males at their most primal. It is the newest film from director David Gordon Green, and features Nicolas Cage in some of his finest work.
Interview: Director David Gordon Green, Tye Sheridan Talk ‘Joe’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on April 10, 2014 - 7:35pmCHICAGO – When traveling on a Nicolas Cage trip, it’s best to buckle up. Director David Gordon Green collaborated with Cage on the new film, “Joe,” and actor Tye Sheridan (“Tree of Life,” “Mud”) was Cage’s teenage co-star. Cage portrays the title character, a reformed hellraiser who can’t help but have sympathy for a lost soul.