CHICAGO – The Steppenwolf Theatre of Chicago continues to provide different viewpoints on the American stage, and their latest “Little Bear Ridge Road” is no exception. Featuring ensemble member Laurie Metcalf, it’s the resonate story of a family at the crossroads. For tickets/details, click LITTLE BEAR.
Lukas Moodysson
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 50 Pairs of Passes to Film Festival Hit ‘We Are the Best!’
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on June 19, 2014 - 9:27pmCHICAGO – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the Swedish film festival hit “We Are the Best!”! This film centers on a group of teen girls who decide to form a punk band in 1988.
DVD Review: ‘Mammoth’ Takes Quietly Powerful Approach to Preachy Material
Submitted by mattmovieman on April 21, 2010 - 8:27amCHICAGO – The relationship between American families and their foreign maids is a subject that has been tackled in a variety of previous indie pictures, from Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “Babel” to Todd Solondz’s “Storytelling.” Yet in “Mammoth,” the English-language debut from Swedish-born filmmaker Lukas Moodysson, the material is dealt with in a refreshingly humanistic way, devoid of sensationalism (the story concludes with neither deportation nor asphyxiation).
