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.
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).