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.
Stand Up Comics
Podtalk: Ruth Leitman for Her Doc ‘No One Asked You’ at FACETS Chicago on Nov. 2-4, 2024
Submitted by PatrickMcD on November 1, 2024 - 6:09pmCHICAGO – Abortion rights and women’s healthcare privacy has been under attack since Roe v Wade was overturned due in part to the Donald Trump-appointees on the Supreme Court. Comedian Lizz Winstead has found a way to fight back … creating road trip comedy events and aid to the clinics under siege. Documentary director Ruth Leitman chronicles Winstead’s activities in “No One Asked You,” which will screen thrice at FACETS Chicago. For tickets and more information, CLICK HERE.
Oscar Week: Kumail Nanjiani, Emily V. Gordon of ‘The Big Sick’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on March 2, 2018 - 9:44amCHICAGO – One of the surprise hits of 2017 was a film based on a true life courtship incident, that the now husband and wife – Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon – fashioned into a comedy. “The Big Sick” is nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and the duo behind it talked to HollywoodChicago.com last summer.
Interview, Audio: Kumail Nanjiani, Emily V. Gordon of ‘The Big Sick’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on July 1, 2017 - 2:36pmCHICAGO – One the hottest films to come out of the Sundance Film Festival in January was “The Big Sick,” which was written by Kumail Nanjiani (Dinesh in “Silicon Valley”) and his wife Emily V. Gordon. It is the based-on-truth story of the couple’s initial meeting, and the circumstances surrounding their early dating life.
