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.
The Ghost Writer
Blu-Ray Review: ‘Cul-de-sac’ From Masterful Director Roman Polanski
Submitted by BrianTT on August 17, 2011 - 3:20pmCHICAGO – Whatever you may think about Roman Polanski as a human being (or a criminal for that matter), it is simply undeniable that he is one of our best living filmmakers. From “Repulsion” to “Chinatown” to “The Pianist” to “The Ghost Writer” — he’s a master of the form, one of my absolute favorite directors of all time. One of his lesser-known works (that would be the best film of many other director’s entire careers but arguably doesn’t even rank top ten for Polanski) is the tense, taut “Cul-de-sac,” given the special edition treatment this week by The Criterion Collection.
Film Feature: The Top Overlooked Films of 2010
Submitted by BrianTT on December 28, 2010 - 10:55amCHICAGO – Some films never get a fair shot with audiences. They open in a handful of art house theaters scattered throughout the country before inconspicuously landing on DVD.
Film Feature: The 10 Best Films of 2010
Submitted by BrianTT on December 20, 2010 - 9:29amCHICAGO – When we look back on this past year in cinema, what will we remember? Ironically, a year after “Avatar” was supposed to change the movie paradigm forever, it’s the human faces that I most vividly remember from 2010.
Blu-Ray Review: Roman Polanski’s Brilliant Thriller ‘The Ghost Writer’
Submitted by BrianTT on August 9, 2010 - 1:13pmCHICAGO – Roman Polanski’s name has drawn a lot of media attention in 2010 due to his continued international legal problems but the controversy regarding his real life has overshadowed the fact that he recently made one of the best films of his career, the tragically underrated and straight-up brilliant “The Ghost Writer,” a must-see now that it’s on Blu-ray and DVD.
2010 Summit Pictures Preview: ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,’ ‘Remember Me’
Submitted by BrianTT on December 31, 2009 - 3:16pmCHICAGO – Summit Pictures has released a slate of images from their 2010 films including “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,” “Remember Me” (starring Robert Pattinson), “The Ghost Writer,” “Furry Vengeance,” and “Letters From Juliet”.