CHICAGO – YIPPIE! It’s back, in the neighborhood of its roots. YippieFest 2023 will be August 4th-6th in the Lakeview/Buena Park venue of PRIDE ARTS, 4139 North Broadway in Chicago. The space is less than a half mile from the former Mary-Arrchie Theatre, whose “Abbie Hoffman Festival” was the template for the three-day performance celebration. YippieFest currently has slots for theater acts, including one-act plays, monologue, sketch, improv, vaudeville and other stage performance arts. Artists get free admission to the rest of the festival, so click YiPPIE FEST 2023 to sign up.
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Wild Ride for Keanu Reeves in ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on March 24, 2023 - 12:34pm Rating: 3.5/5.0 |
CHICAGO – The John Wick films have always contained body counts that reach well into triple digits. But in “John Wick: Chapter 4” the series indulges in some serious overkill. Everything you liked about the previous three films is on display, with about 20 percent more of the franchise’s growing mythology surrounding the High Table.
"Chapter 2" Lacks crucial "IT" factor
Submitted by JonHC on September 6, 2019 - 5:14pm- Andy Bean
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- Bill Hader
- Bill Skarsgard
- Chosen Jacobs
- Finn Wolfhard
- Gary Dauberman
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- Isaiah Mustafa
- Jack Dylan Grazer
- Jaeden Martell
- James McAvoy
- James Ransone
- Jay Ray
- Jeremy Ray Taylor
- Jessica Chastain
- Movie Review
- Sophia Lillis
- Spike Walters
- Stephen King
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- Wyatt Oleff
 Rating: 2.5/5.0 |
CHICAGO – “It Chapter 2” has some of the same problems as its source material, and the previous adaptation of the Stephen King spine-tingler. It has a great beginning, but the ensuing story never tops or reaches the same level as that first scene. So in Chapter 2’s slog on to an ultimately unsatisfying ending, we are witnessing a yarn literally unraveling before our very eyes.
Effective Scare Factor & Teenage Traumas Define ‘IT’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on September 7, 2017 - 4:56amRating: 3.5/5.0 |
CHICAGO – “IT” is the kind of film that relies on jump-scares and ghastly images a bit too much, but behind it all is a quirky story – based on a Stephen King novel – about that time in childhood where becoming a teenager and finding a way within the change is adventurous and unsettling.
