Interview: Director Steve Conrad Elevates Chicago Setting, Sean William Scott...
CHICAGO– Barring extreme wealth or hermetics, everyone uses the grocery store. It is the great equalizer – the marketplace where all socioeconomic groups can co-exist side by side – in pursuit of daily...
View ArticleInterview: Rainn Wilson Lays Down Tracks Beyond ‘The Office’ in New Film ‘The...
CHICAGO– Rainn Wilson is more than just the popular NBC character Dwight Schrute. The bespectacled antagonist of “The Office” is nowhere in evidence this time around as Wilson sat down with...
View ArticleSlideshow: 19-Image Gallery For ‘Confessions of a Shopaholic’ With Isla Fisher
Previous | Image 1 of 19 | Next(L-R) Tim Ware, Hugh Dancy, Isla FisherCHICAGO– This 19-image slideshow contains the official press images for “Confessions of a Shopaholic,” which was directed by P.J....
View ArticleFilm Review: Low Grade on Report Card For ‘Easy A’ With Emma Stone
CHICAGO - “Easy A” is simply a hard film to swallow. Set in a high school on another planet, it wants everything and ends up giving very little. The cast is game - Emma Stone, Patricia Clarkson,...
View ArticleFilm Review: Only the Kiddies Will Connect to ‘The Smurfs’
CHICAGO– There is nothing wrong with “The Smurfs” that a thousand volts of electricity couldn’t cure. It is well made, looks good in the optional 3-D and has a competent cast trying their hardest. What...
View ArticleTV Review: FX’s New Animated Series ‘Unsupervised’ Offers Fresh Take on Teens
CHICAGO– It’s tough being a high school freshman nowadays. Your parents either don’t pay enough attention to you or they pay way too much. There’s peer pressure everywhere — smoking, partying, getting...
View ArticleFilm Review: Funny, Political ‘The Dictator’ with Sacha Baron Cohen
CHICAGO– Ali G, Borat, Bruno and the Stationmaster Guy in “Hugo” is now “The Dictator.” Sacha Baron Cohen puts on another character mask and produces his usual style of cheap laughs with a surprising...
View ArticleFilm Review: Despite One Premise, Laughs Are Plenty in ‘The Little Hours’
CHICAGO– It occurred to me in assessing “The Little Hours” that the basic premise is somewhat like “The Beguiled” – a man is taken in, rooster-like, into a henhouse where there are women with “needs.”...
View ArticleFilm Review: Illuminating! On-Air Review of ‘The Sparks Brothers’
CHICAGO– Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on The Eddie Volkman Show on WSSR-FM (Star 96.7 Joliet, Illinois) on June 18th, 2021, reviewing the new documentary “The Sparks Brothers,”...
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