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02 / 9
Start: 11:30
End: 13:30

Twentieth Century
| February 9 & 10
Howard Hawks, 1934, 91m

An egotistical Broadway producer recruits a young starlet, who quickly rises to the top. But things turn sour when the starlet leaves and the producer’s shows flop. Now he’ll do anything he can to get his main attraction back.

Music Box Theatre | 3733 N. Southport Ave. | Chicago, IL 60613 | 773-871-6604 (showtimes)

Start: 23:59

The Fly
February 1 & 2, 8 & 9
David Cronenberg, 1986, 95m

Master of body-horror David Cronenberg turns his eye on the classic sci-fi story of experimentation run amok. When Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) perfects his matter transference device, his curiosity naturally gets the better of him and before long Dr. Brundle isn’t quite the same man he was before.

Start: 23:59

Neverending Story
February 8 & 9
Wolfgang Peterson, 1984, 94m

A lonely schoolboy, alienated from his father and bullied by his classmates, retreats to an attic where he becomes engrossed in a mysterious book. Before long he must rescue fantasy itself from the Nothingness that is born of human apathy.

02 / 10
Start: 11:30

Twentieth Century
| February 9 & 10
Howard Hawks, 1934, 91m

An egotistical Broadway producer recruits a young starlet, who quickly rises to the top. But things turn sour when the starlet leaves and the producer’s shows flop. Now he’ll do anything he can to get his main attraction back.

Music Box Theatre | 3733 N. Southport Ave. | Chicago, IL 60613 | 773-871-6604 (showtimes)

02 / 11
02 / 12
Start: 18:30
End: 20:30

We just received word that 250 advance-screening tickets are now available for a free Chicago screening of “The Spiderwick Chronicles”. These tickets will surely go quickly, so if you’re interested in this film, click the link below and snag your tickets with haste.

02 / 13
Start: 00:00

Snag your free advance-screening movie pass for “Jumper” on Feb. 13 in San Francisco!

02 / 14
Start: 00:00

HollywoodChicago.com film critic Patrick McDonald says in his 3.0 out of 5.0 review of the new film “Jumper”:

Start: 00:00

HollywoodChicago.com critic Dustin Levell says in his 3.5 out of 5.0 review of the new romantic comedy “Definitely, Maybe”:

02 / 15
Start: 00:00

HollywoodChicago.com film critic Patrick McDonald says in his 4.5 out of 5.0 review of the new film “Diary of the Dead”:

Start: 00:00

The Storytellers Theatre Company presents “Beirut”

(Chicago, IL — January 2008): The third season of The Storytellers kicks off with Alan Bowne’s critically-acclaimed Broadway play, “Beirut”, starring Kelley Ristow and company-member Jason LeCompte.

Would you rather love free on the inside or live dead on the outside?

Start: 22:00
End: 23:00

In the sleepy Midwest town of Grossman Falls, Illinois, the annual Snowball dance has long been a rite of passage. Now the school is threatening to cancel the dance citing filthy music and filthier dancing. Students must now fight for their right to hold each other close and walk in slow, awkward circles.

Start: 23:59

Labryinth
February 15 & 16, 22 & 23
Jim Henson, 1986, 102m

Teenage Sarah makes the big mistake one night of wishing her baby brother away and now she must navigate the diabolical Labyrinth and confront the goblin king Jareth in order to rescue him. Another Jim Henson visual feast, featuring songs by David Bowie.

02 / 16
Start: 11:30
End: 13:30

Born Yesterday
| February 16 & 17
George Cukor, 1950, 103m

Junkyard tycoon Harry Brock (Broderick Crawford) has finally made himself enough capital to buy a congressman or two. But in order to court the political elite, he needs to fashion his rough around the edges lover into a proper member of polite society. The problem is, she’s learning her lessons in etiquette a little too well.

Start: 23:59

Labryinth
February 15 & 16, 22 & 23
Jim Henson, 1986, 102m

Teenage Sarah makes the big mistake one night of wishing her baby brother away and now she must navigate the diabolical Labyrinth and confront the goblin king Jareth in order to rescue him. Another Jim Henson visual feast, featuring songs by David Bowie.

02 / 17
Start: 11:30
End: 13:30

Born Yesterday
| February 16 & 17
George Cukor, 1950, 103m

Junkyard tycoon Harry Brock (Broderick Crawford) has finally made himself enough capital to buy a congressman or two. But in order to court the political elite, he needs to fashion his rough around the edges lover into a proper member of polite society. The problem is, she’s learning her lessons in etiquette a little too well.

02 / 18
Start: 00:00

Snag your free advance-screening movie pass for “Be Kind Rewind” on Feb. 18 in Denver!

02 / 19
Start: 00:00

Snag your free advance-screening movie pass for “Be Kind Rewind” on Feb. 19 in Birmingham, Mich.!

02 / 20
02 / 21
02 / 22
Start: 00:00

HollywoodChicago.com film critic Allison Pitaccio says in her 4.5 out of 5.0 review of the new film “Be Kind Rewind”:

Michel Gondry’s latest cinematic breakthrough “Be Kind Rewind” grants passage into his magical imagination and proves yet again he’s one of today’s artistic giants.

Start: 00:00

HollywoodChicago.com film critic Patrick McDonald says in his 1.5 out of 5.0 review of the new film “The Signal”:

There is plenty of style but little substance in this sci-fi twist on torture porn.

Start: 23:59

Labryinth
February 15 & 16, 22 & 23
Jim Henson, 1986, 102m

Teenage Sarah makes the big mistake one night of wishing her baby brother away and now she must navigate the diabolical Labyrinth and confront the goblin king Jareth in order to rescue him. Another Jim Henson visual feast, featuring songs by David Bowie.

Start: 23:59

The Telephone Book
February 22 & 23
Nelson Lyon, 1971 84m

02 / 23
Start: 11:30
End: 13:30

The Miracle on Morgan’s Creek
| February 23 & 24
Preston Sturges, 1944

After a wild farewell party for the troops, Trudy Kockenlocker, a small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers, wakes up to find that she married someone and can’t remember his name. Even worse, he’s disappeared and she learns she’s pregnant.

Start: 23:59

The Telephone Book
February 22 & 23
Nelson Lyon, 1971 84m

Start: 23:59

Labryinth
February 15 & 16, 22 & 23
Jim Henson, 1986, 102m

Teenage Sarah makes the big mistake one night of wishing her baby brother away and now she must navigate the diabolical Labyrinth and confront the goblin king Jareth in order to rescue him. Another Jim Henson visual feast, featuring songs by David Bowie.

02 / 24
Start: 11:30
End: 13:30

The Miracle on Morgan’s Creek
| February 23 & 24
Preston Sturges, 1944

After a wild farewell party for the troops, Trudy Kockenlocker, a small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers, wakes up to find that she married someone and can’t remember his name. Even worse, he’s disappeared and she learns she’s pregnant.

Start: 17:00
End: 23:00

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2007 will be presented on Sunday, February 24, 2008, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network beginning at 5 p.m. PT. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide.

02 / 25
02 / 26
02 / 27
02 / 28
02 / 29
Start: 00:00

HollywoodChicago.com film critic Adam Fendelman says in his 4.0 out of 5.0 review of the new Brazilian slum film “City of Men” from the producers of the Academy Award-nominated film “City of God”:

The plight of the people in the hard-hitting Brazilian film “City of Men” is akin with its plight to make you aware it even exists.

Start: 00:00

HollywoodChicago.com film critic Allison Pitaccio says in her 4.0 out of 5.0 review of the Oscar-winning foreign film “The Counterfeiters”:

Curt wit and intermittent humor allow dialogue to be one of the strongest features of this drama and each actor delivers lines with a truth rarely seen in cinema.

03 / 1
03 / 2
03 / 3
03 / 4
Start: 00:00

I will be attending and reviewing “The Martian Chronicles” on March 4 at the Lincoln Square Theatre. Click here for more information! Here is a description about the Chicago play:

03 / 5
03 / 6
03 / 7
Start: 00:00

HollywoodChicago.com film critic Patrick McDonald says in his 4.0 out of 5.0 review of the new film “Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day” with Frances McDormand and Amy Adams:

Start: 00:00

HollywoodChicago.com film critic Patrick McDonald says in his 4.0 out of 5.0 review of the new film “The Bank Job” with Jason Statham:

Start: 00:00

The House of Yes by Wendy MacLeod
At The Cornservatory, 4210 N. Lincoln
Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM; Sundays at 5PM
March 7-April 13
$18; $10 for students/seniors
$15 with nonperishable food item donation
For reservations, please call 773-327-9725
All food raised will benefit The Lakeview Pantry, Will Act For Food’s partner in community service.

Start: 00:00

HollywoodChicago.com film critic Allison Pitaccio says in her 2.5 out of 5.0 review of the new film “CJ7”:

03 / 8
Start: 20:00
End: 21:30

A team of golden goddesses seemingly are traveling through space. What is their obsession? It’s a flaming eyeball.

Black Forest Theater’s latest production, “The Flaming Eyeball,” is a distillation of three year’s development through many prisms. Writer and director James Moeller began the piece as an exploration of Hollywood movie pitches and then it became the movie itself.

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