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HollywoodChicago.com just published a new interview with Chicago filmmaker Darryl Roberts on his latest documentary film “America the Beautiful,” which scrutinizes America’s obsession with beauty. Along with “America the Beautiful” in 2007, Roberts also wrote and directed “How U Like Me Now” in 1993 and “The Perfect Model” in 1998. The film screens in Chicago on April 1, 2008. Start: 19:30
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CHICAGO – Joshua Michael Stern’s “Swing Vote” hit theaters at the peak of the Presidential campaign and it’s no coincidence that the Blu-Ray release lands in stores a week before President-Elect Obama takes office. With a great ensemble and old-fashioned sensibility, “Swing Vote” is a film that should work. Like a misguided campaign for office, it just doesn’t come together.
CHICAGO – The coming-of-age comedy “The Wackness” with Josh Peck, Ben Kingsley, Olivia Thirlby, Mary-Kate Olsen, Method Man, and Famke Janssen may feature a bouncing hip-hop soundtrack and be about joyful things like first love, but it’s an oddly inert, haze-filled film, as if the regular marijuana usage in the film cast a haze over the entire project.
“Othello,” which has been dubbed William Shakespeare’s “most intimate” tragedy centered on racism, love, jealousy and betrayal, is at the axis of a man who fanatically desires assimilation into Desdemona’s world.
