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2008 Chicago Latino Film Festival Start: 00:00 The 24th-annual Chicago Latino Film Festival will run from April 4 to 16, 2008. Click here to learn more about this year’s Chicago Latino Film Festival! This text is from the festival: UA 90th Anniv. Film Festival Start: 18:00 End: 20:00 As part of the United Artists 90th Anniversary Film Festival coming to Chicago’s Music Box Theatre in April and May 2008, we just announced a new HollywoodChica Chicago theater: 'Othello' Start: 19:30 End: 22:00 “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. Chicago theater: 'Ceres' Start: 20:00 End: 21:30 The Prop Thtr, which relishes in quipping about its “great air conditioning” in Chicago’s furthest west off-Loop theatre location, puts up the play “Ceres” against the backdrop of the Windy City’s (sometimes) booming financial district. Theater: 'In a Dark Dark House' Start: 20:00 End: 22:00 On the grounds of a private psychiatric facility, two brothers find themselves face-to-face with each other’s involvement in their traumatic past. In court-ordered rehab, Drew calls on his brother, Terry, to corroborate his story of abuse.

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Blu-Ray Review: ‘Swing Vote’ Wastes Great Cast on Predictable Script

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.
Blu-Ray Review: ‘The Wackness’ Releases Dope Features For Slightly Wack Movie

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.