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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: Review: Ellen Page's 'Smart People' Start: 00:00 HollywoodChicago.com film critic Adam Fendelman wrote in his 2.5 out of 5.0 review of the new film “Smart People” with Ellen Page, Thomas Haden Church, Dennis Quaid and Sarah Jessica Parker: 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. 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.

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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.