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HollywoodChicago.com film critic Patrick McDonald has interviewed “Standard Operating Procedure” director Errol Morris on his new Iraqi war documentary. Morris said in the interview: Everybody dumps on the [soldier participants] and dumps on the bad apples. As far as everyone is concerned, they are evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. End of discussion. | ||
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.
