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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 Film premiere: 'At the Death House Door' Start: 19:00 End: 21:00 The sobering documentary “At the Death House Door” on the death penalty will premiere in Chicago on May 10, 2008 from “Hoop Dreams” filmmakers Steve James and Peter Gilbert. Click here for our full preview story on this. 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. Theater: 'Shout! The Mod Musical' Start: 23:00 HollywoodChicago.com critic Adam Fendelman wrote in his review of the new musical “Shout! The Mod Musical”: Adam Fendelman wrote:The musical is the story of five fab women in London being liberated as children of the swinging 60s with the hair, heart and soul of the twist-and-shout generation.

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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.