Events

« Friday May 16, 2008 »
Fri
"America the Beautiful" Start: 10:28 End: 10:28 “America the Beautiful,” a documentary about America’s unhealthy obsession with beauty, is playing an exclusive engagement at the Landmark Century Centre Cinema (2828 N. Clark Street), where it was the top grossing film of the weekend, and the #2 independently released film (per screen average) in the nation. Here’s what critics are saying about “America the Beautiful” 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.

User Login

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.