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Musical: 'Avenue Q' in Chicago Start: 23:00 HollywoodChicago.com critic Patrick McDonald wrote in his 2.5 out of 5.0 review of the new musical “Avenue Q” at Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theatre: Patrick McDonald wrote:There is an old show-business saying that a “cheap laugh is better than no laugh”. “Avenue Q” practically bases its whole show on that adage. Still, the audience had a rollicking good time with the premise. 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. Interview: 'Kung Fu Panda' co-directors Start: 23:00 HollywoodChicago.com film critic Patrick McDonald has interviewed co-directors Mark Osborne and John Stevenson and has written in his 5.0 out of 5.0 review of the new animated film “Kung Fu Panda” starring Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Ian McShane, Jackie Chan, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu, David Cross, Dan Fogler and Michael Clarke Duncan: Film review: 'You Don't Mess with the Zohan' Start: 23:00 HollywoodChicago.com film critic Adam Fendelman wrote in his 3.5 out of 5.0 review of the new film “You Don’t Mess with the Zohan” starring Adam Sandler and co-written by Sandler and Judd Apatow:

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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.