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Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck Bring Spark to Mediocre ‘State of Play’
Submitted by BrianTT on April 17, 2009 - 12:21am. Rating: 3.0/5.0 |
CHICAGO – I’ll be the first critic to tell you that they don’t make adult thrillers often enough. I was very disappointed by the lackluster box office take of Tony Gilroy’s ” Duplicity”. But does that mean that we should give all intellectual mysteries a pass? Of course not. And while I want to love Kevin Macdonald’s “State of Play,” a few poor decisions during production keep it back from being the excellent film it could have been.
Superhero Film ‘Hancock’ With No Superhero Ancestry Proves Bold But Deadly Decision
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on July 2, 2008 - 2:19am. Rating: 2.0/5.0 |
CHICAGO – With superhero films as hot in 2008 as psychedelics were in the 1960s, the new blockbuster superhero film “Hancock” fits in with the label but without any of the ancestry.
‘Juno’ the First LiveJournal, Blogger Film; Writer Diablo Cody a Standout Star
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on October 16, 2007 - 9:30pm.
AUSTIN, Texas – No one says anything plainly in “Juno”. Hyper clever, hyper literate and hyper pop savvy, it tells a light story of teenage pregnancy in a package of verbose middle classiness.
‘The Kingdom’ a Prescient Portrayal of Relentless Ghost in the Terrorist Machine
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on September 28, 2007 - 8:37pm.
CHICAGO – In 1967, author Arthur Koestler wrote the non-fiction book “The Ghost in the Machine”.
