CHICAGO – When two brothers confront the sins of each other and it expands into a psychology of an entire race, it’s at a stage play found in Chicago’s Invictus Theatre Company production of “Topdog/Underdog,” now at their new home at the Windy City Playhouse through March 31st, 2024. Click TD/UD for tickets/info.
Rebecca Hall
Got to Begin Again! On-Air Film Review of ‘Resurrection’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on August 3, 2022 - 7:46amRating: 3.5/5.0 |
CHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on The Eddie Volkman Show with Hannah B on WSSR-FM (Star 96.7 Joliet, Illinois) on July 29th, 2022, reviewing the film “Resurrection,” featuring Rebecca Hall and Tim Roth, currently in theaters.
Haunted Domicile! On-Air Review of ‘The Night House’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on August 19, 2021 - 3:56pmRating: 4.0/5.0 |
CHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on August 19th, 2021, reviewing the new film “The Night House” – featuring Rebecca Hall – in theaters on August 20th, 2021.
Titans Clash! On-Air Review of ‘Godzilla vs Kong’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on April 2, 2021 - 7:03pmRating: 4.5/5.0 |
CHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on April 1st, 2021, reviewing the new film “Godzilla vs. Kong,” in theaters now and streaming on HBO Max.
Dull Origins in ‘Professor Marston & the Wonder Women’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on October 17, 2017 - 8:01pmRating: 3.0/5.0 |
CHICAGO – For a film that has free love, lie detection, bondage, the origin of a great comic superhero and 3-way carnality, “Professor Marston & the Wonder Women” still comes out rather flat… quite a achievement. Wonder Woman is the comic hero, and this is the rest of her story.
Life Reveals Itself Through Courses in ‘The Dinner’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on May 7, 2017 - 9:25pmRating: 4.5/5.0 |
CHICAGO – There is a peculiar and particular morality in the maneuverings of “The Dinner,” a multi-course meditation on how a tragic incident can split both opinion and family. Everything in the present situation has a below-the-surface past that festers like an unhealed wound, constantly causing pain.
Superb Allegorical Story Told in Essential ‘Christine’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on November 18, 2016 - 8:25pmRating: 5.0/5.0 |
CHICAGO – In one of the great American films of the year, character actor Rebecca Hall interprets a based-on-truth incident from the 1970s, as she portrays the title character of “Christine.” The film encapsulates the nature of mental health, gender issues and the pursuit of random numbers.
Joel Edgerton’s Directorial Debut ‘The Gift’ Shows Psychological Thriller Promise
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on August 10, 2015 - 10:45pmRating: 3.5/5.0 |
CHICAGO – Of the various genres of films, the psychological thriller is one of my holy grails. A story that highlights the psychology of its characters and their wobbly emotional states, few modern filmmakers dare to compete with the masterminds – Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch and more recently David Fincher and Darren Aronofsky – or fail when trying to.
Meditative ‘Transcendence’ Also Artificially Intelligent
Submitted by NickHC on April 17, 2014 - 7:53pmRating: 3.0/5.0 |
CHICAGO – The Internet is for real in “Transcendence”, a B-movie with grade-A production quality, loaded with terabyte-size open-ended questions, so long as one can accept it lastly with a scientific mindset. It is a film that perceives technology to be more expansive than a box of wires and computer chips, and actualizes the expanse of the internet as limitless to the realm of spiritual.
‘Closed Circuit’ is a Tense Reminder of Our Times
Submitted by PatrickMcD on August 28, 2013 - 7:55amRating: 4.0/5.0 |
CHICAGO – The threat of terrorist acts defies security. That is a fundamental truth. With 7 billion people on the planet – and an infinite number of motivations within them – all the security cameras, techniques and agencies cannot stop a determined group or individual, as depicted in “Closed Circuit.”
‘Iron Man 3’ Starts Summer with a Mechanized Bang
Submitted by BrianTT on May 2, 2013 - 9:39amRating: 4.0/5.0 |
CHICAGO – Critics and viewers fell in rapturous adoration of the legend of The Dark Knight when Christopher Nolan and his team took the risk of making character-driven superhero movies. To kick off the second phase of the Marvel Universe of films with this weekend’s “Iron Man 3,” Shane Black and the team behind this guaranteed blockbuster have done the same – presenting us with the most human Marvel flick since “Spider-Man 2.”