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Ellen Page’s ‘Smart People’ Only as Scholarly as Zealous Senior in High School

Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on April 11, 2008 - 2:05am.

HollywoodChicago.com Oscarman rating: 2.5/5 CHICAGO – I’m flummoxed. I know “Smart People” was supposed to be comedic drama with a splash of romance. Instead, I have been misled. It’s not a comedy. It’s not a tragedy. It’s not even a tragicomedy.

Tobey Maguire ‘Black’ in Action in Venomously Conflicted ‘Spider-Man 3’

Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on May 3, 2007 - 4:08am.

Rating: 3.5/5 CHICAGO – At the heart of every great film is a good conflict. In Spidey’s third advent, his heart is venomously conflicted and so is the film.

The film gets gargantuan props on its special effects. Of course, the entertaining visual acuity is expected and is no surprise.

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‘Superior Donuts’ From Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Tracy Letts a Chicago Dish, Albeit a Stale One

CHICAGO – I wouldn’t have wanted to be Tracy Letts on Saturday afternoon. After winning both the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for his opus “August: Osage County,” he had to have been feeling the tremendous pressure being placed on his newest work and first comedy “Superior Donuts”.
Chicago’s ‘Relatively Close’ is Concrete Proof That Death is Easy, Comedy is Hard

CHICAGO – Forget the Year of the Rat. This is the year of the dysfunctional family reunion.

With Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “August: Osage County,” the Broadway remounting of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and the Tony-sweeping revival of “Gypsy,” 2008 has been saturated with some of the finest performances of relational drama that theatre has seen in years.

Thomas Haden Church

Ellen Page’s ‘Smart People’ Only as Scholarly as Zealous Senior in High School

Tobey Maguire ‘Black’ in Action in Venomously Conflicted ‘Spider-Man 3’

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