CHICAGO – Excelsior! Comic book legend Stan Lee’s famous exclamation puts a fine point on the third and final play of Mark Pracht’s FOUR COLOR TRILOGY, “The House of Ideas,” presented by and staged at City Lit Theater in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood. For tickets/details, click HOUSE OF IDEAS.
Academy Awards
Film Feature: HollywoodChicago.com Predicts the 2013 Academy Award Winners
Submitted by BrianTT on February 21, 2013 - 3:14pmCHICAGO – Hollywood’s favorite night of self-congratulations commences this Sunday, finally putting an end to the awards season and allowing us to get on with the new year in film. One last look back at 2012. Will it be “Argo” or “Lincoln”? Spielberg or the field? What the heck wins Best Original Screenplay?
Interview: Director Dror Moreh of Oscar Nominee ‘The Gatekeepers’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on February 18, 2013 - 11:26amCHICAGO – One of the five documentaries nominated for an Oscar this Sunday is the incendiary story of “The Gatekeepers.” The film goes inside “Shin Bet,” the Israeli secret anti-terrorist agency. By interviewing ex-agency leaders, director Droh Moreh was able to gain insights into the moral failings of their activities.
DVD Review: ‘Best of Warner Bros. 20 Film Collection: Musicals’
Submitted by BrianTT on February 13, 2013 - 1:29pmCHICAGO – Warner Brothers is using their 100th anniversary to release a series of special Blu-ray and DVD box sets that would make great gifts for the movie lover in your life. To be fair, a number of films in the latest box, “Best of Warner Bros. 20 Film Collection: Musicals” are available in stellar Blu-ray editions and that should be the way to go if you can but for the standard-only movie fan in your life or someone who doesn’t own any of these 20 (mostly) classics, it’s a stellar starter set for musical history.
DVD Review: ‘Best of Warner Bros. 20 Film Collection: Best Pictures’
Submitted by BrianTT on February 2, 2013 - 9:15pmCHICAGO – From “The Broadway Melody” to “The Departed,” Warner Bros. has collected twenty of their most beloved films in one DVD box set called “Best of Warner Bros. 20 Film Collection: Best Pictures.” Yes, all 20 films in this set on 23 discs won the Oscar for Best Picture. What better way to lead up to the upcoming 2013 Academy Awards than to burn through 20 of the past winners?
Film Feature: Ranking the ‘2013 Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts’
Submitted by BrianTT on February 1, 2013 - 4:14pmCHICAGO – Want a leg-up in your Oscar pool? The five short films nominated for the Academy Award for “Best Animated Short” are now playing at the Landmark Century Theatre in a special presentation with three other shorts (the non-nominated “Abiogenesis,” “Dripped,” and “The Gruffalo’s Child”). The program runs 88 minutes and we have mini-reviews of all five below, ranked in the order we’d like to see them win the Oscar.
Film Feature: Ranking the ‘2013 Oscar-Nominated Live-Action Shorts’
Submitted by BrianTT on February 1, 2013 - 3:49pmCHICAGO – Want a leg-up in your Oscar pool? The five short films nominated for the Academy Award for “Best Live-Action Short” are now playing at the Landmark Century Theatre in a special presentation. The program runs 114 minutes and we have mini-reviews of all five below, ranked in the order we’d like to see them win the Oscar.
Film Review: Michael Haneke’s ‘Amour’ Turns Inevitability of Death Into Art
Submitted by BrianTT on January 11, 2013 - 1:27pmRating: 4.5/5.0 |
CHICAGO – One of the most shocking developments at yesterday’s Oscar nominations was the widespread inclusion of one of international cinema’s most controversial directors, Michael Haneke (“Caché,” “The White Ribbon”). His newest film, “Amour,” opening in Chicago theaters today, was nominated for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actress, Best Foreign Language Film, and Best Picture of the Year.
Film News: ‘Lincoln,’ ‘Life of Pi’ Lead 2013 Oscar Nominations
Submitted by BrianTT on January 10, 2013 - 8:58amCHICAGO – The 2013 Oscar nominations were announced on Thursday morning and “Lincoln” led the way as the most-nominated film of the year with 12 nominations. Come back later today for a list of this year’s biggest snubs and stick with HollywoodChicago.com for all of your Oscar features and news leading up to the big day on Feb. 24, 2013!
Film Feature: Predictions For the 2013 Oscar Nominations
Submitted by BrianTT on January 9, 2013 - 10:58amCHICAGO – If everything goes as expected, fans of “Lincoln,” “Les Misérables,” and “Zero Dark Thirty” will be very happy on Thursday morning, as those three films will certainly be among the most nominated for this year’s Academy Awards. After that, the certainty ends.
Film News: Academy Announces Short List for Best Documentary Contenders
Submitted by mattmovieman on December 5, 2012 - 11:30amCHICAGO – The short list for Academy Award contenders in the Best Documentary category have been announced. 15 potential nominees were selected with the utilization of new rules spearheaded by Academy Governor Michael Moore. Each entry was required to have screened for at least one week in Los Angeles and New York, and had to be reviewed by at least one newspaper.