CHICAGO – The late playwright August Wilson left a gift to the world in the form of his “American Century Cycle,” a series of plays each individually set in a decade of the 20th Century, focusing on the black experience. Chicago’s Goodman Theatre presents Wilson’s “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” now through May 19th, 2024 (click here).
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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 50 Pairs of Passes to ‘Insidious: The Last Key’
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on January 2, 2018 - 11:32amCHICAGO – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the new horror film “Insidious: The Last Key” from the creative minds behind the hit “Insidious” trilogy!
Film Review: Internet Generation is Terrorized in Clichéd ‘Smiley’
Submitted by BrianTT on October 11, 2012 - 1:35pm Rating: 2.5/5.0 |
CHICAGO – What if all the evil on the internet manifested itself into a supernatural being with the power to kill a la Candyman? Such is the relatively clever premise of “Smiley,” opening in limited release this week. It’s a modest, low-budget horror movie with some effective ideas and an engaging lead performance but it clutters itself down with too much dialogue about its title character and the very concept of evil being potentially brought to physical life. Every time that it feels like “Smiley” could become something interesting, it falls back into clichés. It’s a film about the next generation of horror villains that owes too much to the older ones.
