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Blu-ray Review: Boring ‘Joyful Noise’ Offers Great Music, Dull Melodrama
Submitted by BrianTT on May 8, 2012 - 1:39pm.CHICAGO – “Joyful Noise” is a weird movie in that it absolutely comes alive in its full musical numbers, of which there are several, but the plot that connects those gospel and pop songs is so thin that it’s impossible to care about the characters or what’s happening to them. The people in “Joyful Noise” are all likable and the story is harmless but the movie is slowly paced and oddly inert, showing none of the life that real gospel music brings to the people. It’s not full of enough joy or noise.
Interview: Jeremy Jordan Makes ‘Joyful Noise’ in Film Debut
Submitted by PatrickMcD on January 17, 2012 - 12:43pm.CHICAGO – It is a story as old as show business itself. Plucky understudy replaces a Broadway musical lead on the same night a movie director decides to take in the play, which results in the understudy getting his first movie role. It happened exactly like that to stage – and now screen – performer Jeremy Jordan, who made his debut over the weekend in the film “Joyful Noise.”
Film Review: Gospel According to Dolly Parton, Queen Latifah in ‘Joyful Noise’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on January 16, 2012 - 11:43am.CHICAGO – The old fashioned musical has gotten a boost from the recent popularity of “Glee” and other singing shows. It was inevitably that the marriage of the gospel choir and the movie musical would take place, and writer/director Todd Graff (”Camp”) is the matchmaker in “Joyful Noise.”
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 50 Pairs of Passes to ‘Joyful Noise’ With Queen Latifah, Dolly Parton
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on January 9, 2012 - 6:28pm.CHICAGO – In our latest music edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 admit-two movie passes up for grabs to the new film “Joyful Noise” starring Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah!
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 2 VIP TV Prize Packs For ‘Law & Order: Criminal Intent’ on USA Network
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on April 21, 2011 - 10:19pm.CHICAGO – In this edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: TV, we have two VIP TV prize packs up for grabs to USA Network’s “Law & Order: Criminal Intent”!
DVD Review: Catch Up With ‘FlashForward’ at Halfway Point
Submitted by BrianTT on March 3, 2010 - 4:38pm.CHICAGO – Watching commercial-free episodes back-to-back on DVD illuminates a show’s strengths and weaknesses (while also making drinking games easier to spot from a show’s repetitive moments). “Lost” and “24” were helped amply by their season sets, as their breakneck pace worked even better without a need to push fast forward on a DVR remote.
Interview: Harrison Ford Goes to ‘Extraordinary Measures’ With Loner Scientist Role
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on January 25, 2010 - 1:33am.CHICAGO – A very subdued and scientific Harrison Ford recently spoke with HollywoodChicago.com and two other Chicago film critics on the subject of his new true-story film “Extraordinary Measures”. Ford stars in the film and served as its executive producer since inception.
TV News: ABC’s ‘FlashForward’ Will Move Forward For Full Season
Submitted by BrianTT on October 13, 2009 - 8:16pm.CHICAGO – It comes to no surprise to hear that freshman series “FlashForward” got picked up for a full season by ABC, according to popular blogger Michael Ausiello.
TV Review: ABC’s ‘FlashForward’ Could Easily Be the Next ‘Lost’
Submitted by BrianTT on September 24, 2009 - 9:27am.CHICAGO – Do you think that if the creators of “Lost” were allowed a glimpse at their futures when their hit show began that they would have seen a montage of all the series that it would inspire?
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