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.
Ethan Hawke
Red-Carpet Interview: Gene Siskel Film Center Honors Ethan Hawke
Submitted by PatrickMcD on June 19, 2018 - 12:13pm- Actor
- Before Sunrise
- Blaze
- Boyhood
- Chicago
- Dead Poet’s Society
- Director
- Ethan Hawke
- First Reformed
- Full Metal Jacket
- Gene Siskel Film Center
- Ghost Wars
- HollywoodChicago.com Content
- Interview
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent
- Men in Black
- Patrick McDonald
- Podcast
- Podtalk
- Red Carpet
- Renaissance Award
- Richard Linklater
- School of the Art Institute
- Training Day
- Vincent D’Onofrio
CHICAGO – Ethan Hawke has made 2018 his year, and on June 7th the Gene Siskel Film Center of Chicago recognized his recent artistic achievements and his career by honoring him with their annual Renaissance Award. The event included a Red Carpet walk, and an on-stage talk with his friend, actor Vincent D’Onofrio.
Podtalk: Writer/Director Paul Schrader Blesses ‘First Reformed’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on May 21, 2018 - 4:17pmCHICAGO – Paul Schrader can absolutely claim the title of Cinema Icon with his 40 plus years of influence and involvement as writer or director in memorable films such as “Taxi Driver,” “American Gigolo,” “Raging Bull” and “Auto Focus.” His latest written-and-directed-by film is “First Reformed,” featuring Ethan Hawke.
Film News: Chicago’s DOC 10 Closing Night with Elvis in ‘THE KING’ on April 8, 2018
Submitted by PatrickMcD on April 8, 2018 - 11:59amCHICAGO – Elvis is everywhere and the new documentary “THE KING” proves it. There can’t be a better Closing Night film at Chicago’s DOC 10 Film Festival – April 8th, 2018, at the Davis Theater in the Lincoln Square neighborhood – then this amazing document of Elvis and the American Dream, which was directed by Eugene Jarecki (“Why We Fight”). It’s a must see. For more information, ticket info, click here.
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 60 Pairs of Passes to ‘Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets’
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on July 17, 2017 - 10:20amCHICAGO – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 60 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the new film “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets”!
Entertainment Feature: Top 20 Celebrity Portraits of 2016, By Photographer Joe Arce
Submitted by PatrickMcD on January 13, 2017 - 12:16pm- Alice Cooper
- Anna Kendrick
- Carrie Fisher
- David Duchovny
- Entertainment News
- Ethan Hawke
- HollywoodChicago.com Content
- Hugh Jackman
- Illeana Douglas
- Joe Arce
- John Legend
- Kevin Bacon
- Laura Bush
- List
- Michael J. Fox
- Patrick McDonald
- Peter Bogdanovich
- Photography
- Photos
- Pictures
- Portraits
- Scarlett Johansson
- Woody Allen
CHICAGO – The year 2016 was a dangerous one to be a famous person. In the past twelve months, one dozen of my former photo subjects passed away, celebrities who at one time or another famously posed for my lens. However, on a positive note, at least photos are forever. Or to quote the immortal words of Pee Wee Herman – “Why don’t you take a picture, it will last longer!”
Film Review: ‘The Magnificent Seven’ is How the Western Was Lost
Submitted by PatrickMcD on September 23, 2016 - 6:20pmCHICAGO – The appeal of Westerns was mostly lost on me when I was younger. The tales of these hypermasculine wanderers, answering every problem with a gun, never appealed to me. When I got older, I discovered their messages of honor and self-defense against corruption. The genre proved it could be more than one-liners and shootouts, but “The Magnificent Seven” set out to be only that.
Slideshow: Ethan Hawke, A-List Authors Highlight 2016 Chicago Printers Row Lit Fest
Submitted by PatrickMcD on July 22, 2016 - 1:12pmCHICAGO – Actor Ethan Hawke continues his plethora of vocations with the “hawkeing” of “Indeh,” his new graphic novel (co-authored with Greg Ruth) at the 2016 Printers Row Lit Fest in June. He was the celebrity spotlight, but the festival also featured the heavy hitters of the literary world, including notables Terry McMillan (“How Stella Got Her Groove Back”) and R.L.“Goosebumps” Stine.
Interview: Director Rebecca Miller Executes ‘Maggie’s Plan’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on May 26, 2016 - 9:07amCHICAGO – Quirky Greta Gerwig is at it again (being quirky), and this time she’s looking for solutions in “Maggie’s Plan.” The made-in-New-York-City film has overtures of Woody Allen, combined with “Crossing Delancey.” Director Rebecca Miller (“Personal Velocity”) produces a valentine to all her influences and settings.
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 50 Pairs of Passes to ‘Seymour: An Introduction’ From Ethan Hawke
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on March 13, 2015 - 5:23pmCHICAGO – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the new music film “Seymour: An Introduction” from writer and director Ethan Hawke on beloved piano teacher Seymour Bernstein!
Film Review: Limiting Twists in Time Travel Drama ‘Predestination’
Submitted by NickHC on January 9, 2015 - 2:53pmCHICAGO – “Predestination” is a time travel game of limited pieces, in which two beings are not who they seem. Twists abound in a story that gets credit for jarring narrative directions, but this adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein’s “All You Zombies” remains limited in its potential, especially as it fails to evolve past its spiritual predecessors “Source Code” and “Looper.”