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.
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Film Review: Tensionless ‘Water For Elephants’ Fatally Mismatches Leads, Casts Spot-On Supporters
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on April 23, 2011 - 1:47amCHICAGO – While Robert “Twilight” Pattinson has persuasively branched out beyond his typecasting of reanimated and preternatural corpses, his miscast union in the tensionless “Water for Elephants” with pin-up circus spectacle Reese Witherspoon works as well as an elephant trying to spoon a sworn-enemy lion.
TV Review: ‘Louie’ Starts Slowly, But Improves in Future Episodes
Submitted by BrianTT on June 29, 2010 - 9:53amCHICAGO – Comedian Louis C.K. is an undeniably talented and very funny man but can he carry his own show?
Blu-Ray Review: ‘The Eclipse’ Chills the Blood, Touches the Soul
Submitted by mattmovieman on June 29, 2010 - 7:58amCHICAGO – I often find that the most interesting characters in a ghost story are not the ghosts themselves, but the humans who encounter them. Ghosts are reflections of a past we are unwilling to depart from, even if it halts us from entering the future. It’s a consolation for us to believe that our departed loved ones view us as their “unfinished business.”
‘The Eclipse’ Blends Human Drama With Spooky Horror
Submitted by BrianTT on April 15, 2010 - 7:18pm Rating: 4.0/5.0 |
CHICAGO – I often find that the most interesting characters in a ghost story are not the ghosts themselves, but the humans who encounter them. Ghosts are reflections of a past we are unwilling to depart from, even if it halts us from entering the future. It’s a consolation for us to believe that our departed loved ones view us as their “unfinished business.”
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 50 Chicago Passes to ‘The Eclipse’ With Ciarán Hinds
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on March 28, 2010 - 9:46pmCHICAGO – In our latest supernatural thriller edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 admit-two passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of “The Eclipse” starring Ciarán Hinds!
