CHICAGO – When two brothers confront the sins of each other and it expands into a psychology of an entire race, it’s at a stage play found in Chicago’s Invictus Theatre Company production of “Topdog/Underdog,” now at their new home at the Windy City Playhouse through March 31st, 2024. Click TD/UD for tickets/info.
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Film Review: Betrayal! On-Air Review of ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on February 12, 2021 - 7:41pmCHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on February 11th, 2021, reviewing the new film “Judas and the Black Messiah,” in theaters and streaming on HBO Max beginning February 12th, 2021.!—break—>
Film Review: Two Stories Clash in Uneven ‘Rules Don’t Apply’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on November 24, 2016 - 9:39amCHICAGO – Movie icon Warren Beatty had wanted to make a film about 20th Century billionaire Howard Hughes for close to 40 years. On the heels of Martin Scorsese’s “The Aviator,” Beatty has written, directed and portrays Hughes in “Rules Don’t Apply,” and has created a strange farce about the mogul and a romance tale around him.
Interview: Lily Collins & Alden Ehrenreich of ‘Rules Don’t Apply’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on November 22, 2016 - 11:01amCHICAGO – If there is one star-crossed couple in this fall’s movie line-up, it’s Marla and Frank of “Rules Don’t Apply,” as portrayed by Lily Collins and Alden Ehrenreich. The two popular young actors are trying to connect by the standards of late 1950s Hollywood in the film, a looser atmosphere but still difficult for two religious outsiders.
Interview: Film Icon Warren Beatty Knows ‘Rules Don’t Apply’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on November 21, 2016 - 12:06pm- 1950s
- 20th Century Fox
- Alden Ehrenreich
- Alec Baldwin
- Annette Bening
- Candice Bergen
- Ed Harris
- Heaven Can Wait
- Hollywood
- HollywoodChicago.com Content
- Howard Hughes
- Interview
- Lily Collins
- Martin Sheen
- Matthew Broderick
- Oliver Platt
- Patrick McDonald
- Reds
- Rules Don’t Apply
- Splendor in the Grass
- Warren Beatty
CHICAGO – When encountering film producer, director, writer and “movie star” Warren Beatty, I entered into an interview that would be truly one of a kind. The spontaneous Mr. Beatty works a talk in a give-and-take Socratic method, searching for the truth underneath the rhetoric, as he did with his new film “Rules Don’t Apply.”
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 40 Pairs of Passes to ‘Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping’ With Andy Samberg
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on May 30, 2016 - 1:50pm- Adam Fendelman
- Adam Levine
- Akiva Schaffer
- Andy Samberg
- Bill Hader
- HollywoodChicago.com Content
- HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film
- Imogen Poots
- Jimmy Fallon
- Joan Cusack
- Jorma Taccone
- Judd Apatow
- Martin Sheen
- Maya Rudolph
- Pink
- Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
- Sarah Silverman
- The Lonely Island
- Tim Meadows
- Universal Pictures
- Will Arnett
- Will Forte
CHICAGO – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 40 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the new music comedy “Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping” starring Andy Samberg from The Lonely Island and producer Judd Apatow!
Interview: Writer, Director Allison Burnett on ‘Ask Me Anything’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on March 4, 2015 - 4:14pmCHICAGO – The number of writers who have adapted and directed their own novels as films is a very small and elite club, and it includes writer/director Allison Burnett. His 2014 film, “Ask Me Anything,” is being released on DVD on March 3rd, 2015, and features Britt Robertson, Justin Long, Christian Slater and Martin Sheen.
Interview: Actor David Oyelowo, Director Ava DuVernay of ‘Selma’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on January 8, 2015 - 7:45amCHICAGO – One of the most vital – and contemporarily relevant – historical films is about to be released. “Selma” is the story of the titanic struggle to establish voting rights in Alabama in 1965, led by the iconic civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Actor David Oyelowo portrays King, and was directed by Ava DuVernay.
Film Review: ‘Selma’ a Powerful Reminder that History Does Repeat
Submitted by PatrickMcD on January 1, 2015 - 9:59amCHICAGO – With exquisite timing, the historical docudrama “Selma” will ring in 2015, and adds to the race-oppression-in-America debate that everything old is new again. Set in 1965, it is the courageous story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the ordinary citizens that fought for the right to vote.
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 50 Pairs of Passes to ‘Selma’ on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on December 31, 2014 - 5:46pm- Adam Fendelman
- Alessandro Nivola
- Ava DuVernay
- Carmen Ejogo
- Common
- Cuba Gooding Jr.
- David Oyelowo
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- Dylan Baker
- Giovanni Ribisi
- HollywoodChicago.com Content
- HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film
- Martin Sheen
- Oprah Winfrey
- Paramount Pictures
- Paul Webb
- Selma
- Tessa Thompson
- Tim Roth
CHICAGO – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the Golden Globe-nominated film “Selma” on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. starring David Oyelowo!
Film Review: Author Remains Elusive in Documentary ‘Salinger’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on September 20, 2013 - 10:18amCHICAGO – Jerome David Salinger, J.D. to his readers, remains one of the most influential and controversial authors of the 20th Century. Known intuitively for the classic novel “Catcher in the Rye,” he also was known as a reclusive soul. His life and times make up the new documentary, “Salinger.”