CHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Dan Baker on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on March 21st, 2024, reviewing the new streaming series “Manhunt” – based on the bestseller by James L. Swanson – currently streaming on Apple TV+.
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Slideshow: Chicago International Film Festival TV Awards Slated for April 22. 2015
Submitted by PatrickMcD on April 12, 2015 - 10:46amCHICAGO – The Chicago International Film Festival (CIFF) kicks off its 51st year by presenting their annual Television Awards on April 22, 2015. The Awards honors innovative and outstanding members of the television community, in production and advertising. The honorees include Whitehouse Post production house, TV newscaster Jay Levine (Investigative Journalism) and ‘Chicago Legend in Advertising’ Tom Burrell.
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 100 Pairs of Advance TV Premiere Passes to NBC’s ‘American Odyssey’
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on March 23, 2015 - 10:19pmCHICAGO – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: TV, we have 100 pairs of advance TV premiere tickets up for grabs to the new NBC drama “American Odyssey” starring Anna Friel and Peter Facinelli! This will be a special event honoring women in the military for their services.
TV Review: Grisly Sacrifice for Science in Captivating Period Drama ‘The Knick’
Submitted by NickHC on August 8, 2014 - 8:16amCHICAGO – Cinemax’s ominous new series “The Knick” is a hospital drama that’s very much in the voice of its director, Steven Soderbergh. Set in New York City at the turn of the 20th century, the series presents the medical world as it inches closer and closer to modernity, while making contemporary parallels to the desperate hustle by surgery room clients and their doctors alike regarding treatment of the human body. What has changed in the politics of medicine? What hasn’t?
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 60 Pairs of Advance TV Passes to NBC’s ‘Crisis’ with Gillian Anderson
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on March 10, 2014 - 9:10pmCHICAGO – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: TV with our unique social giveaway technology, we have 60 pairs of advance-screening TV passes up for grabs to NBC’s new TV thriller “Crisis” starring Gillian Anderson (“The X-Files”)!
TV Review: Premiere of ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’ Lacks Originality
Submitted by DaveHC on March 10, 2014 - 4:03pmCHICAGO – It’s been a year of updatings that has seen venerable characters like Norman Bates and Hannibal Lecter solidly re-envisioned by the small screen. So how fare the Gecko Brothers? Not all that great sadly. This overly slick redux of the fantastic film “From Dusk Till Dawn” (1997) not only suffers from pretty people syndrome but borrows so heavily from the original film that it feels less like homage and reboot than redress and reshoot.
TV Review: Season Two Proves That ‘Bates Motel’ is Still the Place to Check In
Submitted by DaveHC on March 3, 2014 - 4:25pmCHICAGO – The theme of Season Two is ‘unraveling’. Lies unravel, best laid plans unravel, loyalties unravel and most of all Norma and Norman Bates unravel in increasingly spectacular fashion. This pulpy re-imagining of the Bates family history is easily one of the best things on TV and the premiere episode of Season two isn’t afraid to take advantage of how attached audiences have become to the Twitchy pair and their assorted and very troubled friends and neighbors.
TV Review: Second Season of ‘Hannibal’ Crosses the Next Plateau
Submitted by DaveHC on February 26, 2014 - 11:20amCHICAGO – After becoming one of last season’s don’t miss shows “Hannibal” has it’s work cut out for it on several fronts. Forget the fact that the bar is set so high for the writing and the acting and visual aesthetics. Underneath all that is another far more daunting task. Show Runner Bryan Fuller has already let leak that Season Four is when the events depicted in the novels and previous film adaptations will start to enter the mix – culminating in a season that imagines events taking place after the film “Hannibal” (2001).
Slideshow: Women in Film Chicago 2014 Kick-Off Party
Submitted by PatrickMcD on January 26, 2014 - 6:29amCHICAGO – For over 30 years, Women in Film has been building a global community of film, television, advertising, digital and on-screen media professionals. The Chicago chapter is a vibrant part of that community, and on January 23rd Women in Film Chicago began the new year with their 2014 Kick-Off Party.
TV Review: FX Finds Partner For Brilliant ‘Archer’ in Promising ‘Chozen’
Submitted by BrianTT on January 13, 2014 - 10:27amFX has built a loyal following for the twisted genius of their animated hit “Archer,” which returns tonight, January 13, 2014 to start an incredibly strong series of episodes that spoof “Miami Vice” under the banner of “Archer Vice.” While “Archer” seems to garner more fans every year (helped ably by the popularity of the episodes on Netflix), FX has struggled to find it a partner. Maybe an obnoxious, fat, gay white rapper is just what Sterling Archer needed.
TV Review: Television Has Evolved Beyond NBC’s ‘Chicago PD’
Submitted by BrianTT on January 8, 2014 - 12:00pmThere’s a fine line between old-fashioned and stale. Some will look at “Chicago PD,” NBC’s spin-off of “Chicago Fire” from mega-producer Dick Wolf, and say that it’s the kind of tried-and-true cop show that they don’t really make that often any more. I would say there’s a reason they don’t make them any more.