CHICAGO – The late playwright August Wilson left a gift to the world in the form of his “American Century Cycle,” a series of plays each individually set in a decade of the 20th Century, focusing on the black experience. Chicago’s Goodman Theatre presents Wilson’s “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” now through May 19th, 2024 (click here).
On-Air Film Review: Storm Warning in ‘Munich – The Edge of War’
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CHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Dan Baker on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on January 20th, 2022, reviewing a fictional film set in a real historic event, “Munich – The Edge of War,” streaming on Netflix beginning on January 21st.
Rating: 4.0/5.0 |
A British student named Hugh Legat (George MacKay) and a German named Paul von Hartman (Jannis Newöhner) meet at Oxford in 1932 and six years later, on the brink of war in 1938, both end up as diplomatic agents for their respective countries. They end up around the negotiations of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (Jeremy Irons) and Adolf Hitler (Ulrich Matthes). Paul is working in the underground resistance against Der Fuehrer, and wants to get Legat involved, making the fate of the world in both their destinies.
Munich – The Edge of War
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