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: Nostalgia Not Enough to Save ‘Baywatch’ From Drowning
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CHICAGO – Going to the beach is simultaneously an exciting and disgusting experience. Swimming in the cool water that thousands have gone inside in the past, with more than a few leaving bodily fluid deposits, is the perfect way to describe “Baywatch”. No amount of beefy biceps or shirt-busting breasts could have given “Baywatch” the buoyancy needed to keep from sinking, let alone stay afloat.
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 40 Pairs of Passes to ‘Baywatch’ With Dwayne Johnson, Zac Efron
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on May 17, 2017 - 9:26amCHICAGO – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 40 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the new film “Baywatch” starring Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron!
Film Review: ‘San Andreas’ Loads Its Story with Too Many Faults
Submitted by PatrickMcD on May 30, 2015 - 1:53pmCHICAGO – The best way, perhaps the only way, to enjoy the disaster movie “San Andreas” is to check your brain at the door, or better yet leave it at home for safekeeping. Bringing new meaning to the term mindless entertainment, “San Andreas” dares its audience to turn off their minds, and enjoy the ride.
Film Review: Terribly Scripted ‘San Andreas’ With Dwayne Johnson a Heartless Special Effects Spectacle
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on May 29, 2015 - 3:26pmCHICAGO – When the story is as weak as the film’s fault lines and the character development never develops, the problem with blowing $100 million mostly on special effects is all you’re left with is unintelligent disaster porn.
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 60 Pairs of Passes to ‘San Andreas’ With Dwayne Johnson
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on May 23, 2015 - 6:24pmCHICAGO – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 60 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the new action film “San Andreas” starring Dwayne Johnson and Paul Giamatti!
Film Review: ‘Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters’ is Driven by Myth
Submitted by PatrickMcD on August 7, 2013 - 9:11amCHICAGO – Although on the surface, the Percy Jackson stories may seem like Harry Potter rip-offs, the use of a mythology theme and a slyer sense of humor does give them some distinction and life. It also provides several moments of unintentional laughs in “Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters.”
Blu-ray Review: ‘Texas Chainsaw’ Continues to Diminish Legacy of Original
Submitted by BrianTT on May 20, 2013 - 3:51pmCHICAGO – Why do they keep making these awful movies? I’m a horror fan. I think Tobe Hooper’s original “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” is a truly effective (if a bit overrated) movie that has to be included on a list of the most influential of its era. But nearly everything that it has literally spawned has been awful. Sure, “TCM 2” has some wackadoo charm but the modern remakes — the two Platinum Dunes flicks and now this 3D stinker, reecently released on Blu-ray and DVD, are just a waste of time. To be fair, this reboot/sequel isn’t nearly as annoying as the last two but it’s still awful.
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 5 Pairs of Anytime Passes to ‘Texas Chainsaw 3D’ Plus 5 Horror DVD Sets
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on December 29, 2012 - 6:52pmCHICAGO – In this horror-themed HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 5 pairs of run-of-engagement, guaranteed, anytime movie passes up for grabs for the all-new “Texas Chainsaw 3D” plus 5 horror film DVD sets!
Blu-Ray Review: Silly ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief’
Submitted by BrianTT on July 7, 2010 - 5:05pmCHICAGO – The most notable thing about “Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief,” now available on Blu-ray and DVD, is that it probably still holds position as the most horribly-titled film of the year. As for the actual movie, it follows in the footsteps of years of films trying to become the next “Harry Potter” franchise and, comparably, makes out much better than disasters like “Eragon” or “The Seeker: The Dark is Rising,” but that’s faint praise indeed.
‘Percy Jackson & the Olympians:The Lightning Thief’ Conjures Up a Big Bolt of Bland
Submitted by PatrickMcD on February 12, 2010 - 10:06amCHICAGO – Oh, those nutty kids today. At one moment they’re regular high schoolers, doing all those post millennium teen rituals, then suddenly they’re demigods in “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.”