CHICAGO – In anticipation of the scariest week of the year, HollywoodChicago.com launches its 2024 Movie Gifts series, which will suggest DVDs and collections for holiday giving.
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Entertainment News: It’s Spooky Season with Author David K. Wilson’s ‘The Girl in the Whispers’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on October 1, 2024 - 8:20amCHICAGO – It’s the first day of October and that means the “spooky season” leading up to Halloween has begun. Popular mystery author David K. Wilson (Sam Lawson Mysteries) has moved outside his usual genre with “The Girl in the Whispers,” a psychological thriller that has its share of hauntings. The book releases today and is available by CLICKING HERE.
Podtalk: Author David K. Wilson of ‘Murder in Spa City’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on September 5, 2024 - 7:36amCHICAGO – Author David K. Wilson had a plan during the pandemic, and it evolved to a now seventh book in his Sam Lawson mystery series, entitled “Murder in Spa City.” David spent time in his early career in Chicago, and the series followed a creative career in other writing. To order the book and series, click SAM LAWSON.
On-Air Film Review: No Static at All in Adaptation of ‘White Noise’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on December 3, 2022 - 8:17amCHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Jason Makos on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on December 1st, 2022, reviewing “Emancipation,” featuring Will Smith and set in the Civil War period and within the eradication of slavery, in theaters on December 2nd.
Audio Film Review: An Appetite for Love in ‘Bones and All’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on November 24, 2022 - 7:39pmCHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio film review for “Bones and All,” a delicious Bonnie & Clyde twist based on a 2015 novel by Camille DeAngelis, in theaters on November 23rd.
Film Review: Stylish ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ is a Bit Too Soap Opera
Submitted by PatrickMcD on August 16, 2018 - 6:25amCHICAGO – “Crazy Rich Asians” is not meant to be anything but glitzy fun, but in the midst of the glamour, excessive wealth and beautiful people, there is a plot that ventures into Soap Opera land, and eventually becomes a distraction for the reason an audience goes to this show… to fantasize about living large.
Red-Carpet Voices: Gillian Flynn for HBO’s ‘Sharp Objects’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on August 5, 2018 - 7:55pmCHICAGO – She is the author whose novels are screen friendly. Gillian Flynn has had all three of her books adapted for either television or film, and the latest is a miniseries adaptation of her first novel, which continues on HBO, titled “Sharp Objects.” The series runs eight episodes, and features Amy Adams in the lead role, supported by Patricia Clarkson, Chris Messina and Elizabeth Perkins.
Red-Carpet Voices: Chris Messina for HBO’s ‘Sharp Objects’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on July 29, 2018 - 6:51pmCHICAGO – You’ve seen him in many familiar roles over the years, from “Argo” to “The Mindy Project.” Character actor Chris Messina is memorable in all those roles, and currently is taking on Detective Richard Willis in the hot new HBO miniseries “Sharp Objects,” opposite Amy Adams and Patricia Clarkson.
Red-Carpet Voices: Patricia Clarkson for HBO’s ‘Sharp Objects’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on July 21, 2018 - 3:35pmCHICAGO – The HBO miniseries “Sharp Objects,” based on the novel by Gillian Flynn (“Gone Girl”), will broadcast its third episode on Sunday, July 22nd, 2018. It features Amy Adams in the lead role as Camille Preaker, and also features the incomparable and shining movie star Patricia Clarkson, as Camille’s disparaging mother Adora.
Film Review: ‘Maze Runner: The Death Cure’ Has Run Out of Life
Submitted by PatrickMcD on January 26, 2018 - 11:35amCHICAGO – The third part of the “Maze Runner” trilogy is called “The Death Cure,” and that cure best describes the faint pulse of this run-out-of-steam dystopia aimed at “young adults.” It is mostly warring and not much more, except for a stab (literally) at misplaced emotion.
Film Review: Good vs. Evil Brightly Entertaining in ‘The Dark Tower’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on August 4, 2017 - 12:10amCHICAGO – Nobody does good vs. evil archetypes like author Stephen King, and this framework is purposeful in the film adaptation of King’s “The Dark Tower.” The popular book series gets a visual kick through the rendering of director Nikolaj Arcel and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment.