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+.
Story
Film Feature: AMC Theatres Hosts 2010 Best-Picture Screenings
Submitted by PatrickMcD on February 27, 2011 - 12:30pmCHICAGO – Film buffs broke out the coffee and energy drinks the morning before the 83rd Academy Awards as AMC Theatre River East Chicago hosted the 2010 Best Picture nominee screenings, part of a nationwide AMC Theatre promotion.
James MacArthur, Danno on Original ‘Hawaii Five-0,’ is Dead at 72
Submitted by PatrickMcD on October 29, 2010 - 7:22amCHICAGO – James MacArthur, a stage and screen actor best known for playing the booking agent Danno in the 1960s version of the TV show “Hawaii Five-0,” died on October 28th, 2010, of natural causes. He was 72. HollywoodChicago.com interviewed MacArthur last March at the Hollywood Celebrities and Memorabilia Show.
In Memoriam: Legendary ‘The A-Team’ Creator, TV Show Writer Stephen J. Cannell
Submitted by PatrickMcD on October 5, 2010 - 10:48amCHICAGO – In the 1980s, you couldn’t swing a burnt-out remote without coming upon either a Stephen J. Cannell created series or an episode that he’d personally written. The amazingly prolific and populist television icon – best known for “The Rockford Files” and “The A-Team” – passed away last week at the age of 69.
Movie News: 2010 Chicago International Film Festival Announces First 20 Films
Submitted by PatrickMcD on August 25, 2010 - 1:59pmCHICAGO – Cinema/Chicago is proud to announce the first 20 new films scheduled to appear at the 2010 Chicago International Film Festival, October 7th – 21st. The Chicago festival continues to combine the films of established directors/talent with promising newcomers. Expect some foreign and domestic film surprises.
Movie News: ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn’ Reveals Film Locations
Submitted by PatrickMcD on July 14, 2010 - 12:53pmCHICAGO – Summit Entertainment has announced the locations of filming for the continuing blockbuster series, “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn.” The gang will be in both Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Vancouver, Canada, over the next year starting this fall. This chapter will be release as two films, the first on November 18, 2011.
17th-Annual Chicago Underground Film Festival, Day Three: ‘American Jihadist’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on June 26, 2010 - 4:36amCHICAGO – What makes a person willing to kill and die for their religion? Day Three of the Chicago Underground Film Festival kicks off with a compelling documentary called “American Jihadist,” the story of Isa Abdullah Ali, a citizen of the USA who became an enemy of the state.
17th-Annual Chicago Underground Film Festival, Day Two: ‘Modus Operandi’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on June 25, 2010 - 7:12pmCHICAGO – Day Two of the Chicago Underground Film Festival saves one of its most underground features for the appropriately late 10:30pm time slot. “Modus Operandi” is an indescribable James Bondage spoof (pun intended) that puts the “Be-Be-Be” in the bonnet of an underground B-Movie blast.
Gary Coleman, Dead at 42, Led a Life of ‘Diff’rent Strokes’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on May 29, 2010 - 5:26pmCHICAGO – Television fans from the early 1980s lost a bit of their era yesterday as Gary Coleman, Arnold Jackson from the NBC sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes,” died of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 42. Coleman is the second of the three siblings on the show to pass away, as Dana Plato, who played his sister Kimberley, took her own life in 1999.
