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+.
1970s
Stayin’ Alive! On-Air Review of ‘The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on January 11, 2021 - 6:47pmRating: 5.0/5.0 |
CHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) in December of 2020, in a BONUS REVIEW of “The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart” now on HBO MAX.
1970s Music Weekend! On-Air Reviews of ‘I Am Woman’ & Jimmy Carter Rock Doc
Submitted by PatrickMcD on September 11, 2020 - 10:55pmRating: 3.5/5.0 |
CHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on September 10th, 2020, reviewing the new films “I Am Woman” (VOD and theaters) and “Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President” (virtual and actual theaters).
On-the-Air Reviews of ‘I Used to Go Here,’ Creem Mag Doc
Submitted by PatrickMcD on August 13, 2020 - 10:26am- 1970s
- Carbondale
- Community
- Creem: America’s Only Rock N Roll Magazine
- Flight of the Concords
- Gillian Jacobs
- HollywoodChicago.com Content
- I Used to Go Here
- Jeff Daniels
- Jermaine Clement
- Kris Rey
- Lester Bangs
- Michael Stipe
- Movie Review
- Patrick McDonald
- Scott Thompson
- The Morning Mess
- WBGR-FM. Monroe
- Wisconsin
Rating: 3.0/5.0 |
CHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on August 6th, 2020, reviewing the new films (virtual theaters online, actual theaters) “I Used to Go There” and “Creem: America’s Only Rock ’N’ Roll Magazine.”
On-The-Air Review of Gordon Lightfoot Documentary
Submitted by PatrickMcD on August 1, 2020 - 12:34pmRating: 4.0/5.0 |
CHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on July 30th, 2020, reviewing the new Video-On-Demand film “Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind.”
‘The Kitchen’ is Once Upon a Time in New York City
Submitted by PatrickMcD on August 8, 2019 - 11:31pmRating: 3.5/5.0 |
CHICAGO – It’s the ladies turn to harken back to the badass 1970s, more precisely 1977 in Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of New York City. In an adaptation of a DC Vertigo comic series, “The Kitchen” features Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish and Elisabeth Moss finding their destiny in taking over mobster duties.
1970s Caper Film in Enjoyable ‘Finding Steve McQueen’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on March 15, 2019 - 2:00pmRating: 3.5/5.0 |
CHICAGO – The “caper” film, AKA the heist film, is one of the old reliable genres in the movies, and usually involves a gang of mismatched thieves. “Finding Steve McQueen” goes all the way back to the 1970s to spotlight a based-on-truth burglary that involves Tricky Dick himself, President Richard M. Nixon.
‘Roma’ is a Celebration of Human Courage & Spirit
Submitted by PatrickMcD on December 6, 2018 - 12:42pmRating: 5.0/5.0 |
CHICAGO – In one of the most arresting and beautiful films of the year, writer/director Alfonso Cuarón transports us back to 1970s Mexico City, to his childhood and his appreciation of memory. He also creates a human story around all the nostalgia, that all takes place in the neighborhood of “Roma.”
‘BlackKkKlansman’ is a Spike Lee Joint That Burns
Submitted by PatrickMcD on August 10, 2018 - 10:51amRating: 4.5/5.0 |
CHICAGO – Director Spike Lee has hit the motherlode in good timing of the kind that says “Everything Old is New Again.” His overview in the true story of a black man that went undercover within the Klu Klux Klan in the 1970s nicely mirrors our current president’s divisiveness in the incendiary “BlacKkKlansman.”
‘All the Money in the World’ Has a Soft Landing
Submitted by PatrickMcD on December 21, 2017 - 1:52pmRating: 3.0/5.0 |
CHICAGO – A bitter and old rich man won’t take responsibility for the co-opting of something he is directly connected to. Is this the Trump administration or “All the Money in the World”? Christopher Plummer portrays mogul J. Paul Getty, trying to steer clear of his grandson’s kidnapping.
Energy of Visual Cinema is the Power of ‘Wonderstruck’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on October 31, 2017 - 11:02amRating: 3.5/5.0 |
CHICAGO – In one of the coolest visual films of the Fall Season thus far, “Wonderstruck” is another winner from director Todd Haynes (“Carol”), who adapts a Young Adult graphic novel by Brian Selznick (who also wrote the screenplay). The wonder of it all, baby.