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).
Somebody Answer! On-Air Film Review of ‘Knock at the Cabin’
Rating: 5.0/5.0 |
CHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on February 2nd, 2023, reviewing “Knock at the Cabin,” the 15th feature film of the Master of Unsettling Emotions, M. Night Shyamalan. In theaters on February 3rd.
A young girl named Wen (Kristen Cui) is catching grasshoppers outside a vacation cabin, which is owned by her two Dads, the gay couple Eric (Jonathan Groff) and Andrew (Ben Aldridge). Out of the blue and in the midst of the remote woods, Wen is approached by Leonard (Dave Bautista), a somewhat creepy and large man who inevitable asks if he can come in. When the girl runs inside, her dads and she hear a knock on the cabin door. Leonard has brought three companions, and all their lives are about to never be the same.
Knock at the Cabin
Photo credit: Universal Pictures
Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com reviewed “Knock at the Cabin” during the Morning Mess with Scott Thompson on WBGR-FM, Monroe, Wisconsin, February 3rd, 2023 …
By PATRICK McDONALD |