CHICAGO – Theatrical satires of the Star Wars Universe are like the number of TV series the universe has wrought … too many to figure out if anything is worthwhile. But “Trade Federation” (subtitled “Or Let’s Explore Globalization Through the Star Wars Prequels”), presented by Otherworld Theatre in Wrigleyville Chicago, gets it right on.
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Bard Burner! On-Air Review of ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on January 28, 2022 - 6:24pm Rating: 4.0/5.0 |
CHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on January 27th, 2022, reviewing the the adaptation of “The Tragedy of Macbeth” by Joel Coen, in select theaters now and streaming on Apple TV Plus.
Feature: The Importance of the Quiet Revolution of ‘In the Heights’
Submitted by JonHC on June 20, 2021 - 2:22pm- Anthony Ramos
- Corey Hawkins
- Daphne Rubin-Vega
- Dascha Polanco
- Film Review
- Gregory Diaz IV
- Hamilton
- HBO MAX
- HollywoodChicago.com
- HollywoodChicago.com Content
- In the Heights
- Jimmy Smits
- Jon Espino
- Jon M Chu
- Leslie Grace
- Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Marc Anthony
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- Movie Review
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CHICAGO - When I used to have cable television (when I lived with my parents and they paid for it), there was this section of one hundred or so music channels, each with a different music style to explore. I remember stumbling across it one day when I was younger, in complete awe that there was even that variety of music in the world.
N.W.A. Influences an Era in ‘Straight Outta Compton’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on August 13, 2015 - 7:28pm Rating: 3.5/5.0 |
CHICAGO – Gangsta rap, like all the revolutionary and society bending genres before it, was formulated from dire frustration and a need to shake up the surroundings that encased their creators. The prime movers of gangsta was the group N.W.A., and their story is told in “Straight Outta Compton.”
