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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 40 Pairs of Passes, 3 Soundtracks to Spielberg’s...
CHICAGO – In our latest blockbuster edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 40 admit-two movie passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of the highly anticipated new film “The...
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Blu-ray Review: Jessica Chastain Compensates For Flawed Script in ‘The Debt’
CHICAGO – It’s little surprise that Jessica Chastain has received so much attention during this year’s awards season. Thanks to a series of release date delays, six of her films were released in 2011,...
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Interview: Gary Oldman Finds Career Role in ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’
CHICAGO – Gary Oldman is a living legend. He’s just as fascinating in person as one would hope after seeing him dominate his craft in films like “Sid and Nancy,” “JFK,” “The Professional,” “True...
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Film News: Nominations For Critics’ Choice Awards Revealed
CHICAGO – Nominations have just been released this morning for this year’s Critics’ Choice Awards, and some common trends in award ceremonies we have already seen continue in this set of nominees. With...
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Blu-ray Review: Beloved ‘The Help’ With Viola Davis, Emma Stone
CHICAGO – “The Help” has been one of the most divisive movies of 2011. I know some critics who absolutely loathe it, finding the easy-to-digest version of something as important as civil rights to be...
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Blu-ray Review: ‘The Hangover Part II’ Offers More of the Same
CHICAGO – Todd Phillips has huge balls. Never before has a sequel hit SO many of the exact same beats as its predecessor. More of a remake of the film that came before than most slasher franchises,...
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TV News: FX Renews ‘The League’ For Fourth Season
CHICAGO – Fantasy football and comedy series fans rejoice! There will be a fourth Shiva Bowl next year, as FX has officially renewed “The League” for a fourth season. The announcement came this...
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Film News: ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Prologue Revealed at Chicago’s Navy Pier IMAX
CHICAGO – For just a few minutes and to just a petite sampling of Chicago uber fans, Bane has risen. And if it were solely up to Nolan, he’d do it this way 20 more times. “The Dark Knight Rises”...
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Blu-ray Review: ‘Life, Above All’ Takes Child’s Eye View of AIDS Pandemic
CHICAGO – According to multiple reports from the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, Oliver Schmitz’s artfully lensed, sensitively acted film received one of the warmest receptions. Set in a modern South...
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Film Feature: The Best Supporting Performances of 2011
CHICAGO – Kicking off our annual series of year-end film features, we begin with the ensemble players, the supporting cast members who provided the necessary dramatic support to allow their leading men...
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Film Review: David Cronenberg’s ‘A Dangerous Method’ Needed More Risk
Rating: 3.5/5.0 CHICAGO – There are glimpses of actual danger in David Cronenberg’s divisive “A Dangerous Method” with Michael Fassbender, Viggo Mortensen, and Keira Knightley, and the film has a...
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Film Review: Robert Downey Jr. Personifies ‘Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’
CHICAGO – The production team of “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” – designers, crew, writers, director and actors – should be proud of the level of respect they have given and embodied in...
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HollywoodChicago.com Halfoff: $5 (50% Off) For Double Feature at Chicago’s...
CHICAGO – Exclusive! HollywoodChicago.com has negotiated for our readers an alternative Christmas HollywoodChicago.com Halfoff in partnership with Chicago’s legendary Music Box Theatre! For just $5...
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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 3 CD, DVD Combo Packs to Slash’s First Live Solo...
CHICAGO – In our latest live solo album edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Music, we have 3 special-edition CD and DVD combo packs up for grabs for Slash’s first-ever live solo album “Made in...
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Interview: ‘Young Adult’ Director Jason Reitman on Open-Ended, Non-Message...
CHICAGO – Instead of trying to fill giant shoes in the shadows of his legendary filmmaker father Ivan Reitman (“Ghostbusters”), Jason Reitman has been successfully blazing his own path of films without...
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Film News: ‘Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’ Rules Weekend Box Office
CHICAGO – In a weekend box office that had a little more life than the previous weekend, “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” reigned supreme. The detective thriller starring Robert Downey Jr. made an...
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Film News: Terrence Malick’s ‘The Tree of Life’ Wins Four 2011 Chicago Film...
CHICAGO – Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life” led the way for film in the eyes of the Chicago Film Critics Association, as they have dubbed it the Best Picture of 2011. Malick also took Best Director...
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Blu-ray Review: Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The Lady Vanishes’ Gets Criterion Upgrade
CHICAGO – Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Lady Vanishes” isn’t one of his most heralded films. You don’t hear it mentioned on most lists of the best works of arguably the most influential director who ever...
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Film News: New ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Trailer Released
CHICAGO – Holy exploding football field Batman! The new trailer for “The Dark Knight Rises” has officially been released from Warner Bros., and let’s just say there is a lot to look at. Unlike the...
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Film Review: ‘The Artist’ is Magical Ode to Old Hollywood
CHICAGO – “The Artist” is the kind of film for which a critic feels an added responsibility. The fact is that I know that a large number of readers won’t go anywhere near a movie that is described as...
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