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Blu-ray Review: Risque, Delightful Comedy ‘Design For Living’ From Criterion
CHICAGO – From the very first scene, a first-silent exchange in which a beautiful woman enters a train car to see two handsome men sleeping across from her and chooses to draw them on her sketch pad...
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Video Game Review: Amazing ‘The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim’ is Gaming Bliss For...
CHICAGO – “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim” passes the ultimate test of the best role-playing games — entertaining tedium. RPG fans have to be willing to spend hours grinding away to upgrade their...
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Blu-ray Review: New HD Edition of Epic ‘Tora! Tora! Tora!’
CHICAGO – When I was younger, I considered the blockbuster flop “Tora! Tora! Tora!” pretty boring. Critics over the years and friends have remembered the film more fondly than when it was released and...
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Blu-ray Review: Catch Up With Horror Gem ‘Fright Night’
CHICAGO – Why didn’t more of you see “Fright Night”? Do I have to beg to get enough of you to rent or buy it on Blu-ray to justify a sequel or at the very least to prove that intelligent, fast-paced,...
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Film News: ‘Hitchcock For the Holidays’ to Screen Double Features at Music Box
CHICAGO – The unmistakable silhouette of the Master of Suspense will be cast over the Music Box Theatre during the final days of the holiday season. Ten of Alfred Hitchcock’s most beloved masterworks...
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Film Review: Matt Damon Closes Deal in ‘We Bought a Zoo’
CHICAGO – Cameron Crowe’s “We Bought a Zoo” is an undeniably manipulative crowd-pleaser but there’s something about being manipulated in such an expert manner that makes the tugging on the heartstrings...
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Film News: First Trailer Released For Ridley Scott’s ‘Prometheus’
CHICAGO – In a week that packed trailers for some of next year’s biggest films, 20th Century Fox made sure to get in on the game. The first trailer for Ridley Scott’s “Prometheus” has released giving...
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Video Game Review: ‘Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure’ Provides Tons of Fun, But...
CHICAGO – The video game publisher Activision has never shied away from charging a little extra for the add-ons of their video games. The publishers of the “Guitar Hero” and “DJ Hero” series,...
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Blu-ray Review: Disney’s ‘The Rocketeer’ Misfires With Lackluster Rerelease
CHICAGO – Twenty years before helming “Captain America,” director Joe Johnston made another superhero picture that was equal parts nostalgic and bombastically patriotic. Though 1991’s “The Rocketeer”...
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Film Review: Steven Spielberg Casts a Golden Light Upon ‘War Horse’
CHICAGO – Opening on Christmas Day is a film about a boy, his horse and war, brought to the screen by America’s most popular living director. “War Horse” is the most critic proof film ever realized....
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Film News: ‘Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol’ Wins Christmas Weekend Box...
CHICAGO – In a weekend full of new releases and tons of options, the hot movie to see was “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.” Six different movies were estimated at over $7.5 million, but “Ghost...
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Slideshow: 34 Exclusive Celebrity Portraits at 2011 Wizard World Chicago...
CHICAGO – The holidays are a perfect time to remember some of 2011’s great entertainment events, and one of them was the Wizard World Chicago Comic Con, which took place August 11th-14th. Celebrities...
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Interview: ‘Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory’ Star Peter Ostrum as Charlie
CHICAGO – One of the great children’s films is “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory,” released in 1971. As the movie celebrates its 40th Anniversary with a lavish new Blu-ray package, the main...
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TV News: AMC Renews ‘Hell on Wheels’ For Second Season
CHICAGO – AMC has had quite the up and down year for itself. While the basic cable network has had some behind the scenes struggles with some of its hit shows (including contract struggles for “Mad...
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Film Feature: Top 10 Films of 2011
CHICAGO – As the days count down to the end of the year, it’s a perfect time for a countdown of the top ten films of 2011. Last week, Brian Tallerico of HollywoodChicago.com posted his 10 Best of 2011,...
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Slideshow: 29 Exclusive Portraits From ‘Hollywood Celebrities & Memorabilia...
CHICAGO – One of the great events in Chicago to interact with celebrity favorites is at the “Hollywood Celebrities and Memorabilia Show.” In 2011, the autumn event took place on October 1st and 2nd,...
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Film Feature: The 10 Best Overlooked Films of 2011
CHICAGO – Some films never get a fair shot with audiences. They open in a handful of art house theaters scattered throughout the country before inconspicuously landing on DVD. Passionate movie lovers...
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Blu-ray Review: Woody Allen’s Exquisite, Romantic ‘Midnight in Paris’
CHICAGO – At times, Woody Allen’s new film releases stink like an old glove, and thankfully there are times when they fit like an old glove. His latest is “Midnight in Paris,” just released on Blu-ray...
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Interviews: 1980s Icons Anthony Michael Hall, Louis Gossett Jr.
CHICAGO – Two actors who made a mark in film during the 1980s did it at different points in their lives. Anthony Michael Hall was a teen idol, channeling director John Hughes in “The Breakfast Club”...
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DVD Review: ‘Circumstance’ Offers Bracing Exploration of Cultural Repression
CHICAGO – Set during the precarious moment following Obama’s election and prior to the Green Wave, Maryam Keshavarz’s Iran-set feature debut is one of the most provocative cinematic treasures of 2011....
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