HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 50 Pairs of Passes to ‘Jason Bourne’ With Matt...
CHICAGO– In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the highly anticipated new film “Jason Bourne” starring Matt Damon!“Jason...
View ArticleFilm Review: Matt Damon is Fighting Mad in Tense ‘Jason Bourne’
CHICAGO– To come back to a character that everyone thought he had left behind, Matt Damon needed the right creative team. He got it again in co-writer (with Christopher Rouse) and director Paul...
View ArticleFilm Review: Matthew McConaughey is All That Glitters in ‘Gold’
CHICAGO– The relish that Matthew McConaughey displays in creating his latest character in “Gold,” a Willy Loman-type mining exec who is looking for his biggest score, is most of the reason to...
View ArticleFilm Review: American Legal System is Put on Trial in ‘Crown Heights’
CHICAGO– There is no justice for the poor. That should be carved in stone on courthouses beside all the platitudes of American “equality” and “law.” In an eye-opening narrative film based on a true...
View ArticleFilm Review: Aaron Sorkin’s Directorial Debut in ‘Molly’s Game’
CHICAGO– High stakes poker are for folks who prefer to get their rush of adrenalin from the turn of a card rather than other life risks. The positives, the negatives and everything in between are in...
View ArticleFilm Review: ‘Hostiles’ with Christian Bale is a Big Bad Bore
CHICAGO– “Hostiles” is an exercise in prestige western boredom. It’s competently made, but its as lifeless as a scalped corpse on the prairie. It’s long on pretty western locales and impressive facial...
View ArticleFilm News: DAY SEVEN of 54th Chicago International Film Festival is Carey...
CHICAGO– DAYSEVEN of the 54th Chicago International Film Festival (CIFF) on Tuesday, October 16th, 2018, and features a tribute to the amazing young actress Carey Mulligan (“Drive,” “The Great...
View ArticleFilm Review: ‘Vice’ Proves It’s Okay to Laugh at Dick Cheney
CHICAGO– “Vice” is an occasionally very funny attempt to demystify the life and legacy of former Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney. Using some of the same gimmicks and narrative trickery...
View ArticleFilm Review: ‘The Kitchen’ is Once Upon a Time in New York City
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”...
View ArticlePodtalk: Rebecca Hall on Her Directorial Debut for ‘Passing’
CHICAGO– Rebecca Hall is not content being one of the best actors of her generation. She also has directed her first feature film, “Passing,” streaming on Netflix beginning November 10th, 2021. Set in...
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