‘Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day’ as Rare as Boobs Without Silicone in Hollywood
CHICAGO– Character comedies that actually have some depth and fun are as rare as boobs without silicone in Hollywood. “Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day” reaches these heights with a sensibility of an old...
View ArticleDVD Review: ‘Pushing Daisies: The Complete Second Season’ is Romantic,...
CHICAGO– The minute I saw “Pushing Daisies,” one of the very first notes I took while watching the pilot was “this is never going to last”. It was great, but it was also too quirky, strange, romantic,...
View ArticleBlu-Ray Review: Stupid ‘Marmaduke’ Fails in Every Way
CHICAGO– How do complete disasters like “Marmaduke” get made? Shouldn’t there be some sort of quality insurance and when a studio sees that a film is this execrable, they are allowed to pull some sort...
View ArticleBlu-Ray Review: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Hilary Swank Take Up Lodging in ‘The...
CHICAGO– “The Resident” is one of those thrillers in which you’re never supposed to be quite sure what the hell is going on and the deceptive description on the back of the box makes it sound like it...
View ArticleFilm Review: ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’ Solidifies Franchise
Peter Jackson and Bilbo Baggins find their groove in the entertaining “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” an improvement over “An Unexpected Journey” in every single department. Whereas the first...
View ArticleFilm Review: ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ a Gleeful Space Romp
CHICAGO– “Guardians Of The Galaxy” is a gleeful Star Wars knockoff dressed up in Marvel Comics clothing. It occupies the same universe as Marvel’s other properties, but its tone is decidedly sillier....
View ArticleHollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 30 Pairs of Passes to ‘The Hobbit: The Battle of...
CHICAGO– To celebrate the release of “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” in cinemas, HollywoodChicago.com, Warner Bros. Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and New Line Cinema are giving...
View ArticleFilm Review: Too-Long ‘The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies’ Delivers on...
CHICAGO– Though he’s never been called it before in scientific speak, I’m saying it now: Peter Jackson is a master of mitosis. He’s one of Hollywood’s best in splitting up the cinematic cellular DNA of...
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