DVD Review: Excellent Box Set For ‘Monk: The Complete Series’
CHICAGO– Winner of several Emmy Awards, including three for star Tony Shalhoub for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, “Monk” was easily one of the most successful and influential programs of...
View ArticleTV Review: HBO’s Disappointing ‘Hemingway & Gellhorn’ with Clive Owen, Nicole...
CHICAGO– It pains me to say this — HBO’s “Hemingway & Gellhorn” is a complete mess, a film littered with awful directorial decisions, built on a misguided screenplay, and featuring performances...
View ArticleBlu-ray Review: Naggingly Hollow ‘Hemingway and Gellhorn’ Falls Flat
CHICAGO– It doesn’t sound like a particularly bad idea. In exploring the globe-trotting adventures of author Ernest Hemingway and war correspondent Martha Gellhorn, why not use archival footage of the...
View ArticleHollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 25 Pairs of Passes to ‘Pain & Gain’ With Mark...
CHICAGO– In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film with our unique social giveaway technology, we have 25 pairs of movie passes up for grabs to the advance screening of the highly...
View ArticleFilm Review: Clever Cast Can’t Quite Save Crazy ‘Pain & Gain’
CHICAGO– Michael Bay’s “Pain & Gain” tells such a ridiculous story that it has to be true. Based on the infamous case of the Sun Gym Gang, a trio of bodybuilders who committed some unspeakable,...
View ArticleTV News: CBS Fall Schedule Includes New Nights For Big Hits, Five New Shows
CHICAGO– When you’re the #1 network on TV, it must be tempting to stay the course. However, CBS always shakes things up a bit and this year is no different. The 2013-14 schedule, announced this...
View ArticleHollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 100 Pairs of Suburban Passes to ‘Teenage Mutant...
CHICAGO– In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 100 pairs of advance-screening suburban movie passes up for grabs to “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” with Megan Fox and Will Arnett!...
View ArticleFilm Review: Armie Hammer Sits for Geoffrey Rush in ‘Final Portrait’
CHICAGO– Paris in the 1960s seems to be a place where anything was possible. “Final Portrait” is an indication of this, as Armie Hammer portrays a Mad Men style American critic (what!) in 1964, who...
View ArticleFilm News: ‘Mrs. Maisel’ Rachel Brosnahan at Actors Training Center...
CHICAGO– She’s an Emmy Winner for a television character that lived in a different America, 60 years ago. Rachel Brosnahan is “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” of Amazon Prime, portraying Miriam “Midge”...
View ArticleOn-Air TV Review: Stand Up For ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’
CHICAGO– Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on The Eddie Volkman Show on WSSR-FM (Star 96.7 Joliet, Illinois) on February 25th, 2022, reviewing the TV series “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,”...
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