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Film Review: ‘Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates’ is Hilarious Joy
CHICAGO– In these difficult times, we flat out need a belly laugh. The timing of “Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates” couldn’t be better, because this group of comic actors and this movie provides a...
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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 40 Pairs of Passes to ‘Baywatch’ With Dwayne...
CHICAGO– In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 40 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the new film “Baywatch” starring Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron!“Baywatch,”...
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Film Review: Nostalgia Not Enough to Save ‘Baywatch’ From Drowning
CHICAGO– Going to the beach is simultaneously an exciting and disgusting experience. Swimming in the cool water that thousands have gone inside in the past, with more than a few leaving bodily fluid...
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Film Review: Funny ‘The Disaster Artist’ Takes Us Back to ‘The Room’
CHICAGO– “The Room” is a post-millennial cult movie that plays the midnight and college movie circuit, entertaining audiences with its sheer badness. Its story is told in the “The Disaster Artist,”...
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Interview, Audio: Veteran Screenwriters of ‘The Disaster Artist’
CHICAGO– The screenwriting team of Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber have had many adventures plying their trade, ever since their breakthrough “500 Days of Summer” in 2009. Their latest assignment...
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Film Review: 'Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile' Unfortunately...
CHICAGO– Hearing the details of tragic stories, we often find it hard to understand how they got into that situation in the first place, especially since all the red flags are so obvious to us. “I’d...
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Film Review: HollywoodChicago.com On the Air Reviews “Scoob!”
CHICAGO– It was inevitable that the iconic cartoon character Scooby Doo would get the modern animation treatment, and the new film “Scoob!” opens May 15th, 2020 on VOD platforms. Patrick McDonald of...
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On-Air Film Review: ‘Firestarter’ in the Heat of the Moment
CHICAGO– Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on The Eddie Volkman Show with Hannah B on WSSR-FM (Star 96.7 Joliet, Illinois) on May 13th, 2022, reviewing “Firestarter,” a new remake of the...
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Film Review: Zac Efron the Weak Link in Wrestling Drama ‘The Iron Claw’
CHICAGO– An epic piece of miscasting puts “The Iron Claw” in a sleeper hold it’s never quite able to escape from … the pint sized gaping empty hole at its center has a name, and it is Zac Efron. Efron...
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On-Air Film Review: Raunchy John Cena in ‘Ricky Stanicky’
CHICAGO– Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Dan Baker on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on March 7th, 2024, reviewing “Ricky Stanicky,” featuring John Cena in a...
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