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Film Review: ‘Parkland’ Starkly Recreates November 22, 1963
CHICAGO– It’s been close to 50 years since 11/22/1963, the day when a certain American innocence was lost with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In time for that anniversary, is the...
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Film Review: ‘That Awkward Moment’ Another Dishonest Rom-Com
CHICAGO– “That Awkward Moment” posits its cheeky hashtag of a title concept as one relating to when Friday night flings yield from becoming Saturday daytime couplings (to paraphrase Woody Harrelson’s...
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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 25 Pairs of Passes to ‘Neighbors’ With Seth...
CHICAGO– In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 25 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the hilarious family vs. frat comedy“Neighbors” starring Seth Rogen, Zac...
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Film Review: Funny But Familiar Trip to Frat House in ‘Neighbors’
CHICAGO– I have a high tolerance for Seth Rogen, but he begins to show some signs of creative exhaustion in “Neighbors,” a raunchy frat house comedy that’s never quite as funny as it should be. Rogen’s...
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Red-Carpet Video Interviews: Zac Efron, Emily Ratajkowski for ‘We Are Your...
CHICAGO– HollywoodChicago.com presents our red-carpet video coverage of the “We Are Your Friends” premiere in Chicago on Aug. 19, 2015. We interview stars Zac Efron and Emily Ratajkowski along with...
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Exclusive Portraits: Zac Efron, Emily Ratajkowski on the ‘We Are Your...
CHICAGO– Credited for the birthplace of house music, Chicago on Aug. 19, 2015 was one of the first cities to premiere the new film “We Are Your Friends” about a rising DJ (Zac Efron) seeking to find...
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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 10 Pairs of Guaranteed Passes to ‘We Are Your...
CHICAGO– In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 10 pairs of guaranteed anytime movie tickets up for grabs to the new electronic music film “We Are Your Friends” starring Zac Efron and...
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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 30 Pairs of Passes to ‘Dirty Grandpa’ With...
CHICAGO– In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 30 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the new comedy“Dirty Grandpa” starring Robert De Niro and Zac Efron!“Dirty...
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Film Review: Pointless Trip Back to ‘Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising’
CHICAGO– The original “Neighbors” was a funny enough movie, that still boasted at least a couple of big laughs. “Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising” only manages the occasional chuckle here and there. As far...
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Interview: Adam Devine, Director Jake Szymanski Realize ‘Mike and Dave Need...
CHICAGO– The funniest movie of the summer describes its whole situation through the title – “Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates.” This hilarious farce features a killer cast, led by Adam Devine and Zac...
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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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