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Blu-Ray Review: Ridiculous ‘The Warrior’s Way’ Works as Guilty Pleasure
CHICAGO– Singmoo Lee’s “The Warrior’s Way” is by no means a traditionally “good” movie but it does pass one basic test of escapist Blu-ray fare — I was never bored. And I was often entertained by the...
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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 35 Pairs of Chicago Passes to ‘Straw Dogs’ With...
CHICAGO– In our latest thriller edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 35 admit-two passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of the new film “Straw Dogs” starring James...
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Blu-ray Review: ‘Straw Dogs’ Remake Fails to Equal Power of Original Film
CHICAGO– The 2011 remake of Sam Peckinpah’s galvanizing 1971 classic is a film destined to appeal to no one. It’s not poorly made, and the writer/director Rod Lurie is gifted at crafting suspenseful...
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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 10 Pairs of Anytime Passes to ‘L!fe Happens’...
CHICAGO– In our latest “R”-rated, single-motherhood comedy edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 10 admit-two run-of-engagement anytime movie passes up for grabs to the new film “L!fe...
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Film Review: Delightful ‘Life Happens’ Proves Truth is Funny
CHICAGO– Is it possible to be addled in encroaching middle age? Because “Life Happens,” a film about an ex-party girl turned single mother, starring “it” girl Krysten Ritter, actually is quite funny,...
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Film Review: Trip to Katie Aselton’s ‘Black Rock’ Lacks Purpose
Rating: 2.5/5.0CHICAGO– I really admire the girl power approach to the thriller genre in Katie Aselton’s surprising genre effort, “Black Rock,” but the admirable effort doesn’t change the fact that the...
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Film Review: Dull ‘Homefront’ Can’t Get Action Into an Action Movie
CHICAGO– Sylvester Stallone is a difficult man to comprehend, unless if doing a thesis on male menopause. The one time screenwriter of gritty soul pictures like “Rocky,” “Paradise Alley” and “First...
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Blu-ray Review: Even Villainous James Franco Can’t Save Dull ‘Homefront’
CHICAGO– Jason Statham has become an amorphous blob in the action genre, but an amorphous blob who is his own archetype, nonetheless. With the “Expendables” movies he began to take the genre torch from...
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Film Review: Julianne Moore Delivers Shattering Portrayal in ‘Still Alice’
CHICAGO– In one of the best film acting performances from 2014, Julianne Moore devastatingly portrays a woman in her fifties who is a victim of early onset Alzheimer’s disease. As the effects of...
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Podtalk: Actor Lee Perkins Hammers it Home in ‘The Domestics’
CHICAGO– The horror of a post apocalyptic world is ripe for exploration, and the new film “The Domestics” is the latest to take us down that road. Tyler Hoechlin and Kate Bosworth portray a married...
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