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Blu-Ray Review: ‘The Slammin’ Salmon’ Should Be Sent Back
CHICAGO– The Broken Lizard Comedy Troupe (Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske) have made consistently funny, unique comedies since they broke through with...
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TV Review: ‘Perfect Couples’ is Adequate But Far From Perfect
CHICAGO– Since practically the beginning of TV, sitcoms about the trials of being in a couple are a dime a dozen. Today it takes innovative, highly intelligent writing to make the mundane, everyday...
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Film Review: Sarah Jessica Parker in ‘I Don’t Know How She Does It’
CHICAGO– She produced and starred in one of the great TV-to-film franchises of the last 15 years. She has made millions in endorsements for the fashion industry. She is married to a prominent celebrity...
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Blu-ray Review: Insulting, Miscast ‘I Don’t Know How She Does It’
CHICAGO– “I Don’t Know How She Does It” could have been just another misogynistic (you would never see “I Don’t Know How HE Does It”…the very title implies sexism) alleged comedy but it goes well...
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Interviews: Channing Tatum, Joe Manganiello Disrobe ‘Magic Mike’
CHICAGO– Beefcake is on parade in the new film “Magic Mike,” about a troupe of male strippers in sunny Florida. The film was partially based on the true life experiences of Channing Tatum, who did...
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Film Review: Channing Tatum Reveals the Male Stripper in ‘Magic Mike’
CHICAGO– It turns out that Channing Tatum did a bit of male stripping on the way up the show business ladder, which adds some spice and verisimilitude to “Magic Mike,” a backstage tale about the...
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Film Review: Comedy, Breeding Don’t Mix in Lame ‘The Babymakers’
CHICAGO– One of the questions we’re never suppose to ask the married couple without kids is, ‘when are you going to have kids?’ There might be specific reasons that it’s none of your damn business....
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Blu-ray Review: ‘Magic Mike’ May Not Be What You’re Expecting
CHICAGO– Warner Bros. advertised Steven Soderbergh’s “Magic Mike” as a non-stop beefcake show, the equivalent of “Showgirls” for the ladies. It’s not quite that. In fact, the film is more drama than...
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Blu-ray Review: HBO’s ‘The Newsroom’ Rivets, Frustrates at Same Time
CHICAGO– Aaron Sorkin’s “The Newsroom,” recently released on Blu-ray and DVD, drives me crazy. The HBO drama can be so thematically dense and brings up subjects too often missing from the national...
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TV Review: HBO’s ‘The Newsroom’ Adjusts Its Broadcast Style
CHICAGO– There’s no television program that can be more simultaneously brilliant and frustrating as Aaron Sorkin’s “The Newsroom,” returning tonight, July 14, 2013, to start an already-tumultuous...
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TV Feature: The 11 Biggest Emmy Snubs of 2013
CHICAGO– The 2013 Emmy nominations were announced this morning, leading to the natural hand-wringing and chest-beating over who missed the cut. Before we get to the most egregious snubs of the year, a...
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Film Review: ‘Deliver Us From Evil’ Goes Straight for the Jugular
CHICAGO– “Deliver Us from Evil” is director Scott Derrickson’s second foray into possession horror. His first, the excellent “The Exorcism of Emily Rose,” was taut, thoughtful and offered some truly...
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Film Review: Supremely Silly ‘Mortdecai’ is a Pleasant Surprise
CHICAGO– I have to say while watching Johnny Depp in “Mortdecai,” I found myself amused. I rarely elicited anything more than a slight chuckle, but its indomitable spirit of silliness made it a not...
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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 30 Pairs of Passes to ‘Ride Along 2’ With Ice...
CHICAGO– In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 30 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the new comedy“Ride Along 2” starring Ice Cube from Kevin Hart!“Ride Along...
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Film Review: ‘Ride Along 2’ Takes a Bumpy Trip to a Dead End
CHICAGO– Kevin Hart’s license to riff should be revoked. “Ride Along 2” is an aimless, pointless and seemingly endless sequel to the bafflingly successful action comedy from a couple years back. Hart...
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Film Review: ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ is a Marvel Entertainment Gem
CHICAGO– In doing “comic book” movies right, Marvel Entertainment has established a formula of decent back stories, complex villainy and probable scenarios. In continuing to tell a history of the...
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Interview: Co-Directors Josh Gordon & Will Speck Invite All to ‘Office...
CHICAGO– The raucous party movie has become a reliable staple in movieland, and now a production tackles the holiday soiré, and all that can go wrong. “Office Christmas Party” is co-directed by Josh...
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Film Review: ‘Office Christmas Party’ is Just Ho-Hum Humbug
CHICAGO– “Office Christmas Party” summons up a few jolly ho-ho-ho’s, but can’t quite deliver even one decent belly laugh you’d expect, considering the talented cast chock full of funny folks. It’s...
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Film Review: ‘The Predator’ is the Best Sequel Reboot of the Series
CHICAGO– By the standards of Predator sequels, “The Predator” is easily the best of the bunch. But that’s a depressingly low bar to clear… kind of like saying you got the nicest looking “Yugo” on the...
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