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HollywoodChicago.com publisher Adam Fendelman interviews "A Mighty Heart" director Michael Winterbottom in Chicago on June 14, 2007.
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Published: May 05, 2008
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CHICAGO -- Move over, Superman. This lush, high-octane playboy never tasted so good.
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Published: May 04, 2008
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CHICAGO - As a testament to its set design, it wasn't immediately clear if certain structures were naturally part of the Strawdog Theatre space or if they were fabricated specifically for the "Old Tow...
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Published: May 01, 2008
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"Hoop Dreams" filmmakers Steve James and Peter Gilbert are bringing "At the Death House Door" to Chicago for a one-week engagement at the Gene Siskel Film Center starting on May 10, 2008 at 8 p.m.
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Published: Apr 27, 2008
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CHICAGO - I interviewed actor and director Denzel Washington on Dec. 6, 2007 on the topic of "The Great Debaters," which is the second film he has directed. We spoke about the difference between what ...
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Published: Apr 26, 2008
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CHICAGO - Don't be fooled by its formulaic, Hollywoodspeak tagline. "The truth can be adjusted" is the "Michael Clayton" way of saying this film has rammed in a whole hell of a lot more than you might...
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Published: Apr 26, 2008
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CHICAGO - With his aloof character panache and colorful imagery, Wes Anderson is one of those directors you either love dearly or loathe dreadfully.
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Published: Apr 26, 2008
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CHICAGO - In 1967, author Arthur Koestler wrote the non-fiction book "The Ghost in the Machine". The title has come full circle with Friday's release of "The Kingdom" whereby the ghost must be extrica...
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Published: Apr 26, 2008
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CHICAGO - Jodie Foster reinvents herself and plays a vigilante flung galaxies out of character in "The Brave One," which opened on Friday.
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Published: Apr 26, 2008
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CHICAGO - This statement is a shrill testimony of one soldier's stance on his time spent fighting Bush's war in Iraq: "We should just nuke it and watch it all turn back to dust."
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Published: Apr 26, 2008
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CHICAGO - Had you asked me to tag "3:10 to Yuma" before I screened it, you'd think me a bumbling idiot because I had absolutely no clue what to expect.
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Published: Apr 26, 2008
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CHICAGO - While Johnny Depp's portrayal of the demon barber of Fleet Street in the 2007 film iteration sells you on his fiendish ways, actor and singer David Hess in the musical bobbles more in purgat...
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Published: Apr 25, 2008
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Short-range Bluetooth technology, which to date has most prevalently inundated the market of mobile headsets, wasn't solely designed for cell phones. What's next beyond what's already here and who's p...
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Published: Apr 25, 2008
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CHICAGO -- Some 9.7 million people weighed in to FHM Magazine on who they deem to be the planet's most sexy women. At 21 years old, Megan Fox was unveiled behind a virtual velvet curtain as the Earth'...
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Published: Apr 24, 2008
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CHICAGO - For a raucously good time, "Shoot 'Em Up" is a visceral experience you won't soon forget. Under the guise of a hardcore action gun flick, this film surprisingly has baby undertones.
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Published: Apr 22, 2008
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CHICAGO - On the "you probably haven't heard of this film but you'd do well to learn about it" front, "Ladrón Que Roba a Ladrón" is the Spanish-speaking telenovela surprise of the weekend.
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Published: Apr 22, 2008
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CHICAGO - Thank you. Try again. When your sell is entirely dependent on being utterly hi-lar-ious, you'd better trigger unruly body spasms. Otherwise, for instance, you're left with a film like "Balls...
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Published: Apr 22, 2008
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CHICAGO - While the environment is a bitterly divisive topic with people of all politics often worlds apart, there's one thing we can all agree on: Our world is changing.
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Published: Apr 22, 2008
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CHICAGO - Though not billed as a comedy, "Illegal Tender" is one of those yawningly generic films that tries too hard to be taken seriously and ends up making you laugh. If you haven't heard of the fi...
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Published: Apr 22, 2008
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CHICAGO - When the outakes are the best part of a film, you know something's seriously backward. Here's "Rush Hour 3" succinctly described in one word: Meh.
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Published: Apr 22, 2008
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CHICAGO - "Becoming Jane" is slow, stuffy - as it should be in that time period - but beautifully acted and scripted. Anne Hathaway as pre-fame Jane Austen entirely steals the show.
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Published: Apr 22, 2008
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CHICAGO - Matt Damon as Jason Bourne never thinks. He just does. Bourne's always armed with the right devices and brainwaves to foretell his next move.
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Published: Apr 22, 2008
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CHICAGO - "If you didn't watch the film and looked at people watching it, you'd see they're constantly ducking and grabbing at things," said IMAX Filmed President Greg Foster. "IMAX 3D is at the bridg...
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Published: Apr 21, 2008
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CHICAGO - "Evening," which failed to materialize in two previous attempts, was finally filmed in the hands of Hungarian director Lajos Koltai.
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Published: Apr 21, 2008
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CHICAGO - Haunted by the non-fictional ghost he was portraying, Steve Zahn - who previously had been typecast by Hollywood as a comic reliever - lost 40 dead-serious pounds for "Rescue Dawn" to walk t...
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Published: Apr 21, 2008
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CHICAGO - "Playing out extreme or unusual characters in the straightest of ways is what makes deadpan serious so funny," said "Eagle vs. Shark" director Taika Waititi. "It is the antidote to slapstick...
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Published: Apr 21, 2008
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CHICAGO - Emma Roberts as "Nancy Drew" is nice but nobody's fool.
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Published: Apr 21, 2008
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CHICAGO - After being blitzed by an onslaught of attention-demanding advertising that begged the question "who is Sarah Marshall?" even before you realized it's a film, anticipation was ravenous.
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Published: Apr 18, 2008
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Chicago film critic and HollywoodChicago.com publisher Adam Fendelman interviews "The Spiderwick Chronicles" writer and co-executive producer Holly Black about her first feature-film fantasy adaptatio...
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Published: Apr 17, 2008
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Legendary writer, director, editor and producer George Lucas ("Star Wars") spoke in Chicago on Dec. 3, 2007 at the Economic Club of Chicago. In this podcast, Adam Fendelman and colleague Brad Spirriso...
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Published: Apr 17, 2008
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This is a 10-minute audio interview with "Stardust" director Matthew Vaughn conducted by Chicago film critic Adam Fendelman of HollywoodChicago.com. This interview was published on Aug. 10, 2007.
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Published: Apr 17, 2008
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CHICAGO - "It's the difference between hunting a lion and a deer." Eli Roth, director of "Hostel: Part II," articulated in an interview with Adam Fendelman that view of his "Hostel" men as weighed aga...
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Published: Apr 16, 2008
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Chicago - When Hurricane Katrina rocked New Orleans in 2005, Chicago filmmaker Alex LeMay became fixated on the soul behind the ruin.
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Published: Apr 16, 2008
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CHICAGO - To thwart his fate of being royally screwed ("mommy, what does that mean?"), the ornery ogre who smells like the shallow end of a swamp has unwavering resolve to crown someone else as proxy ...
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Published: Apr 16, 2008
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CHICAGO - Having sold so many on a first film that's watertight in warranting a second, a sequel answers to a much higher authority. The reincarnation's lifeblood ultimately is designed not to disappo...
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Published: Apr 15, 2008
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CHICAGO - "Lucky You" undoes what "Rounders" did right. In the 1998 masterpiece, Matt Damon and Edward Norton exquisitely depict all that is divine about the game of Texas Hold 'Em for rookies and old...
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Published: Apr 15, 2008
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CHICAGO - This is why wrestlers wrestle and actors act. "The Condemned" tobogganed downhill the second it splashed the WWE on an introductory screen.
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Published: Apr 15, 2008
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CHICAGO - Anthony Hopkins returns with his unparalleled eyes of terror in "Fracture" for a sly brain battle with Ryan Gosling.
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Published: Apr 15, 2008
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CHICAGO - "CGI is getting hampered by being defined as a 'kiddie' medium," said "TMNT" writer/director Kevin Munroe in an interview with Adam Fendelman.
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Published: Apr 15, 2008
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CHICAGO - Sex appeal from burgeoning silver-screen stars has evolved. "It's my abs," Adam Brody declared following grave reflection about his magnetism. "People like abs cut from stone. I do the work ...
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Published: Apr 15, 2008
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CHICAGO - "I have a lot of nervous energy in my head. I always have to be working on something," said actor - and now entrepreneur - Billy Bob Thornton in a Chicago interview with Adam Fendelman.
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Published: Apr 15, 2008
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CHICAGO - At the heart of every great film is a good conflict. In Spidey's third advent, his heart is venomously conflicted and so is the film.
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Published: Apr 15, 2008
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CHICAGO - To purely document the life of a street-singing busker, "Once" director John Carney didn't engage actors. He married musicians.
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Published: Apr 15, 2008
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CHICAGO - I recently tagged "Illegal Tender" as the must-miss movie of the year. I stand corrected. That unconquerable 2007 cake now goes to "Sydney White," which opened on Friday.
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Published: Apr 15, 2008
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CHICAGO - It's all the rave today to exhume an epic from long, long ago and bring it back on the monster screen bigger, better and with more grandeur than ever fathomable before.
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Published: Apr 15, 2008
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CHICAGO - It's just a twist of fate, of course. I know the CGI wizards at The Weinstein Co. can't command the weather in the real word, too. But - wow - what providence.
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Published: Apr 15, 2008
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CHICAGO - The best quality about the fourth "Rambo" is its "Rambo" authenticity. The worst quality about the fourth "Rambo" is its "Rambo" authenticity.
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Published: Apr 15, 2008
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CHICAGO - Tasked with the tall order of bringing to life Ray Bradbury's classic anthology "The Martian Chronicles," director Kristina Schramm wasn't bested by the oddity of the undertaking.
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Published: Apr 14, 2008
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CHICAGO - Haunted by the non-fictional ghost he was portraying, Steve Zahn - who previously had been typecast by Hollywood as a comic reliever - lost 40 dead-serious pounds for "Rescue Dawn" to walk t...
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Published: Apr 14, 2008
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CHICAGO - The plight of the people in the hard-hitting Brazilian film "City of Men" is akin with its plight to make you aware it even exists.
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Published: Apr 14, 2008
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CHICAGO - Lauded playwright Neil LaBute was fixated on testing these human limits and exploring our different styles of conflict resolution when he minted the three-person play "In a Dark Dark House".
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Published: Apr 14, 2008
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CHICAGO - Three of the planet's most examined scribes of all time are resurrected in the meticulous Chicago production of "Brontë" from illustrious playwright Polly Teale.
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Published: Apr 14, 2008
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CHICAGO - I'm flummoxed. I know "Smart People" was supposed to be comedic drama with a splash of romance. Instead, I have been misled. It's not a comedy. It's not a tragedy. It's not even a tragicomed...
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Published: Apr 14, 2008
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CHICAGO - Diablo Cody fittingly ushered in her Chicago "Juno" junket in classic Diablo Cody style: The night prior, she blogged with brevity where she'd be kicking back and when.
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Published: Apr 11, 2008
