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Island of Creep Factor! On-Air Film Review of ‘Blink Twice’
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on August 22nd, reviewing the new film “Blink Twice,”...
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Blast-Off From the Past: Audio Film Review of ‘Fly Me to the Moon’
Rating: 3.0/5.0CHICAGO– Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio film review for “Fly Me the Moon,” an alternative history satire about the Apollo 11 first-msn-on-the-moon mission, featuring...
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For Love! On-Air Film Review of ‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance’
Rating: 4.0/5.0CHICAGO– Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on February 9th, 2023, reviewing “Magic Mike’s Last...
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Shirts Off for Tatum! On-Air Film Review of ‘The Lost City’
Rating: 2.0/5.0CHICAGO– Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on March 24th, reviewing “The Lost City,” featuring...
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Spike is Back! Counter Point Review of ‘Free Guy’
Rating: 2.0/5.0CHICAGO– Welcome back to film reviewer Spike Walters … “Free Guy” has the sort of premise that seems to tingle with possibility. Ryan Reynolds stars as a background character in a Grand...
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'Free Guy' Doesn’t Play Around When It Comes to Delivering a Good Time
Rating: 4.0/5.0CHICAGO– Playing video games is one of the single most infuriating experiences that I continue to put myself through. One of my few masochistic traits emerge whenever I boot up my PC or...
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‘Kingsman: The Golden Circle’ is High-Flying Spy Fun
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– “Kingsman: The Golden Circle” is a hard “R”-rated sequel with a thoroughly juvenile soul. It pairs silly wordplay, dirty jokes and a startling amount of bloody and gratuitous...
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‘The LEGO Batman Movie’ Delivers the Usual Laughs
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– “The LEGO Batman Movie” is more of a parody than the laugh-out-loud hijinks of the surprising “The LEGO Movie,” but the legend of The Bats is ripe for a good skewering, and the...
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‘Hail, Caesar!’ is Coen Bros. Excellence for Movie Lovers
Rating: 5.0/5.0CHICAGO– Writer/directors Joel and Ethan Coen love the movies, and that love is magnificently played out in “Hail, Caesar!” As they riff on religion, geopolitics and 1950s morality,...
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Quentin Tarantino Stays Familiar in ‘The Hateful Eight’
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– Story-wise, there is not much difference in “The Hateful Eight” – regarding themes and violence – that writer/director Quentin Tarantino hasn’t explored before. But it is also...
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Nichely Entertaining ‘Magic Mike XXL’ a Substanceless Soft Porn
Rating: 2.0/5.0CHICAGO– You know those amateur porns with no-name actors that use cheesy dialogue in between the sex scenes those viewers simply want? You never expect a real story or actually...
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‘Jupiter Ascending’ Might Cause Attention Descending
Rating: 2.0/5.0CHICAGO– “Jupiter Ascending” is certainly one of the oddest and densest of sci-fi movies, this side of “Dune,” and has some of the most laughable acting and dialogue seen in a major film...
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Human Emotions Transcend Wealth in ‘Foxcatcher’
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– In the memorable film “Barton Fink,” the title character is asked to write a wrestling movie for Wallace Beery. If Fink had isolated himself long enough, he might have come up...
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‘The Book of Life’ Has Uninspired Tale to Tell
Rating: 2.5/5.0CHICAGO– Unfortunately you can’t judge “The Book Of Life” by its cover. The movie draws on the fertile imagery of the Mexican “Day Of The Dead” to create its own animated world. The...
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‘22 Jump Street’ is a Proud Bargain Bin Blockbuster
Rating: 3.0/5.0CHICAGO– “22 Jump Street” is a big budget Hollywood sequel that actively comments on the diminishing returns of sequels. Directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller know that for every...
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Big Laughs Await in Sly, Fun ‘The LEGO Movie’
Rating: 4.5/5.0CHICAGO– The funniest movie in a long while features no human beings, just animated bland faces among interlocking plastic bricks, the toys which inspired the film. “The LEGO Movie”...
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Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx in ‘White House Down’
Rating: 1.5/5.0CHICAGO– How could a movie in which the President shoots a rocket from the back of a limousine during a car chase on the White House lawn possibly be boring? Roland Emmerich somehow...
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‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’ Almost Turns Macho Stupidity Into Art
Rating: 3.0/5.0CHICAGO– “G.I. Joe: Retaliation” is the kind of dumb summer action blockbuster that works in the season when the kids aren’t in school and the movie theater is used as an excuse to get...
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Rooney Mara, Jude Law Star in Steven Soderbergh’s Thrilling, Stellar ‘Side...
Rating: 4.5/5.0CHICAGO– Steven Soderbergh has given interviews in which he claims that his latest film, the fantastic “Side Effects,” will be his last. As much as I have my doubts that this is true, it...
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Channing Tatum’s ‘10 Years’ Resuscitates High School For 50 Worthwhile Minutes
Rating: 2.5/5.0CHICAGO– “10 Years” unintentionally backfires by proving that a real-life Hollywood couple – Channing Tatum and his actual spouse of three years Jenna Dewan-Tatum – has less on-screen...
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