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Despite Rihanna, Peter Berg’s ‘Battleship’ Lands as One of the Best Popcorn...
Rating: 4.0/5.0CHICAGO– “Battleship” certainly could simplistically be reduced to a 131-minute propaganda piece of why you might want to enlist in the U.S. Navy – that is, if Earth had to ward off...
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Contemporary Society is Caught Online in ‘Disconnect’
Rating: 4.0/5.0CHICAGO– “Disconnect” is a punch in the gut, the backlash of our current technology, and a film that could have happened yesterday. It is a trenchant cautionary tale, warning us about...
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Sins of Modern Parenting Are ‘What Maisie Knew’
Rating: 4.0/5.0CHICAGO– When mixing parenting responsibility, the separation of those parents and a legal system that cannot address the farce of human retaliation, the results become “What Maisie...
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Opportunity For Insight Wasted in ‘The East’
Rating: 2.5/5.0CHICAGO– Brit Marling is an undeniably smart, forward-thinking writer/actress in that she refuses to succumb to gender stereotypes and tries to chart her own way through the independent...
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‘The Giver’ Takes Too Much From Young Adult Formula
Rating: 3.0/5.0CHICAGO– “The Giver” must have seemed a lot newer back when it was written than it does now. The Newberry Medal winning, middle school staple predates many other Young Adult series about...
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Adolescence Boldly Drawn in ‘Diary of a Teenage Girl’
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– Real boldness, real truth, is hard to fine in teenage stories. The confusing and hormonal time is often trivialized, or used as a prop for unlikely situations. “Diary of a...
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‘The Aftermath’ is Strained & Illicit Romance During War
Rating: 4.0/5.0CHICAGO– One of the roots of the sexual revolution in America was World War II (as it was the roots of many social movements). The stakes of life and death in an instant motivates the...
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‘Long Shot’ Awkwardly Combines Politics & Romance
Rating: 2.5/5.0CHICAGO– “Long Shot” is a bit of a hybrid that can’t quite decide what it wants to be. Is it a political satire, or is it another in a long line of Seth Rogen stoner comedies with a...
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Titans Clash! On-Air Review of ‘Godzilla vs Kong’
Rating: 4.5/5.0CHICAGO– Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on April 1st, 2021, reviewing the new film “Godzilla...
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Eggers Shakespeare! On-Air Film Review of ‘The Northman’
Rating: 4.5/5.0CHICAGO– Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on April 21st, reviewing “The Northman,” an adaptation...
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