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HBO’s ‘Big Love’ Locks Viewers in For Season-Three Family Drama
Television Rating: 4.5/5.0CHICAGO– How does Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton) do it on HBO’s “Big Love”? He has three beautiful wives, a sea of children, parents at war with each other, politics with a...
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TV Review: ‘Big Love’ Starts Promising Fourth Season, Great Third Now on DVD
CHICAGO– It took me some time to get on the “Big Love” wavelength. HBO’s controversial show hasn’t really been on my radar since its debut season, one that I thought featured a great cast but...
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‘My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done’ Inspires Genuine Head-Scratching
Rating: 2.5/5.0CHICAGO– When David Lynch came to Chicago for an “Inland Empire” screening back in 2007, he offered memorable advice to a moviegoer baffled by his work. He said that his audience should...
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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Signed Poster By ‘Barry Munday’ Star Patrick...
CHICAGO– In this edition of the HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: DVD, two lucky winners will clean up with two DVDs from Magnolia Pictures for the movies “The Great Buck Howard” and “The Answer Man” plus a...
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TV Review: Stunning Premiere of ‘Big Love’ Returns Show to Prime Form
CHICAGO– As the credits for the premiere of the fifth and final season of “Big Love” started, I wondered exactly what I wanted from this year. Like Chloe Sevigny and most fans of the show, I agreed...
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DVD Review: Dramatic Depth of ‘Big Love: The Complete Collection’
CHICAGO– HBO’s “Big Love” never quite got the attention it deserved. It’s the bridge from the “Sopranos” era of HBO to the “Boardwalk Empire” and “Game of Thrones” one that we live in now and the...
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TV Review: Chloe Sevigny Stars in Daring ‘Hit and Miss’
CHICAGO– It’s difficult to describe “Hit and Miss,” debuting tonight on The Audience Network after the season premiere of “Damages,” exclusively on DirecTV, without it sounding horrendously cliched....
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TV Review: Take Harrowing Trip to ‘American Horror Story: Asylum’
CHICAGO– When we got to the end of FX’s excellent “American Horror Story” and nearly all of the characters were dead, a natural question arose — what the Hell do they do for season two? Welcome to...
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Interview: Director Whit Stillman Celebrates ‘Love & Friendship’
CHICAGO– Say the name Whit Stillman in certain cinema circles, and a rush of admiration soon follows. The director made a name for himself with his debut film “Metropolitan’ (1990), and followed with...
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Film Review: Life Reveals Itself Through Courses in ‘The Dinner’
CHICAGO– There is a peculiar and particular morality in the maneuverings of “The Dinner,” a multi-course meditation on how a tragic incident can split both opinion and family. Everything in the present...
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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 50 Pairs of Passes to ‘The Snowman’ With Michael...
CHICAGO– In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the new horror film “The Snowman” starring Michael Fassbender!“The Snowman,”...
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Film Review: Stellar Cast & Director Fail to Build ‘The Snowman’
CHICAGO– The biggest mystery in “The Snowman” is what in the world talented actors like Michael Fassbender, Chloe Sevigny, Toby Jones, and Val Kilmer are doing here in the first place. Fassbender’s...
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Film Review: 'The Dead Don't Die' Offers Full-On Horror Homage But Little Else
CHICAGO– Before Jordan Peele, before Mike Flanagan, before James Wan, and especially before all of Blumhouse, there were other masters of horror who paved the way for the filmmakers we know today. The...
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