o Logan Center for the Arts on the campus of the University of Chicago co-hosted the first event with Sundance to be held in a city other than Park City, Utah. Sundance X Chicago began with the screening of the ...
Nicolas Cage stars in the first English language release of Oslo-born director Kristoffer Borgli (“Sick of Myself”), a black comedy called “Dream Scenario.” “Dream Scenario” is enjoyable, hilarious, original, and blackly comic, all while examining the idea of cancel ...
Office Christmas Party is out this week on Blu-ray and DVD and to help launch that, the great folks at Paramount decided to have a party to launch the home release of the film. The event took place on April ...
The Chicago Independent Film Critics Circle, a group who I am a co-founder of, held their first annual awards ceremony on January 8 in Chicago. It was a great evening mingling with my fellow group members and revealing the winners ...
There is a cool event taking place in Chicago this weekend. For those of you that don’t know, besides being a writer for The Movie Blog, I’m also one of the founders of the Chicago Independent Film Critics Circle (CIFCC). ...
Every year in late August the Wizard World Chicago Comic Con comes through the ‘Windy City’. Every year it seems to grow bigger and better. This years list of guest celebrities might have been the best ever at Wizard World ...
The world premiere of “Chi-Raq” started the promotional festivities for the film, and it all took place in Chicago. The press conference that followed the premiere featured the filmmakers and cast from the movie. The conference was held at the ...
Synopsis: A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago. (Imdb) [springboard type=”video” id=”1587963″ player=”tmbg001″ width=”599″ height=”336″ ] Spike Lee is taking on the Chicago violence, ...
Wizard World Chicago is upon us. One of the largest comic cons is taking over Chicago this weekend and I’m amped up about it. Starting Thursday afternoon celebs and fans will be invading the Donald E. Stephens convention center in ...
