In PART ONE of a Podtalk (from initial film release in 2021) with Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com, writer/director ...

CHICAGO – “Grave Expectations,” a short directed by Chicago-based filmmaker Larry Ziegelman, has been on an extended festival ...

Once again Tom Cruise has found a way to thread the needle and keep a long running franchise from getting stale. “Mission ...

CHICAGO – “Grave Expectations,” a short directed by Chicago-based filmmaker Larry Ziegelman, has been on an extended festival run.The quirky, funny literary-style story is a charming and ...

CHICAGO – The number of writers who have adapted and directed their own novels as films is a very small and elite club, and it includes writer/director Allison Burnett. His 2014 film, “Ask Me ...

CHICAGO – The hot rumor this week in the TV industry is that “Twin Peaks” show creators David Lynch and Mark Frost were talking up a revival of that unforgettable cult TV show of the early ...

CHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Josh Westcott for WBGR - FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on May 29th, 2025, reviewing the new sequel “Karate Kid: Legends,” ...

CHICAGO – The Lincoln Park Room (LPR Studios) is fast becoming one of the finest “one stop shop” for marketing, advertising and audio/video production. The agency also hosts the monthly Oz ...

“Slumdog Millionaire” and “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” won the two Best Picture awards, with the former taking away the most Golden Globes overall with four. The Hollywood Foreign Press ...

CHICAGO – Emma Roberts as “Nancy Drew” is nice but nobody’s fool. In playing the iconic character from books that span back decades, though, the film sends our teenage generation a ...

CHICAGO – With immigrant myths and suspicion of the “other” at new heights in the American landscape, the timing of the World Premiere “The Cave” is timed right. Sadieh Rifai’s new ...

CHICAGO - The original vampire is coming back again, in theatres only this Christmas. The 1922 silent German vampire film “Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror” will be reimagined by writer ...