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Robert Downey Jr., Zach Galifianakis Are an Odd Pair in Funny ‘Due Date’
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– There is a strong temptation to lead this review with “Hey, ‘Due Date,’ ‘Planes, Trains and Automobiles’ just called, they want their plot back,” but this Robert Downey Jr. and...
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Danny McBride, James Franco Falter With Dreadful ‘Your Highness’
Rating: 1.5/5.0CHICAGO– “Your Highness” just makes me sad. Rarely have so many talented people been sucked into such an unfunny disaster as what will surely be one of the biggest disappointments of the...
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Jesse Eisenberg’s ‘30 Minutes or Less’ is Half Funny, Wholly Disappointing
Rating: 2.0/5.0CHICAGO– The new half-unfunny comedy “30 Minutes or Less” stands as a destructive come down for newly minted star Jesse Eisenberg following his high-profile role as Facebook founder Mark...
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‘This is the End’ Turns Stoner Fantasy Into Comedy
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– When David Gordon Green’s “Your Highness” hit fans of its writer/director and talented stars like a really bad pot hangover, its creators admitted that the project began life as...
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Unusual, Passionate ‘Aloha’ is Deeply Resonant
Rating: 4.0/5.0CHICAGO– Films with major movie stars that take real chances on story formula are rare. “Aloha” is one such example, and produces considerations that are way off the beaten path. Is it...
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Bill Murray Rolls Downhill in ‘Rock the Kasbah’
Rating: 1.5/5.0CHICAGO– What’s up with this movie? Everything in it is so wrong headed, despite movie star casting and a attempt toward “current events.” Setting itself in a modern and complex country...
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‘Sausage Party’ is a Hard R-Rated Raunchy Good Time
Rating: 4.0/5.0CHICAGO– First things first. Don’t let the fact this is animated fool you, “Sausage Party” is most decidedly, definitely, absolutely NOTFORCHILDREN. This is a hard R-rated Seth Rogen...
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‘Alien: Covenant’ is a Pale Copy of Previous Best Films
Rating: 2.0/5.0CHICAGO– It’s worth noting that the Alien series extends back nearly 40 years, and yet the chest-bursting Xenomorphs have produced a grand total of exactly two good movies. The orginal...
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Rebooted ‘Halloween’ Sequel Offers Nothing New in 2018
Rating: 2.0/5.0CHICAGO– At this point, the “Halloween” franchise is looking as tattered and tired as Michael Myers old William Shatner mask… fraying around the edges and on the verge of falling apart....
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Fam Bam! On-Air Review of ‘The Mitchells vs. The Machines’
Rating: 4.5/5.0CHICAGO– Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Dan Baker on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on April 29th, 2021, reviewing the new film “The Mitchells...
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