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Film Review: Copy Cat Live Action ‘The Lion King’ Seems Unnecessary
CHICAGO– The latest tendency of Walt Disney Pictures to make live action remakes of their classic cartoons should have stopped at “Jungle Book” and “Beauty and the Beast.” The last three, “Dumbo,”...
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Film Review: ‘The Call of the Wild’ Offers Only Tame Adventure
CHICAGO– “The Call Of The Wild” is an old fashioned story with some expensive and unnecessary technological upgrades. Foregoing man’s best friend in reality, the film replaces the featured dog with an...
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Film Review: Fists of Feminism! On-Air Review of ‘Black Widow’
CHICAGO– Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on July 8th, 2021, reviewing the latest film in the Marvel Cinematic...
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On-Air Film Review: ‘Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers’ is a ‘90s Reunion
CHICAGO– Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on The Eddie Volkman Show with Hannah B on WSSR-FM (Star 96.7 Joliet, Illinois) on May 20th, 2022, reviewing the new release, “Chip ’n Dale:...
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On-Air Film Review: Thunder Struck by ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’
CHICAGO– Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on July 7th, reviewing “Thor: Love and Thunder,” the continuing Marvel...
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Audio Film Review: Chef’s Special of the Day in ‘The Menu’
CHICAGO– Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio film review for “The Menu,” featuring Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy in a social satire about a Chef and his unique multi-course meal plan, in...
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Film Review: Shrink Wrapped ‘Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania’
CHICAGO– Ant-Man gets supersized in this agreeable Marvel Studios movie, which pits our tiny hero against his most formidable foe yet. While the first two Ant-Man movies were largely comic detours...
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Film Review: Pocket Rocket in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’
CHICAGO– The Guardians of the Galaxy have lost some of their freshness over the years. They’re no long the scrappy obscurities who came out of nowhere to deliver one of the more idiosyncratic and...
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Film Review: Indy the Fifth! ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’
CHICAGO– By all accounts the Indiana Jones series had nowhere to go but up after the woebegone “Crystal Skull.” But “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” manages to clear that admittedly low bar to...
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On-Air Film Review: To Afterlife & Boo-yond in ‘Haunted Mansion’
CHICAGO– Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Dan Baker on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on July 28th, reviewing “Haunted Mansion,” another film based on a ride at...
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