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Film Review: Charlize Theron in ‘Tully’ Turns Mom Into Martyr
CHICAGO– “Tully” is a deeply weird motherhood fantasy snuck inside the friendly-but-distancing screenwriting constructs of another pseudo ironic story by Diablo Cody. Charlize Theron plays Margo, a...
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Film Review: Uninspired Musical Story Isn’t Worth Telling in the Inspired-By...
CHICAGO– When I screened “Inside Llewyn Davis” from the Coen Bros. before it was nominated for two Oscars and praised by critics everywhere, I beefed to myself: Who is this musician? Why does his story...
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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 25 Pairs of Passes to ‘Ricki and the Flash’ With...
CHICAGO– In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 25 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the new music dramedy“Ricki and the Flash” starring Meryl Streep!“Ricki and...
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Film Review: Diablo Cody Loses Tone in Awful ‘Paradise’
CHICAGO– Diablo Cody’s directorial debut, “Paradise,” now available everywhere On Demand and released this Friday in some markets theatrically, is an unmitigated disaster. It’s the most tonally...
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Blu-ray Review: Flawed Satire ‘God Bless America’ Has Moments of Brilliance
CHICAGO– How does one attempt to review a picture that has a 5-star opening act, a 2-star finale and several flashes of brilliance amidst a middling midsection? Are the good parts worth savoring...
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Interview: Bobcat Goldthwait Shoots Idiocy in the Face in ‘God Bless America’
CHICAGO– Embarrassments both mortifying and tragic are viewed through a cathartically hilarious and disarmingly humanistic lens in the cinema of Bobcat Goldthwait. Over the last decade, the “Police...
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Blu-ray Review: Charlize Theron, Patton Oswalt Deliver in ‘Young Adult’
CHICAGO– Jason Reitman took more risks with “Young Adult” than any film in his career. The fact that those risks paid off with a film that’s ultimately less satisfying than “Juno” or “Up in the Air” is...
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Interview: ‘Young Adult’ Director Jason Reitman on Open-Ended, Non-Message...
CHICAGO– Instead of trying to fill giant shoes in the shadows of his legendary filmmaker father Ivan Reitman (“Ghostbusters”), Jason Reitman has been successfully blazing his own path of films without...
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Film Review: Jason Reitman, Diablo Cody Sway Us to Like the Unlikable in...
CHICAGO– Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron) isn’t a girl you’d Facebook like. She’s got one too many dark passengers, she’s a repugnant drunk, she likes too much pink, her white dog is too puffy and most...
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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 50 Pairs of Chicago Passes to ‘Young Adult’ With...
CHICAGO– In our latest dramedy edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 admit-two movie passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of “Young Adult” from the director of “Up in...
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TV Review: Torturous ‘Suburgatory’ Ineptly Imitates Diablo Cody
CHICAGO– ABC reaches a new low with “Suburgatory,” one of the least funny comedies of the fall TV season. It’s only appropriate that the pilot premieres after ABC’s other torturous suburban sitcom,...
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TV Review: ‘United States of Tara’ Offers Showcase For Toni Collette
CHICAGO– I’ve said for two seasons now that Showtime’s “United States of Tara” isn’t as good as it should be, partially because the writing and parts of the ensemble don’t live up to the Emmy-winning...
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DVD Review: Toni Collette, Diablo Cody Shine in ‘United States of Tara: The...
CHICAGO– It’s difficult to think of a role better suited for the chameleon-like abilities of Toni Collette than Tara Gregson, a devoted wife and mother struggling with dissociative identity disorder....
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TV Review: Toni Collette Continues to Shine on ‘United States of Tara’
CHICAGO– I personally think the show is slightly inferior to its hour-partner “Nurse Jackie,” but Toni Collette does such spectacular work on “United States of Tara” that her performance alone demands...
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Blu-Ray Review: Disappointing ‘Jennifer’s Body’ is Dead on Arrival
CHICAGO– When Quentin Tarantino sets out to write a World War II thriller set in Nazi-occupied France, he can’t help turning it into a hip commentary on war films. Similarly, when Diablo Cody sets out...
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‘Juno,’ ‘Jennifer’s Body’ Writer Diablo Cody Set to Adapt ‘Sweet Valley High’
LOSANGELES– “Sweet Valley High” filtered through Diablo Cody? That is exactly what Universal is doubling down on, in negotiations to pick up the rights to the long-running book series, with Cody...
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‘Jennifer’s Body’ a Bloody, Out-of-Body Dud For Oscar-Winning ‘Juno’ Scribe...
CHICAGO– For Oscar-winning “Juno” writer Diablo Cody, writing “Jennifer’s Body” with “Transformers” star Megan Fox and “Mamma Mia!” star Amanda Seyfried as the two lead women was as much of an...
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Slideshow: 10-Image Gallery For Diablo Cody’s ‘Jennifer’s Body’ With Megan Fox
Previous | Image 1 of 10 | NextAfter being possessed by a hungry demon, small town high school student Jennifer (Megan Fox) transitions from being high school evil - gorgeous (and doesnt she know it),...
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Two New Pictures of Megan Fox in Diablo Cody’s ‘Jennifer’s Body’
CHICAGO– On September 18th, Megan Fox, the star of “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” will star in a comedy/horror hybrid called “Jennifer’s Body” and we’ve got two new pics and the official poster...
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Toni Collette Shines on Intriguing ‘United States of Tara’
Television Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– Writer Diablo Cody, the Oscar-winning scribe of “Juno,” Executive Producer Steven Spielberg, and the Oscar-nominated actress Toni Collette have joined forces for the...
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