Entertainment Columns
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Clever, engaging documentary a cinematic Bond marketFeb 16, 2023 5:00 am - “The Other Fellow” - ★ ★ ★ This title, as most ardent James Bond fans know, comes from a historical moment in 1969's “On Her Majesty's Secret Service” when one-time 007...
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Friday Pilots Club returns to Chicago with two new singles, Lincoln Hall showFeb 16, 2023 5:00 am - In the chorus of Friday Pilots Club's newest single, "Life Support," lead vocalist Caleb Hiltunen emphatically declares: "I don't need your life support. No, not anymore...
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Widescreen: AMC's tiered pricing could prove to be a Slippery Slope+Feb 15, 2023 10:00 pm - When I kept the social anxiety at bay long enough to see "Avatar: The Way of Water," I was greeted by loud, proud flatulence from the person sitting behind me. That was ...
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Boop-oop-a-doop: New Betty Boop musical premieres this fall in ChicagoFeb 13, 2023 10:00 pm - Grammy Award-winning composer/producer David Foster ("After the Love Has Gone," "Hard to Say I'm Sorry," "I Have Nothing") and Tony Award-winning choreographer Jerry Mit...
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Paramount's 'Into the Woods' beautiful to behold, marvelous to hearFeb 13, 2023 10:00 pm - “Into the Woods” - ★ ★ ★ ½ Once upon a time. With those words, Larry Yando's beaming Narrator welcomed Paramount Theatre's opening-night audience to “Into the Woods,” t...
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Ticket sales at an all-time high for 2023's Chicago Theatre WeekFeb 12, 2023 5:00 am - Record ticket sales to date for Chicago Theatre Week 2023 suggest that things may be looking up for suburban and city theaters still recovering from the COVID-19 pandemi...
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Buffalo Theatre's 'Andy Warhol's Tomato' a moving glimpse of artists connectingFeb 09, 2023 7:45 am - “Andy Warhol's Tomato” - ★ ★ ★ ½ There's nothing flashy about “Andy Warhol's Tomato,” Vince Melocchi's fictionalized account of the pop art master before he became famou...
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'Somebody' a dramatically flat story of rejected romance remorseFeb 09, 2023 5:00 am - “Somebody I Used to Know” - ★ ★ I really wanted to like the indie rom-com “Somebody I Used to Know,” but the longer its freight train of dramatically flat, passionless,...
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Widescreen: Billy Corgan's Highland Park cafe to host film festivalFeb 08, 2023 10:00 pm - Madame ZuZu's Plantbased Emporium, the versatile venue in Highland Park owned by Smashing Pumpkins superstar Billy Corgan, will add a film festival to its considerable o...
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Sound check: Don't snooze on Saturday's SNUZFEST; Bitter Jester applications are openFeb 08, 2023 5:00 am - SNÜZFEST 2023 Break out the PJs! SNÜZFEST is back this weekend with its annual punk-rock pajama party. This year's edition at Chicago's Beat Kitchen features some of the...