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Analysis: Second Season of AMC’s Hit Series ‘Mad Men’ the Easiest Sell on TV...
CHICAGO– Men in three-piece suits. Smoking and drinking throughout the day in your corner office. Womanizing and objectifying every woman in the secretarial pool. If AMC’s hit original series “Mad Men”...
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Blu-Ray Review: ‘Mad Men: Season Two’ Sets Standard For HD Television
CHICAGO– Television doesn’t get much better than “Mad Men” and the Blu-Ray release that brings home the second season, recently nominated for several Emmy Awards, is quite simply one of the best HDTV...
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Blu-Ray Review: Absolutely Awful ‘Did You Hear About the Morgans?’
CHICAGO– The title of “Did You Hear About the Morgans?” was almost too easy for critics considering how horrendous this alleged comedy ended up. Yeah, we heard it sucked and the new DVD and Blu-ray...
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Blu-Ray Review: Another Stellar Release For AMC’s ‘Mad Men’
CHICAGO– The third season of the highly acclaimed and award-winning “Mad Men” was recently released on Blu-ray and DVD courtesy of AMC and Lionsgate. Not only does TV simply not get much better than...
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Russell Brand, Jonah Hill Rock in Very Funny ‘Get Him to the Greek’
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– Taking a character who was created as an obnoxious supporting one and giving him his own spin-off movie sounds like a recipe for disaster. Despite generally liking its stars and...
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Blu-Ray Review: Very Funny ‘Get Him to the Greek’ With Jonah Hill
CHICAGO– Like a lot of comedies, “Get Him to the Greek,” now available on Blu-ray and DVD, actually plays better at home than it did in theaters. It doesn’t hurt that the Universal Blu-ray is a beauty,...
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Blu-Ray Review: ‘Green Lantern: Emerald Knights’ Explores DC Universe
CHICAGO– Superheroes may appear relatively sure-footed, but they are on shaky ground with modern audiences. The sense of awe evoked so effortlessly in Richard Donner’s 1978 classic “Superman” is...
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TV Review: AMC’s ‘Mad Men’ Shows No Signs of Creative Fatigue in Fifth Season...
CHICAGO– The long-awaited return of AMC’s four-time Emmy Best Drama winner “Mad Men” is finally here and there seems to be more doubt than ever before. Will the 17 months since a new episode hurt the...
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Slideshow: 21-Image Gallery For ‘The 64th Annual Emmy Awards’ Including Sofia...
Previous | Image 1 of 21 | NextCHICAGO– This 21-image slideshow contains a selection of red carpet images from “The 64th Annual Emmy Awards”. Celebrities snapped include Kat Dennings, Jimmy Fallon,...
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Blu-ray Review: Strong Release For Fifth Season of ‘Mad Men’
CHICAGO– It may feel like the bloom is off the rose a little bit for “Mad Men” as the AMC hit has seen some of its acclaim stolen by other cable hits like “Breaking Bad,” “Homeland,” and “The Walking...
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TV Review: Brilliant, Captivating ‘Top of the Lake’ with Elisabeth Moss
CHICAGO– Jane Campion’s “Top of the Lake,” premiering tonight on The Sundance Channel, is one of the best things you’ll watch on TV this year. It’s a stunning accomplishment that gets deeper, more...
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Interview: Director Walter Salles Takes Us ‘On the Road’
CHICAGO– One of most important counterculture novels in American literature history is “On the Road,” by Jack Kerouac. First published in 1957, the film rights were purchased at the time, but it took...
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Film Review: Visceral ‘On the Road’ Honors a Great American Novel
CHICAGO– The 1957 novel “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac, was a missile across the bow of American social conventions, and a precursor to the radical 1960s. For over fifty years, it has eluded a film...
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TV Review: Characters of ‘Mad Men’ Getting Lost in Changing World
CHICAGO– Don Draper (Jon Hamm) is no longer the most popular person in the room. Time, depression, alcoholism, and the changing politics have altered this character, once such a vital force of human...
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Interview: Jason Schwartzman Hears All in ‘Listen Up Philip’
CHICAGO– Jason Schwartzman likes to portray writers – he was one in his HBO series “Bored to Death” – and he portrays one in his latest film, “Listen Up Philip.” He also has played many characters in...
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Film Review: Elisabeth Moss Reigns Supreme in ‘Queen of Earth’
CHICAGO– Elisabeth Moss is the ‘Actor of Her Generation.’ She is a true chameleon, and can anchor a lead role while still expressing a twitch of consequence. The subject is depression in “Queen of...
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Film Review: Art & Real World Taken to Task in Angular ‘The Square’
CHICAGO– Recently, the record for highest bid ever on a work of art was shattered – $450 million for Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Salvador Mundi’ – and the ownership of a canvas, for the price of supporting a...
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Film Review: Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’ Gets Bogged Down in Conventionality
CHICAGO– Like his first film, “Get Out,” writer/director Jordan Peele creates a horror/thriller filled with symbolism and laughs. Unlike “Get Out,” “Us” is awash in overly concentrated plot points, a...
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Film Review: ‘The Kitchen’ is Once Upon a Time in New York City
CHICAGO– It’s the ladies turn to harken back to the badass 1970s, more precisely 1977 in Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of New York City. In an adaptation of a DC Vertigo comic series, “The Kitchen”...
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Film Review: ‘The Invisible Man’ is a True Heart Pounding Thriller
CHICAGO– When I think of “The Invisible Man” the first thing I think of is the special effects… and that’s largely what it’s been about … from Claude Raines initial portrayal of “The I Man” in the...
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