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Production Begins on ‘Burn After Reading’ From Joel, Ethan Coen
On Aug. 30, 2007, I heard word that production has begun in New York City for Focus Features and Working Title Films on the film “Burn After Reading” from Joel and Ethan Coen.They are writing,...
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New York City Filming Report Surfaces For ‘Burn After Reading’ With Pitt,...
Following my Aug. 30, 2007 report on the Joel and Ethan Coen film “Burn After Reading,” a reader on Sunday wrote in with new filming details.They are shooting today (Sunday, Sept. 23) literally across...
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80th Academy Awards Headlined By ‘No Country For Old Men,’ ‘There Will Be...
CHICAGO– “No Country For Old Men,” “Juno,” “Once,” “Atonement,” “The Bourne Ultimatum,” “There Will Be Blood,” “Ratatouille,” “The Golden Compass,” “Elizabeth: The Golden Age,” “La Vie en Rose,”...
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Despite Stylistic Inconsistency, George Clooney’s ‘Leatherheads’ Feels Good
CHICAGO– George Clooney’s latest film, “Leatherheads,” brings light-hearted, screwball antics and slapstick blunders to the screen with a romantic tale that tells how professional football came to...
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Interview: Richard Jenkins on First Lead Role in ‘The Visitor,’ ‘Six Feet...
DeKALB, Ill. – Richard Jenkins is a familiar if not overly recognizable character actor. With his distinctly grave voice, he’s best known for his turn as the dead father in the seminal HBO series “Six...
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Blu-Ray Review: ‘Burn After Reading’ Hilarious Movie, Horrible Blu-Ray
CHICAGO– It’s impossible for a critic to thoroughly defend something he finds funny but fully realizes that a large majority of the audience may not. Sometimes a film just hits your funny bone in right...
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Blu-Ray Review: ‘No Country For Old Men’ Riveting in HD
Blu-Ray Rating: 4.5/5.0CHICAGO– Like most truly great films, “No Country For Old Men” gets better every time I see it. My most recent viewing, in pristine HD with the new Blu-Ray release, made me...
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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 50 ‘A Serious Man’ Chicago Passes to New Joel,...
CHICAGO– In our latest comedy/drama edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 admit-two passes up for grabs to the Chicago screening of the highly anticipated new film “A Serious Man”...
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‘A Serious Man’ Plays as Masterfully Fictionalized Autobiography For Joel,...
CHICAGO– “A Serious Man” isn’t the story of Joel and Ethan Coen’s lives. But you might not necessarily know it. While the brothers continue to turn their films into Hollywood gold, this 1967-set black...
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Blu-Ray Review: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen Direct Excellent ‘A Serious Man’
CHICAGO– One of the byproducts of expanding the Best Picture nominees has been that half of the most notable films of the year in the eyes of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are now...
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Film Review: Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon Ride the Lonely Plain of ‘True Grit’
CHICAGO– “True Grit” seems like the perfect project for Joel and Ethan Coen; something they had been working toward their entire career. Not only had they made what could be considered a modern Western...
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Blu-Ray Review: Zhang Yimou’s Odd ‘A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop’
CHICAGO– I could never quite get my finger on why the super-talented Zhang Yimou (“Hero,” “House of the Flying Daggers”) chose to make “A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop,” a loose remake of the film...
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Blu-Ray Review: Beloved ‘True Grit’ Remake in Bonus-Packed Edition
CHICAGO– With the highest domestic gross of the entire career of the beloved Coen brothers (over $170 million domestically, ranking #13 for 2010 releases) and an amazing ten Oscar nominations, “True...
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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 5 ‘The Big Lebowski’ Blu-Rays With Jeff Bridges,...
CHICAGO– In our latest comedy/crime/cult classic edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Blu-ray, we have 5 Blu-rays up for grabs to the highly anticipated home entertainment release of “The Big...
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Blu-Ray Review: ‘The Big Lebowski’ Really Ties Your Collection Together
CHICAGO– Most Coen brother releases on Blu-ray are going to cause a ripple through the film-loving community. Who doesn’t want to own “Fargo,” “Miller’s Crossing,” and even less-beloved films like “The...
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Blu-Ray Review: Coen Brothers Hit HD With Four of Their Best
CHICAGO– Few directors have ever kickstarted their career more confidently than Joel and Ethan Coen. And they did it with such an array of genre and subject matter from the gritty noir of “Blood...
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Blu-Ray Review: ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?,’ ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’
CHICAGO– Touchstone Pictures have reached into the vault and pulled out two of their modest hits, a pair of films with little in common other than studio and that they’re both around ten years old. For...
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Interview: Actor Oscar Isaac Goes Deep ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’
CHICAGO– One of more memorable performances of 2013 is from an actor who has been a bit under the radar – Oscar Isaac. After character parts in several familiar films, like “The Nativity Story,”...
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DVD Review: ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ Sings Again on DVD
CHICAGO– “Inside Llewyn Davis” shows the strength of the Coen brothers’ authorship, and the vitality their vision gives to different time periods, locations, and life experiences. This freewheelin’...
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Film Review: Dull Story of Extraordinary Survival in ‘Unbroken’
CHICAGO– Olympic runner, plane crash survivor, and WWIIPOW Louis Zamperini had an extraordinary life of defeating even more profound conditions from cruel nature and fellow man. His is a tale of...
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